Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson was criticized by Jewish groups this week for arguing that the Holocaust could have been “greatly diminished” if Germans had access to guns.
But he has a defender in Fox News’ Dr. Keith Ablow.
Ablow, who is Jewish and said he hosted a fundraiser for Carson, wrote an op-ed Friday on Fox News’ website titled “Why Ben Carson is right about Jews, the Holocaust and guns.” The psychiatrist went even further than Carson in arguing that German Jews not only never should have acquiesced to handing over their firearms, but should have forcefully resisted the Nazi government from its start.
“The mindset that Jews surrendered with their guns is far more important than the hardware they turned over: They surrendered the demonstrated intention, at all costs, to resist being deprived of liberty,” Ablow wrote. “If Jews in Germany had more actively resisted the Nazi party or the Nazi regime and had diagnosed it as a malignant and deadly cancer from the start, there would, indeed, have been a chance for the people of that country and the world to be moved to action by their bold refusal to be enslaved.”
Ablow qualified that “hindsight is 20/20” before he faulted Holocaust victims for not fighting back against their Nazi oppressors at all costs.
“It turns out it was a bad idea for any Jew to have turned over a gun,” he wrote. “It was a bad idea for any Jew to have boarded a train. It was a bad idea for any Jew to have passed through a gate into a camp. It was a bad idea for any Jew to do any work at any such camp. It was a bad idea for any Jew to not attempt to crush the skull or scratch out the eyes of any Nazi who turned his back for one moment. And every bullet that would have been fired into a Nazi coming to a doorway to confiscate a gun from a Jew would have been a sacred bullet.”
Consider the source. Ablow is the same idiot he was when he claimed that Newt Gingrich’s adulterous ways would make him a good president.
Ablow s a Shock Doc. He will say and do anything for attention. He shouldn’t be treating patients. He’s the one who needs a psychiatrist.
He’s bleeding nuts! I have no idea how many Jews owned guns in the 1930s in Germany, but I would be shocked if many if any, did. One person w/ a weapon would not have been confronted by one Nazi w/ a gun: he/she’d be confronted by a squad of Nazis holding guns - maybe Ablow & Carson think those are good odds to start a firefight = I’m damn glad I was born in the US of A, or in the altermative that the Allies won WWII -= otherwise, I would have been gassed. So would Ablow
Ablow’s premise is a repetition of LaPierre’s lie.
The notion that Hitler took away guns or supported gun control is a myth. In fact as someone pointed out yesterday here (my apologies for forgetting who), Hitler did the opposite. The preceding Weimar Republic had strict gun regulations while Hitler’s 1938 law de-regulated the ownership and transfer of guns. Hence (as wrong as the comparison would be) it would be less inaccurate to compare America to Hitler’s Germany due to America’s lack of uniform gun regulation than to blame the holocaust on gun control.
I never realized how easy it would have been for German Jews to have defeated the SS and the Germany military. It would have been easy. Just say no. Because when they were told to board the trains, if they had just said no, the Nazis would have left them alone. They certainly wouldn’t have forced them to board, or kill them when they didn’t. They were just nice guys who would have left them alone if they had only refused to participate in the holocaust.
I’ve come up with a name for Dr Ablow’s position at Fox News. It’s an Ablowjob.