Fascism: Don't Think it Can't Happen Here

Note: If you think my introduction of Hitler, Nazis, the KKK, and fascism into the gun control debate is sensationalistic and extreme, think again. See "Lethal Laws," provided by Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership.

Self-test: see if you can match the following gun control and civil rights-related quotes with their originators or sources (answers at bottom). The nationalities involved have been concealed to avoid giving away the answers. Click on the swastika next to each quote or statement to see its origin.

  1. "All propaganda has to be popular and has to adapt its spiritual level to the perception of the least intelligent of those towards whom it intends to direct itself."
  2. "When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical [document], giving a radical amount of individual freedom to [nationality of citizens] ...... And so a lot of people say there's too much personal freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we're going to have weapon sweeps and more things like that to try to make people safer in their communities."
  3. "We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary [nationality of citizens]."
  4. "Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal." 
  5. "The [nationality of citizens] people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security."
  6. "[nationality of citizens] who wish to use firearms should join the [Armed Forces]. Ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State"
  7. "All [assault weapons] are to be handed in immediately...The [Armed Forces] give every repectable [citizen] the opportunity of campaigning with them. Therefore any one who does not belong to one of the above named organizations and who unjustifiably nevertheless keeps his weapon...must be regarded as an enemy of the national government."
  8. "The most foolish mistake we could possible make would be to allow the [nationality of citizens] to carry arms ..." 
  9. Order from government authorities: police were not to respond to calls from Jews who were being attacked by rioters.
  10. "...official university law review called for a 'prohibitive tax...on the privilege' of selling handguns as a way of disarming..." (The idea is to use high taxes to discourage handgun ownership.)
  11. "Saturday Night Special" handgun ban
  12. "Only police officers should have guns."
Bonus Question:
 
The picture at left is:
(a) a meeting of Handgun Control, Inc.
(b) a Nazi Party rally of the 1930s
(c) a picture from the 1992 or 1996 Democratic National Convention (see quotes 2, 3, and 4, and their origins)
(d) victory celebration for David Dinkins' election as the Mayor of New York City (see item 9)
Image credits and copyright: http://www.stentorian.com/credits.html
 

Answers

  1. Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf ("My Struggle"), Vol. I
  2. U.S. President Bill Clinton, on MTV 3-22-94 (Thanks to http://home.pacbell.net/dragon13/bradyquotes.html. Hmm, Slick Willie was on MTV- was that before, after, or during the Beavis and Butthead show?) [document] = "Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights", [nationality of citizens] = Americans
  3. William Jefferson Clinton, USA Today, March 11, 1993. (Thanks again to http://home.pacbell.net/dragon13/bradyquotes.html.)
  4. Attorney General Janet Reno
  5. Louis Freeh Director of the FBI, 1993 [nationality of citizens] = Americans
  6. Heinrich Himmler. Thanks to http://www.icon-stl.net/~cwbussja/gunquote.htm [nationality of citizens] = Germans, [Armed Forces] = SS or the SA
  7. SA Oberfuhrer Bad Tolz, March 1933 [assault weapons] = "military type firearms", [citizen] = "German man", [Armed Forces] = "SS, SA and Stahlhelm"
  8. Adolf Hitler. [nationality of citizens] = "subjugated people"
  9. This order was known to have been given by the Nazis on November 9, 1938- the "Night of the Broken Glass" in which rioting Blackshirts and their associates attacked Jews, burned synagogues, and looted Jewish businesses. It also may have been given by the government of David Dinkens, the Mayor of New York City during the Crown Heights riots in the early 1990s. New York City, of course, bans the possession of guns by law-abiding citizens, thus rendering them unable to defend themselves.
  10. No, this particular quote isn't from Charles Schumer or Dianne Feinstein. The full text of the statement, from http://www.webnexus.com/users/pactive/library/racial.txt, says,  "An article in Virginia's official university law review called for a "prohibitive tax...on the privilege" of selling handguns as a way of disarming "the son of Ham", whose "cowardly practice of `toting' guns has been one of the most fruitful sources of crime....Let a negro board a railroad train with a quart of mean whiskey and a pistol in his grip and the chances are that there will be a murder, or at least a row, before he alights."  [Comment, Carrying Concealed Weapons, 15 Va L. Reg. 391, 391-92 (1909); George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal, Vol. 2, No. 1, "Gun Control and Racism," Stefan Tahmassebi, 1991, p. 75]  Thus, many Southern States imposed high taxes or banned inexpensive guns so as to price blacks and poor whites out of the gun market."
  11. Again from http://www.webnexus.com/users/pactive/library/racial.txt :the law was passed in Tennessee in 1870. "In the first legislative session in which they gained control,white supremacists passed "An Act to Preserve the Peace and Prevent Homicide," which banned the sale of all handguns except the expensive "Army and Navy model handgun" which whites already owned or could afford to buy, and blacks could not. ("Gun Control:  White Man's Law," William R. Tonso, Reason, December 1985)  Upheld in Andrews v. State, 50 Tenn. (3 Heisk.)165, 172 (1871) (GMU CR LJ, p. 74) ... As B. Bruce-Briggs has written in the Public Interest, `It is difficult to escape the conclusion that the `Saturday Night Special' is emphasized because it is cheap and

