On Fox News—where else?—Andrew Napolitano, a senior judicial
analyst, said on Jan. 10, “If the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto had had the
firepower and the ammunition that the Nazis did, some of Poland might have
stayed free and more persons would have survived the Holocaust.”Anthony Polonsky, a professor of Holocaust
studies at Brandeis University, questions another comparison of the 1943 Warsaw
Ghetto Uprising, in which about 750 Jews took up arms, killed about 25 Nazis
and briefly slowed the deportation of Jews to concentration camps.
Polonsky admits in a Religious Newsarticleby Lauren Markoe that “this uprising was the largest single
Jewish revolt against the Nazis. But the Nazis killed thousands of Jews in the
Warsaw ghetto, and the 50,000 who survived were sent to concentration camps.”Polonsky added, “The people who participated
in it were killed.”More comparisons by
gun rights advocates over the years have used the Russian pogroms from the
early 20th century and also the American slavery movement after the
Civil War.
Others have joined the chorus of lunatics, one such was John
Rocker, former major league pitcher who wrote on WorldNetDaily.com about “the
undeniable fact that the Holocaust would never have taken place had the Jewish
citizenry of Hitler’s Germany had the right to bear arms and defend themselves
with those arms.”Rocker was also accused
of being racist, homophobic, and sexist for comments he made about New
York.And then Jonathan E. Grant railed
on about pro-gun control Jews using the Holocaust once again.
Cartoon video of NRA gun nut blasted on Holocaust theory:
There were others like Tea Party backed Samuel Wurzelbacher,
“Joe the Plumber,” who related, “In 1939 Germany established gun control; from
1939 to 1945 6 million Jews, 7 million others, unable to defend themselves,
were exterminated.”And once again,
Wurzelbacher is the same one who proposed in Prescott, AZ, that we should start
shooting at the border to prevent illegal immigration.All loosely connected (LaPierre, Napolitano,
Rocker and Wurzelbacher) but each an extremist in his own way, and a threat to sanity.
On Piers Morgan Tonight, conspiracy peddler Alex Jones
ranted on about how "Hitler took the guns, Stalin took the guns, Mao took
the guns, Fidel Castro took the guns, Hugo Chávez took the guns, and I'm here
to tell you, 1776 will commence again if you try to take our firearms.”The “Hitler” approach dates back to “when
opponents of a Chicago proposal to ban handguns invoked it in the largely
Jewish suburb of Skokie by "reminding village residents that the Nazis
disarmed the Jews as a preliminary to sending them to the gas chambers.”
A new pro-gun group called Jews for the Preservation of
Firearms Ownership in 1989 began arguing that the 1968 federal gun control bill
once favored by the NRA's old guard "was lifted, almost in its entirety,
from Nazi legislation."It wasn’t.And then in 1994 JPFO founder Aaron Zelman
called on the NRA to take a shot at the alleged connection between gun control
and the Holocaust.Zelman made his case
which you can read in a Mother Jones articleby
Gavin Aronsen.Aronsen isn’t sure Zelman’s
plea helped but comments:
“Whether or not the NRA was
influenced by his advice, that same year its CEO, Wayne LaPierre, published
Guns, Crime, and Freedom, in which he claimed, ‘In Germany, firearm registration
helped lead to the holocaust,’ leaving citizens ‘defenseless against tyranny
and the wanton slaughter of a whole segment of its population.’”The following year, President George H.W.
Bush famously resigned from the NRA after LaPierre attacked federal law
enforcement officials as ‘jack-booted government thugs’ who wore ‘Nazi bucket
helmets and black storm trooper uniforms.’”
Whatever conclusions one might draw from these
conspiracy theories, it is clear they all originate within a sick gun culture with
Wayne LaPierre and his band of gun worshippers always at the root of the
problem.Unless we get rid of wacky
Wayne and his gang of gun nuts, mass shootings will continue, daily shootings
will blossom even further with more and more guns on the street, and Americans
will be forced to endure the tragedy of gun violence.How many more little children ages 6 and 7
must be massacred to make this point clear?