Guns Don't Equal Freedom

The Gun Nuts keep claiming that they need to own guns in order to protect themselves against the "oppressive government" and they typically claim that Hitler would not have been able to take over Germany if private citizens had been armed. Ben Carson is the latest GOPer Presidential candidate to expound this hateful myth.

In reality Germany between 1918-33 was afflicted by widespread political violence. The Nazis established the SA, from which they later spun off the SS, which became the instrument of genocide and terror. Many other political groups also established militias. The final result was the breakdown of the Weimar Republic, and the triumph of the Nazis. Political violence is the enemy of freedom, not its defender.