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Ben Carson Suggests Holocaust Would Have Been Less Likely if Jews Were Armed
ABC News ^ | October 8, 2015 | Katherine Faulders

Posted on 10/08/2015 9:39:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Republican candidate Ben Carson continued his controversial remarks about guns Thursday -- suggesting in a new interview that the Jews may have been able to diminish the likelihood of the Holocaust if they were armed.

Carson made the remarks, which drew swift condemnation -- on CNN. He said that passengers on Flight 93, which crashed on 9/11, helped avoid further tragedy by rushing the gunman.

In Carson's new book “A Perfect Union,” Carson writes that “through a combination of removing guns and disseminating propaganda, the Nazis were able to carry out their evil intentions with relatively little resistance.”(continued)

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TOPICS: History; Politics
KEYWORDS: 2016election; 2ndamendment; amnesty; aperfectunion; banglist; bencarson; carson; election2016; germany; guncontrol; holocaust; iran; israel; lebanon; moreoldnews; pages; searchcarsonjews; secondamendment; theholocaust; waronterror
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1 posted on 10/08/2015 9:39:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He’s right. The MSM is having a hissy-fit.


2 posted on 10/08/2015 9:43:02 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Islam is a cancer on civilization.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ask the Germans who tried to dig out the Jews in Warsaw whether the weapons the Jews had made a difference.


3 posted on 10/08/2015 9:43:45 PM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius (www.wilsonharpbooks.com - Sign up for my new release e-mail and get my first novel for free)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is common sense!

GQ Magazine would, however disagree...


4 posted on 10/08/2015 9:44:05 PM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

What Good Can a Handgun Do Against an Army.....?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2312894/posts


5 posted on 10/08/2015 9:45:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is why Israel is still around. If they don’t have guns, they won’t exist


6 posted on 10/08/2015 9:45:29 PM PDT by 4rcane
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When the Germans liquidated the Warsaw ghetto and deported the inhabitants to Treblinka they were met with armed resistance from a few people with firearms. It was quite a struggle to subdue the ghetto even though the Jews had very few weapons. In the end all were killed but it showed that it does not take a lot of weapons to make the evil machinations of tyranny a lot more difficult. So Dr. Carson was correct.


7 posted on 10/08/2015 9:49:01 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Carson writes that “through a combination of removing guns and disseminating propaganda, the Nazis were able to carry out their evil intentions with relatively little resistance.””

Nazis. National socialists.
Progressives. Liberals. Democrats.


8 posted on 10/08/2015 9:52:07 PM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising:

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


9 posted on 10/08/2015 9:53:28 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What’s controversial bout this? It’s documented historical fact. The Nazis disarmed the Jews and then proceeded to murder over 6 million of them.


10 posted on 10/08/2015 9:57:54 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Jerusalem Mayor to Gun Owners: Carry Your Weapons | Daniel Greenfield
http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/260394/jerusalem-mayor-gun-owners-carry-your-weapons-daniel-greenfield


11 posted on 10/08/2015 10:01:37 PM PDT by 2sheep
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To: 2sheep

JHC, reading the comments on that story just make me sad. What the hell are our kids taught in history class? I could not have any type of conversation with people who find something wrong with what ben carson said because what he said is TRUE!!!!

What do conservatives have in common with people on the left? It is time to separate ourselves. It is time that we accept that we cannot coexist.


12 posted on 10/08/2015 10:08:59 PM PDT by hillarys cankles
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To: 4rcane

This is why Israel is still around. If they don’t have guns, they won’t exist


That’s the truth.

If the Muslims gave up all their weapons tomorrow, there would be peace.

If Israel gave up all it’s weapons tomorrow, there would be another holocaust.


13 posted on 10/08/2015 10:10:52 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Sir Gawain

Just as the Umpqua shooting is surely Muslim revenge for the French train take down in Roseburg (Oregon’s “Bible belt” and home town of Skarlatos), surely the stabbing of Stephen Stone by two “asian men” was also Muslim revenge.

Hero who stopped jihad mass murder on French train stabbed repeatedly in California
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/10/breaking-news-hero-who-stopped-jihad-mass-murder-on-french-train-stabbed-repeatedly-in-california
by Robert Spencer

“It has not yet been announced whether or not his attacker was a revenge-seeking Muslim who was angry over the prevention of the jihad mass murder attack on the train. More details as they break....”


14 posted on 10/08/2015 10:11:40 PM PDT by 2sheep
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Going way out on a limb here, I think that’s why the NAZI’s first step was to disarm them.


15 posted on 10/08/2015 10:12:12 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How can this NOT be true?

The opposing view is what exactly? If only the Jews had tried harder to be nice to the Nazis? If they had more dialogue?


16 posted on 10/08/2015 10:15:18 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m Jewish, and I have studied the Holocaust extensively. It wouldn’t have stopped it, but it would have made a huge difference. At the least, the Germans would have had to devote substantial resources to it, making them lose the war more quickly...which, by itself, would have saved many Jews and others from being murdered.

Of course he is right. That’s why the reaction from the Left is so vociferous - because if you can successfully resist one of the most brutal and oppressive regimes in history with a few hundred thousand or a couple million guns in the hands of a despised minority, what kind of resistance could be put up by 400 million guns in the hands of a large percentage of the population?


17 posted on 10/08/2015 10:15:49 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.”

-Gandhi

British disarmed India and able to prolong its rule.


18 posted on 10/08/2015 10:18:46 PM PDT by jennychase
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This why the enemy is trying to disarm this nation while the enemy is being poured in here .

(Proverbs 24:21) My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change:

(Proverbs 24:22) For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both?

(Proverbs 24:23) These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.

(Proverbs 24:24) He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him:

(Proverbs 24:25) But to them that rebuke him shall be delight, and a good blessing shall come upon them.


19 posted on 10/08/2015 10:21:39 PM PDT by Lera (Proverbs 29:2)
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To: hillarys cankles

i’ve been saying that since 2000. my family said i was crazy. well, i am crazy but it’s still true.


20 posted on 10/08/2015 10:21:55 PM PDT by dp0622
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