Carson Defends His Nazi Comments: ‘It’s Not Hyperbole’ (VIDEO)

Nazi analogies are the first refuge of a lazy mind.

He is right, its not hyperbole. Its a complete and utter lie.

Its rather ironic that the right wants to constantly say that Clinton is untrustworthy, when we now have Carson telling lies, and then repeating them when its pointed out that he is indeed, completely and utterly wrong. Same with Fiorinia…no video tape, let alone the one she named, shows what she described. But she keeps on insisting it does…a complete lie.

The people you shouldn’t trust are people who tell you complete lies to your face, that you KNOW are false. And continue to do so. THATS untrustworthy.

“I think the likelihood of Hitler being able to accomplish his goals would have been greatly diminished if the people had been armed,” Carson replied. “There’s a reason that these dictatorial people take the guns first.”

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Few citizens owned, or were entitled to own firearms in Germany in the 1930s.The Weimar Republic had strict gun control laws. When the Third Reich gained power, some aspects of gun regulation were loosened, such as allowing ownership for Nazi party members and the military. The laws were harshened in other ways. Nazi laws disarmed “unreliable” persons, especially Jews, but relaxed restrictions for “ordinary” German citizens.The policies were later expanded to include the confiscation of arms in occupied countries

In a 2011 magazine piece, law professor Mark Nuckols says Nazi gun control theories are part of a “shaky intellectual edifice” underlying “belief in widespread gun ownership as a defense against tyrannical government.” He says the idea is “gaining traction with members of Congress as well as fringe conspiracy theorists.” In his 2011 book, fellow law professor Adam Winkler says: “This radical wing of the gun rights movement focuses less on the value of guns for self-defense against criminals than on their value for fighting tyranny.” He says the militia groups that grew in number across the U.S. after the early 1990s organized “to fight off what they saw as an increasingly tyrannical federal government and what they imagined was the inevitable invasion of the United States by the United Nations.” Winkler wrote that “[to] some on the fringe,” the Brady bill “was proof that the government was determined to deprive Americans of their constitutional rights.”

If only there was some push-back from a well informed mainstream media. Maybe then that long needed conversation on gun control would be a fruitful one.

Anyhow, back to today’s ‘movie’, Tony Brando, Hoppy Brando and Skittles the wonder moose in that NFL.com Fantasy football classic ‘Fear of a Patriots blowout.’