Guardian UK: Republican tells gun debate Holocaust happened because Jews weren't armed - Alaska Republican and most senior member of the House cites atrocity during public debate to argue in favour of arming teachers
"How many Jews were put into the ovens because they were unarmed?”
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Oh IC the European JEWS are responsible for their own murders because they didn't arm themselves?( A popular trope on the far right by the way.) Does this asshole have any idea of how obnoxious and condescending that is to Jewish people in general and to the memory of the millions of Holocaust victims? No, he doesn't and neither does he care. In this Worldview African Slaves were also responsible for being Slaves because they didn't arm themselves as well. I mean didn't the Amistad prove that? Oh, right I forgot the Warsaw Ghetto as well and Spartacus. Of course, these brave examples of Slave revolts and rebellions by a few against enormous odds are as rare as hounds teeth in human history and certainly NOT the norm. This jerk doesn't care because the NRA owns him and most of the rest of the soulless GOP.
It's offensive in an array of ways. One way - it[s absurd beyond belief that someone could suggest that some armed citizens could defeat the German army. This is what he is essentially saying. All you need is a few good armed people and any old rag tag national military will go down. He probably thinks he and his good old boys could take out the US Army. It's just plain nuts, it's macho bullshit nut talk.
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