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Old January 5, 2013, 06:45 PM   #1
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Why don't we just say it plainly? (Armed people don't get massacred)

I've always been interested in WW2. The documentaries about the civilian massacres are just impossibly sad. I've watched a couple lately and had the thought...

"If every adult male Jew had a rifle, it wouldn't have happened."

I know there were centuries of conditioning and a gradual reduction in rights and nothing is simple but really our response to the gun grabbers needs to include the very accurate and honest observation that we need to have the means to defend ourselves from criminals but also from a hostile government.

I just can't fathom how anyone who knows even a minimal amount of history would willingly give up the right to arms or restrict others right to arms. The only reason I can understand and it is terrifying is that "they" view us as the "other" much as the NAZIs viewed the Jews.
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Old January 5, 2013, 07:27 PM   #2
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Because that would be too easy.

If and when America has another civil war, it's not going to be pretty. The odds are stacked against the citizens very much so this time. Before, the citizenry were on equal ground equipment-wise with government forces. With modern technology and tactics that are available to the military today...it'll be very rough and perhaps impossible to win against them.
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Old January 5, 2013, 07:28 PM   #3
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Wrong!...

Your premise is wrong. Armed citizens & sworn LE officers get shot or killed all the time.
An armed off duty police officer(with over 20 years service) was killed in a ATM robbery.
No one, even a armed citizen has a absolute ability to survive a lethal force event.

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Old January 5, 2013, 07:45 PM   #4
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If every adult male Jew had a rifle, it wouldn't have happened."
You think that the Germain army. The same army that overrun most of Europe and needed the combined forces of of America Russia and the UK to defeat. Would not of being able to carry out the extermination of the jewis if they were armed are delusional. It might of made it more difficult but it wont of stopped it. PS If people are reading this that haven't a view one way or the other on gun control. They will be thinking if this is the views of the pro gun lobby then then they maybe gun control is not a bad idea. Like the one bellow for example.

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If and when America has another civil war, it's not going to be pretty. The odds are stacked against the citizens very much so this time.
There havant and might not be any further gun controls. I am reading on forums about extermination-civil wars-conspiracies. I think some are getting a bit carried away.

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Old January 5, 2013, 08:05 PM   #5
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Gee Clyde, ya think ya totally missed the point on that one amigo?

Armed people have a better chance of survival.
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Old January 5, 2013, 08:15 PM   #6
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Old January 5, 2013, 08:17 PM   #7
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Don't appreciate being called delusional.

The German regular army didn't handle the systematic killing of the Jews. (They of course played their part and did kill many Jews and members of other groups.)

If the oppressed peoples of Europe had even the most basic of arms, yes they would have been able to defend themselves and inflict serious damage to the various NAZI and local elements that persecuted and massacred them. If they were able to put up a fight that would have essentially been another front for the regular army to fight on and they would have had smaller forces with which to combat the Allied power.
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Old January 5, 2013, 08:33 PM   #8
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Uncounted generations of serfdom in Europe has formed a mindset that a mere century or two of freedom has yet to overcome.

The founding of America was an entirely unique event in the annuals of history.

It is not only unfair to compare the two cultures, it is a comparison of apples and oranges.

ETA: so it is delusional to think that had the people of Europe been armed (as are many Americans), that the result would have been different. The two mindsets are too far apart.
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Old January 5, 2013, 09:12 PM   #9
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Uncounted generations of serfdom in Europe has formed a mindset that a mere century or two of freedom has yet to overcome.

The founding of America was an entirely unique event in the annuals of history.

It is not only unfair to compare the two cultures, it is a comparison of apples and oranges.

ETA: so it is delusional to think that had the people of Europe been armed (as are many Americans), that the result would have been different. The two
mindsets are too far apart.

I acknowledged the above with

"I know there were centuries of conditioning..."

minus the second class citizen conditioning + arms = a different outcome
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Old January 6, 2013, 12:33 AM   #10
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Here's a fairly recent example of what a genocide looks like. I'll stay armed, thank you, it seems to increase the odds of survival considerably!

http://www.ppu.org.uk/genocide/g_rwanda1.html
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Old January 6, 2013, 01:41 AM   #11
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Armed citizens & sworn LE officers get shot or killed all the time.
A police officer being killed is a pretty rare thing. A civilian is more likely to be murdered than a police officer shot and killed ILoD.
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Old January 6, 2013, 07:39 AM   #12
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A civilian is more likely to be murdered than a police officer shot and killed ILoD
There are a few more civilians than police. So you would expect more civilians to be shot.
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Old January 6, 2013, 07:46 AM   #13
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If the oppressed peoples of Europe had even the most basic of arms, yes they would have been able to defend themselves and inflict serious damage to the various NAZI and local elements that persecuted and massacred them. If they were able to put up a fight that would have essentially been another front for the regular army to fight on and they would have had smaller forces with which to combat the Allied power.
You have to remember that armies some numbered in the millions couldn't stop the Germain army. So how some armed civilians would have stoped them doesn't make sense.
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Old January 6, 2013, 08:08 AM   #14
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Jews were never serfs. Just ask one. And by the way, ever heard of the Warsaw uprising?
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Old January 6, 2013, 08:09 AM   #15
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And yet somehow, comparatively small numbers of enemy combatants have given the Us military no end of trouble in Afghanistan and Iraq. Don't underestimate the capabilities of a dedicated insurgency. The Greek resistance turns out to have had a rather major effect on Nazi operations in WW2.
Not that I think such a thing is likely to occur anytime in the foreseeable future in the US, but it pays to look to the future.
It is important to remember civil wars and insurgencies tend to be hell of allot less lethal than genocides. And genocides tend not to occur when a significant percentage of the population is armed. Again, I seriously disagree with the conspiracy types who think that is eminent, but the last couple centuries saw a ton of death by overly controlling governments. It's not crazy to expect that it could possibly happen again sometime in the next couple centuries. Obviously, it is better to avoid such things by participating in discourse and paying attention to politics, but that doesn't always work. I'm thinking that most of the people who were murdered in Germany, Cambodia, Rwanda, the Soviet union, and many more besides, would have preferred, in retrospect, to have had even the slightest chance to avoid their fate.

