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Would the Holocaust have been quite as terrible if every citizen (Jewish included) owned a gun, and it wasn’t just the bad guys backed by the government who wer
by alehul 7y ago
Would the Holocaust have been quite as terrible if every citizen (Jewish included) owned a gun, and it wasn’t just the bad guys backed by the government who were armed?
Also, to talk about how it’s hopeless to have a gun versus a drone — there aren’t enough drones, and Vietnam is a great counter-example for “tech always wins.”
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- krapp 7y ago>Would the Holocaust have been quite as terrible if every citizen (Jewish included) owned a gun, and it wasn’t just the bad guys backed by the government who were armed? Maybe, maybe not. The Nazis weren't just "bad guys backed by the government who were armed," they were a political party, which included much of the German populace, who supported its anti-Semitic ideals. It's possible more guns would have ended the Holocaust sooner, but it's also possible they would have just made it more efficient.
- alehul 7y agoI imagine that any German, if they desired to commit genocide, could join the Nazis and acquire a weapon. Those who disagreed with the party in power could not. Citizens being armed would both change the calculus of a genocide, making it harder to execute and possibly preventing it. If attempted anyway, it would be much messier for the Nazis.