• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    I do not blame any woman or queer person arming themselves in the U.S. right now. But I think that you should think of it as personal protection rather than preparation for something larger.

    Be aware of this:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disarmament_of_the_German_Jews

    The Jews of Germany constituted less than 1 percent of the country’s population. It is preposterous to argue that the possession of firearms would have enabled them to mount resistance against a systematic program of persecution implemented by a modern bureaucracy, enforced by a well-armed police state, and either supported or tolerated by the majority of the German population. Mr. Carson’s suggestion that ordinary Germans, had they had guns, would have risked their lives in armed resistance against the regime simply does not comport with the regrettable historical reality of a regime that was quite popular at home. Inside Germany, only the army possessed the physical force necessary for defying or overthrowing the Nazis, but the generals had thrown in their lot with Hitler early on.

    Obviously, women and queer people are a lot more than 1% of the population, but you can’t count on every queer person being on the right side and you certainly can’t count on every woman to be on the right side.

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        23 days ago

        What a bunch of slave-owners thought about guns hundreds of years ago is not really relevant to today.

        And if you’re going to attack someone for thinking people should be armed for the wrong reason, maybe you should find better targets.

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          23 days ago

          Whoa, I’m not attacking you. I have a difference in opinion as to why people should be armed. Not saying that one does not have a right to self defense, just that i put stock in the need to collectively hold the government accountable and fight tyranny

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      23 days ago

      I think we agree that it is important to consider parallels in history, but the US is not 1930s Germany.

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          22 days ago

          Germany is roughly 138,000 square miles in size, while the USA is approximately 4,000,000 square miles.

          The population of Germany in the 1930’s was roughly 60,000,000, the population of the US today, closer to 400,000,000.

          The US does not share an international border with 10 different countries.

          That’s just for starters. So while I agree there are parallels, there are a lot more differences that you’re not accounting for.