Reply #45: Years back... [View All]

[jeepnstein]

I spent a rainy afternoon in Athens, Ohio, drinking a couple of beers with an elderly gentleman who had a number tatooed on his arm. It never really hit me as true until then what he and his brethren suffered.

The gist of the talk was that nothing, absolutely nothing, could have prevented the Jews from going to the camps once the Nazis chose their plan of action. They held all the cards by then. Since most of the Jews were law-abiding citizens it wasn't really in their nature to go to the hills and fight. I won't get into a discussion as to why since I'm a non-Jew and it might come off as a harsh criticism and I certainly don't wish to be seen that way. Given the same set of circumstances, I wonder how many keyboard commandos would be willing to leave their family and go to the hills and fight? Don't blame the victims for what they did or didn't do. I suspect most of us would be herded into the cattle cars rather than leave our loved-ones sides.

Anyway, I never really saw the 2nd Amendment as some kind of bulwark against being sent to the gas chambers. What I do see it as is the recognition by the state that the citizens have ownership of their country are are to be trusted. When the government no longer trusts it's own citizens it's doomed to fail.