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Mike Huckabee: Obama May Be Planning To Grab Guns And Launch A Nazi-Like Dictatorship
By Aviva Shen on Apr 3, 2013 at 4:00 pm
Republican lawmakers are refusing to support universal background checks, the cornerstone of the Senates gun violence prevention package, for fear that the measure will lead to a national gun registry the government will use to confiscate guns from legal gun owners. On his Wednesday radio show, former Arkansas governor and Fox News host Mike Huckabee fanned the flames of the confiscation conspiracy, suggesting gun regulation is a ruse to enact a dictatorship akin to Nazi Germany. Media Matters flagged the exchange:
HUCKABEE: People do forget that. And by the way, {caller} know, that when you bring that up you get people who get crazy on us, and theyll start saying, Oh there you go comparing to the Nazis. And I understand the reaction, but its the truth. You cannot take peoples rights away if theyre resisting and if they have the means to resist, but once theyre disarmed and the people who are trying to take over have all the power, not just political, not just financial, but they have the physical power to domesticate us and to subjugate us to our will theres not a whole lot we can do about it other than just plan to die in the course of resistance. Its very true {caller}, and I appreciate you bringing it up. I know that people are probably calling and saying you know you shouldnt have brought that up. In every society and culture where dictators take over, one of the things they have to do is get control of the military and the police and ultimately all of the citizens and make sure the citizens are disarmed and cant fight in the streets. Gosh I hope it doesnt come to that.
Since calls for stricter gun regulation have increased after the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, the gun lobby has deployed the Nazi comparison frequently. However, under Nazi rule, gun laws were actually relaxed. While Jews were banned from owning any weapons, the legal age to own a gun was lowered, while rifle and shotgun possession was deregulated. Experts say gun policy had little effect on Nazi power either way.
Even with no evidence to back up the confiscation conspiracy, gun advocates and Republican lawmakers have embraced rhetoric comparing President Obama to Hitler and Stalin. Meanwhile, 92 percent of the public supports mandatory background checks for all gun purchases, including overwhelming majorities of gun owners and NRA members.
graham4anything
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at the NRA
the days of guns and bullets are coming to an end and the MAJORITY of the free country is looking forward to stopping the tyranny and dictatorship of the NRA.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)but playing the Hitler card is pretty much the type of thing I expected him to do.
Fortunately, few people with a functioning cerebral cortex pay any attention to him.
BTW, I like the way he accuses the people who call out his Nazi fearmongering as the ones who "get crazy".
frazzled
(18,402 posts)Actually, not.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Is that resistance to the Nazis was pretty well-armed. Does Huckabee think the Warsaw Uprising was fought with harsh language and spitballs? No, it's just that these resistance movements didn't have any support, because - a fact that you never hear - the Nazis were really popular. Unpopular organizations don't get support like seen at the Nuremburg Rally.
LiberalFighter
(51,172 posts)Huckster!
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)bemildred
(90,061 posts)winter is coming
(11,785 posts)IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)I didn't think I could've eaten the whole flock so quickly all by myself. Musta been the prez. Thank you for your insight.
denverbill
(11,489 posts)It's completely impossible to reason with idiots.
Mike Nelson
(9,975 posts)I think he wants it to happen, so he could lead the parade to a new, USA with no religious freedom...
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)Must really be plannin t'run fer Prezdint. Wonder how far into Kraaazyland he'll wander before tryin to head back towards th'center before th'time comes to play "I'm not as nuts as ya thunked!"
ChangeUp106
(549 posts)I like how he says "may." He's just not sure. Obama might be Hitler, he might now be. Huckabee just doesn't know
Blue Idaho
(5,060 posts)What a guy.
warrior1
(12,325 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Paladin
(28,279 posts)...but his basic point turns up time and again in the DU Gungeon, where "Red Dawn" is considered a work of non-fiction.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)is coming along nicely. LOLOLOL!
brooklynite
(94,803 posts)...to be a Media Matters staff member and have to listen to this stuff every day.
yellowcanine
(35,702 posts)Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)His grasp of reality ended a long, long time ago.
CBHagman
(16,992 posts)Shame on Huckabee for encouraging the silly belief that John Q. Citizen is going to be some kind of minuteman for a new American revolution.