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Old January 6, 2013, 08:25 AM   #16
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And yet somehow, comparatively small numbers of enemy combatants have given the Us military no end of trouble in Afghanistan and Iraq. Don't underestimate the capabilities of a dedicated insurgency. The Greek resistance turns out to have had a rather major effect on Nazi operations in WW2
The resistance fighters were a inconvenience to the Germain's during ww2. They did not effect the finial outcome of the war one way or the other.

As for the extermination of the Jews the germans were not stupid they didn't say to the people get on that train we are taking you to be killed. They were told they were being relocated or going to work etc to stop resistance. Later in the war when people new what was happening they did resist. The Warsaw uprising for example. But even that was just a minor inconvenience for the Germain's. Yes people being armed would have given them a chance to resist and allowed some to escape. But it woldent of stoped the extermination of the european Jews.
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Old January 6, 2013, 09:13 AM   #17
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Armed people of course can get killed but the point is they at least have something to fight back with...
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Old January 6, 2013, 10:34 AM   #18
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Of course there was resistance. Of course the Warsaw uprising is told about in basic histories.

I addressed that I know they incrementally had their rights reduced. I'm not saying no massacres or atrocities wouldn't have occurred but it wouldn't have been on the levels that we know today and if the Germans pulled huge quantities of their front line troops to do battle with the armed Jews the war would have ended sooner and would again result in far less deaths.
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Old January 6, 2013, 10:47 AM   #19
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And as it turns out, the Greek resistance did have the effect of delaying resources otherwise meant for the front, which delayed the german attack until winter, which allowed Russia more time to prepare... Also it was winter...
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Armed people of course can get killed but the point is they at least have something to fight back with...
Better to die like men than like sheep.

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Old January 6, 2013, 11:32 AM   #21
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The Yugoslav resistance was significant as was partisan activity in Russia.

The Warsaw ghetto resistance was not by an armed populace but by a few weakly armed but brave folks.

That is quite different from hundreds of thousand of potentially armed folks.

Manta, you cannot prove your counterfactual in any sense. Historical research indicates that genocides do not happen to populations that can defend themselves. You might get civil wars which is a different story.

The idea of the armed populace is to short circuit the idea of an easy round up and genocide. If the Germans thought that they would have to fight a significant civil war in their own territory before invading France and Russia - that would probably impact planning. You have no idea how that would have played out.
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Old January 6, 2013, 12:51 PM   #22
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I Like It!

IIRC, the Pink Pistols' motto is, "Armed gays don't get bashed."
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If the Germans thought that they would have to fight a significant civil war in their own territory before invading France and Russia - that would probably impact planning. You have no idea how that would have played out.
If you want to believe that fair enough. The Nazi party had near total control over every aspect of German life. And mostly supported by the population at the time. Most had unquestioned loyalty to Hitler the children were brainwashed at school. Thinking that if the Jews were armed would have made any difference to their fate i think is wrong the below statement is what i was replying to.

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If every adult male Jew had a rifle, it wouldn't have happened.
There has not being any further gun control after the shooting incident in America and might not be. Do people really think that this is some big conspiracy to disarm Americans and than carry out some sort of genocide or control the population. I have seen similar posts on other forums but didn't expect to see them in this forum.
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The resistance fighters were a inconvenience to the Germain's during ww2. They did not effect the finial outcome of the war one way or the other.
In Norway, the resistance worked alongside SOE to carry out Operations Grouse, Freshman, and Gunnerside which may have very well prevented the Nazi's from building an atomic bomb.

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The Nazi party had near total control over every aspect of German life. And mostly supported by the population at the time. Most had unquestioned loyalty to Hitler the children were brainwashed at school. Thinking that if the Jews were armed would have made any difference to their fate i think is wrong the below statement is what i was replying to.
Loyalty to a leader only runs so far. By the time the war ended, Hitler had created enough hardship for the German people that there was more than one attempt on his life. A more effective resistance movement, especially within Germany itself, would have only increased and accelerated the cost and hardship upon the German people and thus eroded Hitler's support more quickly. The key to a successful resistance movement is not to break the army or the leader, but the will of the people supporting them.
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There are a few more civilians than police. So you would expect more civilians to be shot.
As a percentage and rate of incidence, not raw numbers.
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