Allen, I didn’t rebut my own argument. I was responding to “Because, in the early stages and prior to the war, Hitler and others decided that the people needed to be disarmed “for their own safety.” It wasn’t the early stages. It was a year before WWII started. And it didn’t apply in Austria, yet Austria was annexed, even though they had guns. The Czechs had guns, yet in Sudetenland that didn’t matter. As did Hungary and Poland. My point was, and it remains, claiming that Hitler took the guns and then everything else happened is simply inconsistent with history. It didn’t happen that way. And as with most anti-gun control rhetoric, using gun control in Germany as pertinent history to bolster anti-gun policy here is not only counter-factual, it’s disingenuous.
