More than half of the jews fled germany... By everything I have read it didnt come close to half made it out...
I sugest you read again.
There were approx 550,000 Jews in Germany when the Nazis came to power.
Of those, approx 142,000 were eventually murdered. I've no doubt some survived, but most had already left.
Again by 1936 what sane jew would care about other countries since they didnt care about them?
Anti-semitism was rife in some countires, far less so in others.
According to the beliefs of anti semites, Jews were not loyal to the countries they lived in, they plotted in secret against those countries.
Do you think it would strengthen anti semitism if in the early 30s Jews had organised a secret uprising against a democraticaly elected German government,
before that government had taken really oppressive action?
Nazi repression of the Jews was a gradual thing, and by the time it was clear how bad things were going to get, it was already too late.
An early agressive stance would most likely have stopped it all.
550,000 Jews can launch armed rebellion against the German government in the mid 30s and stopped the Nazi oppression? Don't be silly.
The Nazis were hugely popular in Germany in the 30s. If the Jews had precipitated action, the Nazis would be able to say "I told you so" and the Jews would have been wiped out much earlier.
If 550,000 Jews with guns are going to be so effective, what about the 80 million Germans with guns? Aren't they going to by 160 times more effective?
Or does a "good guy" with a gun automatically win against a "bad guy" with a gun? (and the inverted commas aren't meant to suggest Jews weren't good, and Nazis bad)
Under no circumstances were the American civilians better armed than the british soldiers.
Hunting weapons in the 18th century were typically superior to military weapons.
The Americans did NOT have extensive help from france.
They had help from the French fleet, they had supplies from France, they had French regular troops on their side.
The Americans did NOT have extensive help from france.Yes there was some, and most of the french soldiers went home,as they didnt want to risk war with the british. Our debate is degree of help, not help.
I am sure you know that the british had no trouble with resupply,and that all of it didnt have to come from england.And a huge amount was on American soil already.
BTW, why is america capitalised, and Britain, France and England not?
All countries recieve thier weapons from foriegn countries depending on geo politics at time. Except America.
No, most countries make their own weapons, to a certain extent.
What I mean is, it doesn't matter how many pistols and rifles you have hidden under the bed, you need proper military weapons like machine guns, mortars, artillery, missiles, etc to have an effect in a modern battle.
All waco showed was that a hundred men, women, and children can not take on, an overwhelming force, in a undefenceable place, that had attack helos and tanks.Waco isnt logical example.
Waco is the perfect example. It shows what happens when fools with guns think they can stand up to an army. They can't.
If you've got a gun, they bring a tank, and as the Iraqis have proved, you need good modern, very expensive, anti-tank weapons to take out a modern tank.
If by some miracle you manage to get a suitable anti-tank weapon, they bring aircraft, or artillery. They will outgun you.
Unless you have foreign backers who will supply you with the latest military weaponry, you will lose.
The only stats I would believe are the yearly FBI stats...sorry.
Those are the yearly FBI stats.
beetle... your poll was bogus as it asked if everyone wanted a bigf pile of guns stacked up in the town mall so that ANYONE could pick one up and carry it around.
my poll asked a more realistic question of "do you think your countries gun control is to strict, not strict enough or just right.
Why not ask a question like:
Would you prefer your countriy's gun laws or America's gun laws?
You could even throw in a third option, Lazs ' gun laws.
nash... now look at the gun homicides for whites in America.
I have. According to the FBI, around half the murders in the US are comitted by whites. (actually around a third by whites, a third black, a third unkown, but that's roughly half of know murders, and probably a similar percentage of the unkowns as well)
Note that to match the rate for everyone in England and Wales last year ie including the urban poor, you would have to have to have less than 400 people shot by white Americans.
how is it that places like Norway with less restrictions on most firearms has very low gun crimes and Canada with as many guns per capita as the U.S. has so few?
Fewer handguns, which are the weapon of choice for the criminal, because they are easy to conceal,
Why has violent crime and crime in general allmost doubled in entgland and austrralia since they passed their draconian gun bans?
I can't speak for Australia, but it hasn't in Britain.
The way the police recorded minor crime in Britain has changed, so for example someone pushing someone else was rarely recorded before, now goes down as a "violent crime".
Years ago, a "violent crime" that resulted in no injury usually didn't get recorded. Now over 40% of police recorded "violent crime" involves no injury, not even a bruise, graze, scrape or black eye, which are all recorded now under "woundings".
For over a decade, they've been collecting an alternative set of crime figures, called the "British Crime Survey". 40,000 people are questioned on their experience of crime in a year, at random. It gives a good picture of what crimes are actually happening, and catches many minor crimes the police do not record, or which are not reported to police.
The BCS shows violent crime has declined by 35% since 1995.
Do what you want (or whatever your king/queen wants) in your country but having only the "elite" shoot at birds in hunting clubs while the muggers and rapists run amock is not what I call a good gun control plan.
Rape is one of the few crimes that is higher in America than Britain. Perhaps it's harder to get away from a rapist with a gun than an unarmed one?