    12. being sold to a particular class of people. The name is sufficient evidence -- the reference is to `niggertown Saturday night.'"
    • How many Blacks and Jews in New York City voted for the city's gun control laws, or for the laws' supporters??? "Those who cannot learn from the past are condemned to repeat it." Well, we now see where the antigunners who complain about "Saturday Night Specials" stand...
    • See also http://jpfo.org/alert13.htm
    13. "Only police should have guns, right, Sheriff Kleagle?"
    "Right you are, Deputy Billy Jeff. As Sheriff, I'm in a position to keep guns out of the hands of, shall we say, undesirable elements of society. I issue all the gun permits in this here town."
    "You remembered to deputize the Grand Wizard, didn't you, Sheriff Kleagle?"
    "Of course, Deputy Billy Bob. I wouldn't want a fine upstanding White man citizen like the Grand Wizard to carry a firearm illegally."

    Tongue-in-cheek, and possibly in bad taste, but that's how it really worked in the 19th century. Don't let the white supremacists make it work in the 21st.
    "We endorse wholeheartedly the efforts of Kwesei Mfune and the NAACP to get firearms out of [Black] communities."
    If you think the dialogue above is an exaggeration:

    1902   South Carolina      First total civilian handgun ban. The state banned all pistol sales except to sheriffs and their special deputies, which included the KKK and company strongmen. (Kates, "Toward a History of Handgun Prohibition in the United States" in Restricting Handguns:  The Liberal Skeptics Speak Out, p. 15, 1979.) (GMU CR LJ, p. 76)

    See http://www.webnexus.com/users/pactive/library/racial.txt,

    "While Northern states may have favored the discretionary licensing laws as a means of ensuring that Italians, Jews, labor agitators, or others with  radical political beliefs did not obtain arms, Southern states favored such laws because the broad discretion permitted maneuvering room to deny  permits to African-Americans." [10] From
    http://teapot.usask.ca/pub/cdn-firearms/Snyder/right2carry.html
     

    		 These people support strict gun control laws: they want to keep guns out of the "wrong" hands.

    Consider, for example, the killing of a Black man in Howard Beach, NY- a mob of a dozen or so Triple-K wannabees chased a Black into the path of an automobile. I'm sure those would-be sheet-heads were grateful for New York City's strict gun laws; they could be confident that their victim wasn't "packing."
    Answer to Bonus Question: technically it's (b), but it's sometimes hard to tell the difference between their ideologies.

"The more things change, the more they stay the same."

The following remark was posted in talk.politics.guns on 10/20/99. "Negroes" and "Blacks" were not the words the individual used. Here's yet another white supremacist voice for gun control:
Anyone ever read "The Bell Curve?" [Negroes] are biologically inferior in
intelligence to the white man... therefore they should not be allowed to engage
in politics or own handguns in a country which is populated mostly by white
people. The only ones who will disagree with this are either [Blacks] or [Black]
lovers.... and I don't have much use for either one.
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