On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 12:00:38 -0800, you wrote: > > At 10:44 AM -0800 2/11/03, Tim May wrote: > >But in postmodern America mentioning guns is simply NOT DONE. Not even > >on the Fox Network, a more rightward network than the others. (Being > >right no longer means mentioning guns, as Ashcroft and Cheney and the > >like would prefer that guns be in the hands of der polizei. There's a > >reason Hitler confiscated guns held privately by Germans.) > > Firearms permits were instituted in the late 1920s and were required for ownership >of firearms, ammunition, or the legal ability to manufacture either. > > When Hitler came to power, he had the laws changed so that only members of the Nazi >party could obtain a firearms permit. > -- > J. Eric Townsend -- jet spies com > buy stuff, damnit: http://www.spies.com/jet/store.html
This one just won't die. People keep repeating it. Not much different from Bush's "Time is running out" or "They hate us because we love freedom". Would you like to show us the part of the twelve page German law of March, 1938 that limits gun permits to members of the Nazi party? Uh huh, I didn't think so.
