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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Of course it's not the only reason and Ben Carson wouldn't say it was. His point is people couldn't arm themselves and protect themselves because their rights were slowly taken away one by one.  How is this controversial?[/quote]

Carson does seem to be putting a lot of emphasis on gun control and not much on other "reasons":

[quote]The CNN presenter asked Carson: "If there had been no gun control laws in Europe at that time, would six million Jews have been slaughtered?"

He replied: "I think the likelihood of Hitler being able to accomplish his goals would have been greatly diminished if the people had been armed… I'm telling you that there is a reason that these dictatorial people take the guns first."[/quote]

Jewish groups generally don't agree with Carson about this and the ADL's reaction

[quote]Ben Carson has a right to his views on gun control, but the notion that Hitler’s gun-control policy contributed to the Holocaust is historically inaccurate.  The small number of personal firearms available to Germany’s Jews in 1938 could in no way have stopped the totalitarian power of the Nazi German state.  When they had weapons, Jews could symbolically resist, as they did in the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and elsewhere, but they could not stop the Nazi genocide machine.  In short, gun control did not cause the Holocaust; Nazism and anti-Semitism did.[/quote]
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