If you outlaw guns, then only....

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Pangloss, you, by your philosophy of life and antigun sentiments, are incapable of resisting genocide, to effect. You may open your mouth to deplore it, but that won't keep you out of the "shower." I'm sure lots of Jews (and Christian Scientists and Gypsies) hollered "No, don't do this!" even louder than you would.

How many live now?

Contrariwise, MaggieL and I, for two, are the ones who by the mere act of owning guns keep you safe from genocide (remember genocide sneaks up on its victims -- starts with a con-job, ends in an Auschwitz). Now why, exactly, should it be only we two to bear that load? You can do your share by attaining skill with firearms and other killing tools, Pangloss.

Pacifism or passivism makes you dead. We resent like hell the prospect of being dragged down to Gehenna with you! When it comes to stopping the Einsatzkommandos, for the avoidable hatreds that set them up were already present, and a basic emotion like hatred will always be among humans, there's nothing like a 7.92mm Mauser slug transecting the brain for doing the stopping -- and justice also, no?

The JPFO's argument that gun control (air quotes if you like, as "control" always takes the form of some sort of actual ban) is the handmaiden of episodes of genocide, sometimes taking decades before the slaughter happens (viz., Cambodia) has never been refuted or rebutted. The idea's been in the public arena for a dozen years now, and no counterargument has ever been put forth.

Before you try and dismiss me as some insensitive crank, consider that I am a decent man who is offended by pogroms. And I can help make one into a fizzle. What's your story? Can you actually claim to have a moral position? If you can't kill a State's barbarians, no you cannot.