It’s such a crime that our public education system has failed so miserably to teach its students to read, comprehend, think critically and have a basic understanding of history. Debe Terhar’s post stated a simple fact. Hitler removed guns from the hands of private citizens. This enabled him to consolidate his power over the people of Germany and become the brutal dictator we remember. Compared to Stalin and Mao, Hitler’s Holocaust of his people paled in comparison. Both Stalin and Mao also removed weapons from private hands before annihilating their opposition.
Unlike the constant drumbeat we heard for eight years from the left and the press during the Bush administration, that Bush was Hitler, there was no claim in Terhar’s post that Obama was Hitler. The post merely pointed out the horrible results from Hitler’s gun control actions as a warning of the dire consequences we could face from Obama’s gun control desires.
Is that any worse than warning a child that putting his hand on a hot stove would result in a painful burn? Is it now a crime to add historical context to our debates about current policies? I guess it only violates the first amendment and becomes a crime when it puts a leftist in bad light, because the books and movies about killing Bush were protected by the First Amendment.