Jim S.'s use of the term "Gestapo" is a service to their memory because it may prevent the same thing happening again.
I would have thought that you, as someone ostensibly sensitive to the plight of the millions who died in concentration camps, would prefer we NEVER forget the actions of the storm troopers. Maybe you should take your complaint to the History Channel for running the Nazi atrocities over and over.
For heaven's sake, it is government that commits mass violence on humanity! Be it King, President, Czar or Third Reich! For only the sovereign has the coercive legal power to do so.
By that same token, I am astonished that Jews and others sensitive to the Holocaust are not the biggest 2nd Amendment supporters in this country. If the Jewish population were not disarmed in Germany and Poland, perhaps the Jews could have saved themselves. But, alas, the German Jews trusted their government to do the right thing.
I have asked my Jewish friends this very 2nd amendment question and have yet to have a convincing response.
Those who forget the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it. Your sensitivity to Jim's use of the term Gestapo is an emotional response and wrongheaded. If you don't see the germ of the same state violence against its citizens here, then you are not being honest, IMO.
So, please, spare us on this thread at least the apologia for the altruism of government and stop wearing your PC feelings on your sleeve.
Daniel |
