And, in a sense, why I’m a conservative.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Yesterday was a double-anniversary in Germany; the fall of the Wall, and of Kristallnacnt<\/em>, the 1938 pogrom that marked the active, public advent of the Holocaust, during which Jews, unarmed by force of law, were beaten, brutalized and murdered, their shops and homes ransacked, and the value of a Jewish life set at “lower than dog”.<\/p>\n Some Second Amendment activists note that Germany had strict gun control.\u00a0 Anti-gunners chirp that guns were legal in Germany.\u00a0 Second Amendment activists who’ve actually read the history respond that yes, Germans could own firearms – but they were closely registered.\u00a0 And when the Nuremberg Laws banned guns in the hands of Jews,\u00a0<\/em>the Germans knew exactly where to go to find them.\u00a0<\/p>\n Just as they do with every community of desired victims <\/a>around the world:<\/p>\n