Seattle – Jewish leaders in Washington state called on Tuesday for the resignation of a National Rifle Association lobbyist over comments in which he compared the push for stricter gun control regulations to the policies of Nazi Germany.
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Brian Judy, an NRA senior state lobbyist based in California, made the remark while addressing opponents of a proposed Washington state law that would require all gun buyers to undergo background checks before buying guns from a store, gun show or online.
“Any Jewish people I meet who are anti-gun, I think, are you serious?” Judy said in recorded comments made last week at a gathering in Silverdale, Washington, and posted on YouTube.
“Do you not remember what happened? And why did that happen? Because they registered their guns and then they (the Nazis) took them,” he added.
Jewish leaders in Seattle called for Judy’s resignation and slammed any suggestion the Holocaust could have been avoided had Jews been armed.
“It is deeply offensive for anyone to suggest that Jewish supporters of gun violence prevention have ‘forgotten’ the history of our people,” the Jewish Federation for Greater Seattle said in a statement.
“To repeat the out-of-touch falsehood linking gun violence prevention to Nazi Germany and the Holocaust is not only an ignorant distortion but is exceedingly dangerous,” the statement said.
Judy did not immediately return a call seeking comment, and the NRA did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment.
Washington is one of several states that have moved to tighten gun control laws after a spate of high-profile school shootings, including the 2012 massacre of 26 people in an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut.
In the months after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the U.S. Congress defeated an effort by President Barack Obama to restrict sales of certain types of guns and require greater background checks at the national level.
The NRA has made a concerted effort to defeat Washington’s proposed universal background check initiative. The powerful gun rights group says the legislation infringes on the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.
The first thing Hitler did was take away private gun ownership like any true dictator
I don’t understand what they are Jewish establishment is so upset, she is 100% correct. Every repressive regime wants to know where the civilian arms are. Once they know who armed themselves they can easily confiscate them at their own whim. If you study the Pogroms of 1881 -1921 you will see the first thing the government did was confiscate the arms the Jews had. They used the argument “we want to avoid violence.. turn in your arms or go to jail”. Once they took the guns away the Jews were helpless. As the violence broke out, for the 3 days the locals did to you – your parents – your wife and daughters….what ever was just in their eyes. You had to stand by and watch H”R. If the authorities did not join in, they looked the other way. Sure we cannot fight off an army or a police force, but we can at least have a fighting chance with the hooligans.
This that our gov’t want “checks” and “registration” is only to know where the arms are. To prove my point – after they check if the guy is a “nut” or “dangerous” why won’t they purge the records. Why is it, that any left wing paper can get hold of the names of all gun owners and publish it in the papers? Ha’maven Y’ovin
My father a”h lived in Galicia Poland in 1939. His first contact with German soldiers was when they searched his house. They didn’t take anything. They only were looking for guns.
They looked at all houses, Jew and gentile alike. There were no lists – they looked at all the houses.
The British army on Dunkirk had guns. They were trained and organized to use those guns – and tanks. Yet in spite of what the NRA seems to be saying, the Germans weren’t stopped by all those British guns.
Every Jew that has the ability should get armed and buy lots of ammunition. You”ll thank me later.
These Jewish leaders in Washington are representatives of the liberal left, not the people reading this artical on VIN. If every Jew was armed the Nazi’s would have no power over us. How can anyone argue against that?
#2 ,
Why are you lying or sprouting lies ? Many many jews own guns and every gun owner I know is close to jews.
My non jewish redneck buddies are the ones that taught me to shoot saying that never again without owning a gun is empty words.
Yes if jews were armed, not only would the holocaust have been minimized but so would have allied losses in WW2.
Why ? #4 states that the british at dunkirk could not stop the germans with guns. but jews fighting for their lives could have wrecked havoc.
All too often a group of jews were rounded up by a few armed germans, had just 1 in 50 jews been armed, they could have shot the germans, seized their guns and fought.
Why didt they? most jews in europe did not know how to shoot and VERY few had a gun.
As I recall, the Germans had tanks and planes and made short work of the armies of Poland, Holland, Belgium, France, etc, all of which had military armaments and training. As survivors have correctly pointed out, having a gun would have done nothing to help Jews surrounded by neighbors who gladly betrayed them to the Germans. How long do you seriously think an armed individual can hold off an army while living amongst enemies? Ask Hamas how a rifle matches up to a bomb. The NRA is a lobbying organization for the weapons manufacturers and their goal is to sell as much product as possible. Fearmongering is one of their tools of trade and it is unfortunate to see how many people have bought into this mentality.