Sunday, November 09, 2014

Jewish gun group remembers Kristallnacht on 76th anniversary

To those who would “whistle past the graveyard of history,” deny that brutal tyranny could ever happen here, and call talk of armed defense against it unsupportable and even treasonous, where in history is any civilization guaranteed stasis? Has not despotism and mass destruction plagued every civilization that preceded ours? Is it not, in fact, still commonplace throughout the globe? By what suspension of reality, by what denial of the observable and the probable, by what art, device or magic are we sheltered few immune from catastrophe? Are we certain, from our brief and privileged vantage point, that such things will ever remain headline curiosities? Is it not naive, willfully blind or fraudulent to proclaim that our familiar way of life will forever be the norm, when everything that has gone before us shows we are, instead, the extremely lucky beneficiaries of a rare and fortunate convergence of circumstances -- and one, by the way, that has only been preserved under force of arms? [More]
Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes there's only one way to ensure the phrase "Never again" is more than just words.

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