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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBen Carson, future Pres/VP nominee, says armed Jews could have stopped Holocaust
Don't tell me he's too crazy to be their nominee. This time around, the crazies will be running the show.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ben-carson-suggests-holocaust-jews-armed/story?id=34349693
In Carson's new book A Perfect Union, Carson writes that through a combination of removing guns and disseminating propaganda, the Nazis were able to carry out their evil intentions with relatively little resistance.
On CNN, Carson was asked: "But just to clarify, if there had been no gun control laws in Europe at that time, would 6 million Jews have been slaughtered?"
In response, the candidate suggested that Hitler may not have been as effective in carrying out his plot if the victims were armed.
I think the likelihood of Hitler being able to accomplish his goals would have been greatly diminished if the people had been armed, Carson said. Im tell you there is a reason these dictatorial people take guns first."
hollysmom
(5,946 posts)Mike Nelson
(9,942 posts)...the Republicans believe the Jewish people are irresponsible for not carrying guns.
underpants
(182,585 posts)They can't kill all of us"
Paraphrasing his statement on what he would have done at Umpqua Community College.
pnwmom
(108,955 posts)Ben holding left hand up using right hand to point at someone beside signaling "shoot him"
Very well done pmwmom
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)irisblue
(32,917 posts)I hope he knows more then 6 million humans died during that time.
mfcorey1
(11,001 posts)HassleCat
(6,409 posts)When you find yourself deep in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.
bklyncowgirl
(7,960 posts)It's a matter of faith in conservative circles and bridges the Christians, the gun nuts & the neocons.
blogslut
(37,981 posts)I don't know if it's psychological or physiological but whatever it is, it's clinical.
struggle4progress
(118,214 posts)Punkingal
(9,522 posts)I can't believe people like this guy.
underpants
(182,585 posts)Trust me, he is
They are ruining themselves to get the nomination
Punkingal
(9,522 posts)Scary to think about this bizarre world we are living in.
lancer78
(1,495 posts)a bolt action hunting rifle would have done a lot of damage to this.
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_II&h=1944&w=2592&tbnid=z6a8CwnYq97QqM:&docid=Tzbn0TQ_Ioe_XM&ei=oeMWVszqOsH9ggT4vaOQBQ&tbm=isch&ved=0CDcQMygBMAFqFQoTCIy_mJfss8gCFcG-gAod-N4IUg
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,145 posts)tishaLA
(14,176 posts)suggesting Jews could have shot their way out of Hitler's hate machine just has to be a bridge too far even for the teanuts.
pnwmom
(108,955 posts)Like Trump's did when he started trumpeting about Mexicans being rapists and murderers.
tishaLA
(14,176 posts)will appreciate that kind of comment, Remember: Jews as a concept, like Israel as a concept, are sacrosanct to the party. They hate individual Jews with greater acrimony than anyone else can muster--in fact, their favorite targets are liberal Jews, whether in the guise of Soros or Streisand--but the idea of Jewish victimization (or perhaps a better term is "disempowerment" , especially as it relates to the relationship between the Holocaust and Zionism, is totemic to them.
pnwmom
(108,955 posts)about Jewish victimization with the thought that they helped contribute to it by not carrying.
But time will tell.
SwankyXomb
(2,030 posts)to fuel their End Times fantasies.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)spanone
(135,781 posts)Mendocino
(7,480 posts)open mouth, say something stupid, repeat.
Johonny
(20,817 posts)would there have been a holocaust? You hear historians argue that a lot. Because if they had Hitler would not have been able to do much militarily in Europe. Instead the allies laid off enforcing arms control and well... WWII happened. But hey Ben Carson is entitled to display his full stupid. Ben's argument is popular only in NRA fan fiction forums.
PatrickforO
(14,558 posts)Belgium, Holland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Belorus, Ukraine, Russia, Khazakstan, Uzbekistan - they all had guns. America had guns.
But 50 million people still died, because Germany had guns.
What a jerk.
MillennialDem
(2,367 posts)dflprincess
(28,071 posts)what it took the combined land, sea, and air forces of the Allies nearly 6 years to do.
How did this guy get through high school, much less medical school?
Ilsa
(61,690 posts)My understanding was that Jews were prohibited from acquiring firearms.
Carson's comment doesn't hold water.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)There was strict gun control under Weimar but hitler loosened those restrictions - except for the Jews. What would have been much more helpful for the Jews (and many other victims) would have been if the Christians of Poland, France, Italy and everywhere else the Germans conquered didn't round up their Jews and hand them to hitler on a silver platter. THAT would have been a lot more helpful than a few armed Jews. Carson's a fucking asshole.
left on green only
(1,484 posts).........must lead to his realization that if only the African tribes at the beginning of the 18th century had been armed with guns, that he would today be in Africa, and out of our hair.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)could stop a Tiger tank in its tracks. SMH
Just keep telling your self....this man is a BRAIN SURGEON!
See what republicanism does to you?
MillennialDem
(2,367 posts)go through a Panzer I and Panzer II with a shot in the rear).
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)in ww2, don't know what caliber they were.
I think they were only effective against the first panzers.
6chars
(3,967 posts)there are so many ways it doesn't make sense, i don't have time to think of them all. this is stranger than the evolution stuff. when the right wing fundamentalists bring up the holocaust, they seem to show a distinct tone-deafness. huckabee did this not long ago.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)What a quackadoo
Bernblu
(441 posts)MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)among a car full of obnoxious scum bags. He' perfected the art of stupid to perfection. c
RockaFowler
(7,429 posts)This man is now calling all of the Jew who were murdered during the Holocaust cowards.
Oh and if I see that horrible meme going around about how Hitler took away guns and see what happened - I'm gonna scream. Read history you moronic fools. Nobody wants your guns. The NRA is lying to you and you fall for it hook line and sinker. What a bunch of fools
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)It is deeply ignorant of the history of the Holocaust, of course, but just as when they make arguments about shootings in American cities, they really don't care about the actual people or ethics involved. They care only about their precious guns. They're disgusting pigs not worthy of conversation.