Gun Control: The Fringe Factor
BY Herschel Smith10 years, 1 month ago
Caitlin Dickson at The Daily Beast:
“Gun control has never been about guns. It’s about control,” declared Jan Morgan, gun rights activist and head of a group called Armed American Women. At a South Carolina Tea Party convention earlier this month, Morgan promoted the thoroughly debunked theory that gun control allowed Hitler’s rise to power. “In the twentieth century folks, 170 million people have been annihilated by their own governments after being disarmed,” she claimed. “So, don’t let anybody tell you that disarming America is going to make us a safer place.”
We’ve discussed this before, and no one to my knowledge has ever alleged that gun control generally had anything to do with Hitler’s rise to power or the Nazi machine within Germany. It had to do with gun control specifically. Or in other words, it wasn’t gun control that was the problem. It was gun control as applied to so-called enemies of the state, while the Nazis had all the guns they wanted.
But read Caitlin again. This idea hasn’t just been debunked. It has been “thoroughly debunked.” And her source? Why, Salon, to be sure. That’s what happens when ditzy girls who write for The New Republic and The Daily Beast become … ahem … researchers. Fringe factor indeed.
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