“The likelihood of Hitler being able to accomplish his goals would have been greatly diminished if the people had been armed.”- Ben Carson
Ben Carson has not backed down from his idea that if the citizens of Germany were armed during Nazi rule, Hitler's goal of complete genocide would have more difficult. Carson uses Nazi Germany as an example of how tough gun restrictions would prevent the people of the United States to stand against their government.
Prior to the Gesetz über Schußwaffen und Munition (Law on Firearms and Ammunition) that was enacted in 1928, Germany required citizens to surrender their firearms and ammunition or face five years of imprisonment and a fine of 100,000 marks ($58,225). This was a in response to the number of communist revolts that were happening around Germany.
The 1928 law required Germans to have possession permit to acquire firearms. Germans could even carry their firearms without a special weapons permit for
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It was how fast the Nazis raided homes of people, tapped telephones, planted informants in cafes, shut down all presses that disagreed with Nazi ideology, forbid citizens from sharing information with foreigners, and kill all those who spoke against them, that made it impossible for Jews to have any chance of surviving the Nazi onslaught, even if they were armed. Jews had no idea what was waiting for them when the Nazis were transporting them to concentration camps. Even if Jews, communities and other opponents were able to form a coalition, it would have been unlikely to disrupt Hitler's plans. The Warsaw uprising is an example of what happened to those armed brave enough to fight:15,200 rebels killed and missing, 5,000 wounded, 15,000 sent to POW camps. Among civilians: 200,000 were dead, about 700,000 expelled from the city,and about 55,000 civilians were sent to concentration camps, including 13,000 to
A hot-button topic in the world of U.S. politics today is the controversy over whether or not new gun laws need to be instituted to keep Americans safe. We are a nation that believes in the Second Amendment, and one that sticks to traditional values. With this, comes a great deal of incongruity, which makes for a very sensitive debate on gun control. On one side of the spectrum, we have those who take a more liberal stance; while they do in fact support the second amendment, there is no doubt that the U.S. has evolved significantly since the Constitution was written, hence creating a need for strict gun laws. On the other side of the spectrum, conservatives argue that as soon as executive action inhibits the fundamental principles in which
Rehabilitation is the alternative to punishment but exactly what is rehabilitation? Rehabilitation according to the Encyclopedia of Criminal Justice is defined as, “punishment intended to reform a convict so that she can lead a productive life free from crime,” rehabilitation is successful as long as the criminals are willing to accept the change similarly to the steps taken by alcoholics or drug addicts in rehab. Rehabilitation is a form of punishment but unlike other forms of punishment, rehabilitations objectives are more therapeutic rather than punitive. Rehabilitation is the best option for prisons because there are so many different sub categories that any prisoner willing to change should able to find rehabilitation whether they are
The article “Treasure the Second Amendment, but Ban Assault Rifles” discovered on Opposing Viewpoints was originally published at NewsMax.com, and authored by Judith Miller. The title suggests a forthcoming article in which the current interpretation of the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution is expressly valid, but will present an argument for the banning of Assault Rifles. However, this article provides no evidence or statistics to show how an assault weapon ban might have success, but instead, argues it's position by bemoaning apathetic past and current presidents, detailing several horrific tragedies seemingly attributed to the expiration of the previous ban, and singling out a specific assault weapon, but fails establish a legitimate argument against Assault Rifles.
In 1892 was the first government step in licensing firearms. A basic permit for pistols was introduced in the Criminal Code. In 1913 it became a criminal offence to sell or distribute firearms to anyone under 16 years old. Government finally recognized that children should not have possession of a firearm. Until 1934 firearm registration was rarely an enforced offence. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police kept records of those purchasing firearms. Handguns had to be re-registered every five years starting in 1939.
Their main goals were to organize uprisings, break out of the ghettos, and join partisan units in the fight against the Germans.The Jews knew that uprisings would not stop the Germans and that only a handful of fighters would succeed in escaping to join the partisans. Still, some Jews made the decision to resist. Weapons were smuggled into ghettos. Inhabitants in the ghettos of Vilna, Mir, Lachva , Kremenets, Częstochowa, Nesvizh, Sosnowiec, and Tarnow, among others, resisted with force when the Germans began to deport ghetto populations. In Bialystok, the underground staged an uprising just before the final destruction of the ghetto in September 1943. Most of the ghetto fighters, primarily young men and women, died during the fighting.The Warsaw ghetto uprising in the spring of 1943 was the largest single revolt by Jews. Hundreds of Jews fought the Germans and their auxiliaries in the streets of the ghetto. Thousands of Jews refused to obey German orders to report to an assembly point for deportation. In the end the Nazis burned the ghetto to the ground to force the Jews out. Although they knew defeat was certain, Jews in the ghetto fought desperately and
Prior to Franklin Roosevelt, the Democratic party didn’t have much interest in federal gun control. The regulation of guns was held at the state-level. When Prohibition-era gangsters were able to overwhelm local police resources in the 1920s and 1930s, Franklin Roosevelt saw an issue. He originally proposed a “New Deal for Crime”, which later became the National Firearms Act of 1934. This was the law regarding gun control on the federal level in United States history. It sought to place a tax on firearms and require registry of all guns. Obviously, gun owners did not agree, so only weapons thought to be “gangster weapons with no usefulness for self-defense” (Adam Winkler) were required to be registered, a weaker form of Roosevelt’s proposal,
A central theme of Hitler’s thinking was the concept of struggle. In the nineteenth century the naturalist Charles Darwin had explained how in the world of nature when the environment changed some of the species with favourable variations survived better that others. Darwin called this “natural selection”.
Amendment “right to bear arms.” In the case of vehicle regulations, these laws were enacted
In 1934, a law called the National Firearms Act, had been set in motion to successfully ban automatic weapons from citizens so that the only ones allowed to have automatic weapons were the police, military, and people with written
James Q. Wilson a former teacher at Harvard University understands that taking guns away from the common people will only reduce the chance of surviving a possible attack of any sort of intruder.”Those that they cannot buy,
When the constitution was written, nobody, not even the founders thought that the nation would survive. In his article “Gun-Control Foes
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Attention Getter: During World War 2 Japanese Emperor Isoroku Yamamoto was quoted saying “You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass.”
Gun control had been a phenomenal issue in our country. In December 15, 1791 the second amendment established in the top ten amendments in the Constitution by James Madison. The amendment stated that people have a rights to bear arm to protect themself, their loved ones and their property. To legally get a gun you have to be 21 years old and over, without
China is an emerging economy that caters number of market opportunities for foreign investment. Moreover, China has a huge potential for economic growth. It is the world’s most populous country. It shares border with fourteen countries. The rapid expansion of Chinese economy has captivated many countries to invest in this market in order to gain profit and enjoy low tax rates. China’s one of the best-known landmarks is the Great wall, one of the world’s largest manmade structures. China is the second largest energy consumer country and third largest energy provider country in the world where coal is the primary source of energy. As far as the political factors of China are concerned China is not dominated by a single or a two party system, it has a multi -party System under the leadership of CPC (communist party of China). In decision making process of the political, economic, cultural and social affairs the other parties express their concerns regarding the particular polices to be adopted but one who rule in all is CPC whose approval is the main concern. Furthermore, considering the political stability of the country, number of foreign investments has been embedded into the country’s economy making it a country, which carries a low level of risks of investments. Consequently, this immense increase in the investment ties back to the increase in political stability of the country.