David Keene Defends the Cuomo - Hitler Comparison

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The Daily News

The National Rifle Association’s President said Friday that he saw nothing wrong with protesters comparing Gov. Cuomo to Adolf Hitler at an Albany demonstration against the governor’s sweeping new gun control law. 

David Keene, one of the featured speakers at Thursday’s rally outside the state Capitol, said the protesters were trying to demonstrate what happens when a government disarms its citizenry. 

“Folks that are cognizant of the history, not just in Germany but elsewhere, look back to the history and say we can’t let that sort of thing happen here,” Keene said during an Albany radio appearance.

This is stupid beyond words. What do you think?

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The Ridiculous Hitler Comparisons

Salon

This week, people were shocked when the Drudge Report posted a giant picture of Hitler over a headline speculating that the White House will proceed with executive orders to limit access to firearms. The proposed orders are exceedingly tame, but Drudge’s reaction is actually a common conservative response to any invocation of gun control.

Unfortunately for LaPierre et al., the notion that Hitler confiscated everyone’s guns is mostly bogus. And the ancillary claim that Jews could have stopped the Holocaust with more guns doesn’t make any sense at all if you think about it for more than a minute.

Proponents of the theory sometimes point to the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising as evidence that, as Fox News’ Judge Andrew Napolitano put it, “those able to hold onto their arms and their basic right to self-defense were much more successful in resisting the Nazi genocide.” But as the Tablet’s Michael Moynihan points out, Napolitano’s history (curiously based on a citation of work by French Holocaust denier Robert Faurisson) is a bit off. In reality, only about 20 Germans were killed, while some 13,000 Jews were massacred. The remaining 50,000 who survived were promptly sent off to concentration camps.

Hitler on Glenn Beck

via Democratic Underground

The Mystery of Hitler's Gun

The New York Post published a fascinating article about Hitler's favorite pistol.

Among these many treasures was a case containing a gold-plated semiautomatic pistol. Hitler’s initials were inlaid with gold on the ivory grips. This was the gift of Carl Walther, whose family made hundreds of thousands of weapons sold worldwide. Of all his gifts, Hitler, who had a fondness for firearms, particularly prized the pistol and, after the day’s festivities, had the pistol shipped to Munich, where he kept it in a desk drawer in his apartment.

Sounds like some of the guys I know, "prized pistol," and "fondness for firearms."

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Hitler's Precious Stormtroopers

Think Progress provided this video which seems better suited to The Onion.

American Family Association’s (AFA) homophobic Director of Issue Analysis for Government and Public Policy, Bryan Fischer, is constantly pushing an extreme anti-gay agenda, even going after people he just thinks might be gay. This week on AFA Radio, he claimed that not only was Adolf Hitler gay, but all his “Brownshirts” were too: