re: #19 Buck

It is not like you to go on and on so far off subject.

By restricting ownership of firearms to “…persons whose trustworthiness is not in question”. The Nazis DID institute Gun Control in order to disarm their enemies and arm their friends.

True or False?

The Nazis did confiscate the guns of the people they targeted, Jews being only one example.

True or false?

But the POINT of all this is that the NRA and affiliated groups claim the same type of gun confiscation is beginning in the US, and may lead to the death of American democracy and the rise of a Hitlerian or Stalinist dictatorship.

Such a POV isn’t based on facts. There is no ethnic or racial group being targeted in the US for disarmament. Furthermore, the restrictions under consideration involve only a few models of firearms, namely the most lethal assault rifles. All other guns would continue to be available, and of course to all ethnic, racial, etc. groups. Thus the analogy of today’s America and Third Reich Germany is not appropos; rather it’s a scare tactic devoid of substance.