re: Gun Control in Nazi Germany

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What's the biggest similarity between gun control in the Third Reich and the gun control scheme in the present-day United States?

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That's actually a good question. I'm a big 2nd Amendment guy. But I hate when people compare what the Nazi's did to what's going on here in America.

NOW... I will say this: What's going on in CT and NY (gun registration) is eerily similar to the way Germany had a restriction on guns and registration prior to Hitler gaining power. If memory serves me correct, Hitler's only gun law was banning them from Jews. I could be wrong though.

The other issue I have with registration is the fact that the wrong people know what I have. The government is never something one should trust fully. If you trust the government without exception, you're a fricking moron. Sorry, but you are.

Some of you are here...

The problem with that type of registration is in the hands of a corrupt government (e.g. The United States Government) it could lead to some issues down the road.

Now, we aren't ANYWHERE near what Germany was pre-WWII. There are so many guns here that trying to outright ban them would cause some minor issues. Mostly the police would be sent into hostile environment and I fear many would be killed over it.

The good news is that an outright ban would never be implemented here. Much to the chagrin of Utopian liberal philosophies.

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What's the biggest similarity between gun control in the Third Reich and the gun control scheme in the present-day United States?

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Both start out as "good intention common sense efforts" and with a relatively small change in leadership one was then leveraged into a contributing factor to be able to exterminate a good portion of the Jewish population.

The point people make is not that current gun control efforts make people equal to the third riech but that things with good intentions can be used in bad ways and the God given right of man to be able to protect themselves and their property should not be dependent on a ruling class behaving themselves.

Couple that with the FACT that criminals ignore laws it is pretty common sense to see that gun control efforts do nothing for really protecting people from gun crimes in the vast majority of cases.