Ben Carson, future Pres/VP nominee, says armed Jews could have stopped Holocaust

[pnwmom]

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. “I’m tell you there is a reason these dictatorial people take guns first."

[hollysmom]

1. Time for Ben to fall in the pools, I mean Polls. who will replace him?

[Mike Nelson]

2. I guess...

...the Republicans believe the Jewish people are irresponsible for not carrying guns.

[underpants]

5. Yeah if Ben had been there he would have said "Hey guys! Let's attack.

They can't kill all of us"

Paraphrasing his statement on what he would have done at Umpqua Community College.

[pnwmom]

7. No, he would have said, "I believe you want the rabbi."

[underpants]

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Ben holding left hand up using right hand to point at someone beside signaling "shoot him"

Very well done pmwmom

[KamaAina]

3. Are you sure that isn't from The Onion?

[irisblue]

4. does he know there were more then Jews the Nazis targated?

I hope he knows more then 6 million humans died during that time.

[mfcorey1]

6. Full of ignorant comments!

[HassleCat]

8. A cliche' for Ben Carson

When you find yourself deep in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.

[bklyncowgirl]

9. Ben Carson must be on my brother in laws Facebook feed

It's a matter of faith in conservative circles and bridges the Christians, the gun nuts & the neocons.

[blogslut]

10. There is something very wrong with that man.

I don't know if it's psychological or physiological but whatever it is, it's clinical.

[struggle4progress]

11. Um ... yeah ... sure ...

[Punkingal]

12. He is deranged.....

I can't believe people like this guy.

[underpants]

19. Consider the audience he is pandering to

Trust me, he is

They are ruining themselves to get the nomination

[Punkingal]

25. Yes, I know...

Scary to think about this bizarre world we are living in.

[lancer78]

13. Oh I am sure

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]

14. You know, the Nazis had pieces of flair that they made the Jews wear.

[tishaLA]

15. I predict this may finally be his Waterloo

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]

17. I bet his approval ratings will go even higher.

Like Trump's did when he started trumpeting about Mexicans being rapists and murderers.

[tishaLA]

20. Perhaps, but I don't really think teanuts

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&quot , especially as it relates to the relationship between the Holocaust and Zionism, is totemic to them.

[pnwmom]

21. I think they'll find a way to combine their attitudes

about Jewish victimization with the thought that they helped contribute to it by not carrying.

But time will tell.

[SwankyXomb]

23. Republicans only need Israel

to fuel their End Times fantasies.

[SummerSnow]

36. The more hate, the poll numbers climb.

[Rex]

16. Guns for everyone, forever in Guns we trust!

[spanone]

18. PLEASE tell me this is satire....P L E A S E

[Mendocino]

22. The Ben Carson MO

open mouth, say something stupid, repeat.

[Johonny]

24. If England and France forced Hitler to follow arms control laws signed at the ebd of WWI

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]

26. Hmm. France was armed. Poland had plenty of guns, as did Czechoslovakia.

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]

33. And more importantly, they had tanks, ships, airplanes, cannons, and bombs. Not just guns.

[dflprincess]

27. Yes, because some pistols and hunting rifles would have accomplished

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]

28. More about the Hitler gun control lie.

My understanding was that Jews were prohibited from acquiring firearms.

Carson's comment doesn't hold water.

[leftynyc]

39. Your understanding is correct

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]

29. The Next Step In His Trail Of "Logic"........

.........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]

30. Right cause everyones knows that small arms fire

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]

32. There are actual gun nuts who think a .50 BMG can go through a tank (only a modified one could

go through a Panzer I and Panzer II with a shot in the rear).

[workinclasszero]

34. Right. The Russians actually had anti tank rifles

in ww2, don't know what caliber they were.

I think they were only effective against the first panzers.

[6chars]

31. this is a tough one to digest

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]

35. Losing the Jewish vote in 3....2....1

What a quackadoo

[Bernblu]

37. Ben Carson seems to have a limited relationship with reality!

[MoonRiver]

40. I think this clown is probably the most offensive

among a car full of obnoxious scum bags. He' perfected the art of stupid to perfection. c

[RockaFowler]

41. I am beyond offended by this

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]

42. This is a common conceit and claim among gun nut shitheads

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.