Washington – Continuing the controversial stance he has taken on gun control, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson is now suggesting that the number of Jewish Holocaust victims may have been lessened if the Jewish prisoners had been armed with weapons.
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According to ABC News (http://abcn.ws/1LCpA8I), Carson made his comments during on an interview on CNN where he was asked about statements in his book, “A Perfect Union,” wherein he writes “through a combination of removing guns and disseminating propaganda, the Nazis were able to carry out their evil intentions with relatively little resistance.”
A CNN reporter asked him to clarify his remarks, saying, “But to just to clarify, if there had been no gun control laws in Europe at that time, would 6 million Jews have been slaughtered?” to which Carson responded, “I think the likelihood of Hitler being able to accomplish his goals would have been greatly diminished if the people had been armed. I’m telling you there is a reason these dictatorial people take guns first.”
Calling his comments “historically inaccurate,” the Anti-Defamation League was quick to condemn Carson. “Ben Carson has a right to his views on gun control, but the notion that Hitler’s gun control policy contributed to the Holocaust is historically inaccurate,” said National Director Jonathan Greenblatt. “The small number of personal firearms available to Germany’s Jews in 1938 could in no way have stopped the totalitarian power of the Nazi German State.”
This ignorant bum has trivialized the 6 million martyrs and turned their suffering into a random campaign issue. As attested to by all the street violence in Germany between 1919-1933, guns were readily available. And from 1933-1945, every thug in the 3rd reich could get a gun. His ridiculous assertion that Americans need to be armed to the teeth to prevent a Holocaust here is grounds for his being kicked out as a serious candidate.
There is NOTHING wrong with his point. If you have an issue with it, READ IT SLOWER!!!
In essence he is saying that if people in Germany didn’t have their guns confiscated, perhaps as hitler yemach sh’mo was gaining power the people could have used those guns to rise up against the regime.
NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT!!!
he has a point but then again giving europe guns would have meant jews being killed off even earlier!!!
A Trump – Carson ticket would be awesome. Can’t be worse than an Obama & Biden presidency.
Greenblatt and his predecessor, Foxman, have been shills for the Democrats for many years. Believe me, they wouldn’t scrutinize one of their party in the same way.
It took 7 years of the Combined Army’s of the USA, Russia etc with thousands of Fighter Planes, Tens of thousand of Tanks and Millions of Well armed Soldiers to stop Hitler. This Meshugeneh Antisemite claims that we Yidden spread over dozens of countries could have saved ourselves with some guns.
CARSON is SO SO SO right.
I am a child of survivors.
The survivors were ridiculed after the war; why they went like sheep to their slaughter?
Their only answer was ” WE HAD NO ARMS”.
Hitler used minimal manpower to subdue millions; just because he knew that there can not be resistance without arms in the hand of the Jews.
In fact, those Jews who had arms joined the partisans and did in fact slow Hitler down, and were instrumental in the defeat of Hitler.
Arms were dropped to the partisans in the woods; but not to the Jews in the ghettos or before.