So, I keep seeing these memes about President Obama being a Nazi because he supports gun control. I thought it was an interesting point, so I looked up information on gun laws in Germany before and after the Nazis took over.
The truth is----- well...In 1919, BEFORE THE NAZIs, in the wake of World War I, the German government passed the Regulations on Weapons Ownership, which declared that "all firearms, as well as all kinds of firearms ammunition, are to be surrendered immediately." In 1920, the government enacted the Law on the Disarmament of the People which further limited military-type weapons.
The strongest German gun control laws were enacted BEFORE the Nazis came to power.
In 1928, under pressure from the the rising National Socialists (the NAZIs), the conservative majority in the German parliament revoked the 1919 Regulations on Weapons Ownership and relaxed gun restrictions but put into effect a strict firearm licensing scheme.
The truth is----- well...In 1919, BEFORE THE NAZIs, in the wake of World War I, the German government passed the Regulations on Weapons Ownership, which declared that "all firearms, as well as all kinds of firearms ammunition, are to be surrendered immediately." In 1920, the government enacted the Law on the Disarmament of the People which further limited military-type weapons.
The strongest German gun control laws were enacted BEFORE the Nazis came to power.
In 1928, under pressure from the the rising National Socialists (the NAZIs), the conservative majority in the German parliament revoked the 1919 Regulations on Weapons Ownership and relaxed gun restrictions but put into effect a strict firearm licensing scheme.
After
Hitler was elected chancellor of Germany the Nazi led parliament passed the German
Weapons Act which repealed
pre-Nazi restrictions on gun ownership and expanded gun rights for everyone
except Jews.
The Nazis expanded gun rights for citizens. At the same time they treated the Jews as non-citizens.
On November 11, 1938, the Regulations
Against Jews' Possession of Weapons deprived Jews of the right to possess
any form of weapons including truncheons, knives, or firearms and ammunition.
In Nazi Germany more and more citizens had a guns, but a Jew
with any weapon was automatically treated as a dangerous criminal.
So Nazi Germany was a powerful nation where
ultra-conservative, right-wing interests expanded gun
rights . In that nation,
the police serving those same ultra-conservative, right-wing interests treated an
ethnic minority with any weapon as an automatic threat. The police could kill the minority because “I
saw a weapon,” or “I thought I saw a weapon,” even though it is legal for “regular”
citizens to be armed.
Any of this sounding familiar?
Other things the Nazis did:
- Resegregated schools
- Changed school social studies curriculum by requiring more patriotic versions of history
- Effectively outlawed independent labor unioins (by forcing all to them to submit to the Nazi’s German Labour Front)
- Demanded public support for a mythology of German exceptionalism (Aryanism)
- Promoted suspicion and hatred of immigrants and others who weren't "real" Germans
- Responded to all perceived and imagined threats with military aggression (often to spread “freedom” by “liberating” places like Paris)
---Anderson T. Graves
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