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[Glaug-Eldare]

24. I almost agree, but...

I don't think the Holocaust was the kind of campaign that would've been prevented with individual RKBA. It would've introduced additional risk for the government, but it would not have thwarted them. Domestically, the Nazis selected extremely unpopular minorities that would not have been able to conduct an effective defensive campaign. Successful revolutions and uprisings don't need a rear because they have the people -- they don't need barracks and arsenals, because they have friends everywhere. Slavs, Communists, Jews, homosexuals, gypsies, &c. did not have enough friends in German-occupied land for them to operate this way. It should also be noted that, externally, Germany was successfully engaging foreign states in open and guerrilla warfare. Their neighbors weren't subject to German gun control, but that did very little to prevent them from being occupied and exterminated. On the other hand, I'm not sure what gun control looked like in Poland, Czechoslovakia, France, &c. I welcome any clarification on that.

I believe in an individual right to defense oneself from other people and the state, but I don't think it's accurate to say that gun control enabled the Holocaust -- the Nazis strategy of dividing and conquering was far more powerful.