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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gun rights is the litmus test

Anybody taking gun rights is a suspected authoritarian.

Zero authoritarians are  pro gun rights

100 percent of authoritarians are pro gun rights for the population [/quote]

This is false.  Hitler did not broadly take gun rights away from Germans, in fact gun rights were expanded from the strict gun controls the Nazi regime inherited from the Weimar Republic.  In 1938, the Nazi Regime passed the German Weapons Act which significantly relaxed gun ownership and gun rights for Party members and "politically reliable" Germans.  In that same law, the right to own or manufacture guns or ammunition was stripped away from Jews and other "enemies of the state" leading to Kristallnacht and the attacks and persecution of Jews.

Australia imposed significant gun restrictions after a shocking mass shooting.  Have they become more authoritarian since then, or as a result of this?  NO.  Not even remotely.  If anything there are far fewer concerns about authoritarianism in Australia than there are in the US.

Your beliefs are mistaken and your narrative is broken and undermined by documented historical facts to the contrary.[/quote]

Hitler did not allow Jews to have guns

Authoritarians take guns because they don't want to get shot[/quote]

Reading is not your strong suit.  He EXPANDED gun rights for non-Jewish Germans.  The OPPOSITE of taking guns away.[/quote]

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