What’s good for everything that ails you? Firepower

What’s good for everything that ails you? Firepower

by digby

What most depressing about this dishonest drivel is the fact that a whole lot of people believe it. In fact, it’s been a huge talking point on the right for a very long time.

It is, of course, nonsense.The gun control laws existed before the Nazis and the Nazis simply exempted themselves from the laws. Perhaps Joe the plumber doesn’t know that the Nazis were popular and most of the people who would have had guns would have been on their side. (Plus the SS, the Wehrmacht, and the Luftwaffe were very well armed, as you probably know.) But then neither did Condoleeza Rice who famously said that the US had liberated the Germans from Hitler.

But hey, if only the European Jews had privately owned some airplanes and bombs and tanks and such, they could have fought them all off, I’m sure. We should all start stocking up.

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