Guns won't make you brave

Guns won't make you a warrior

They don't. But they make your oppressor scared of uniting everyone against them.

@DanielKO
It don't mean much when they can kill everyone

The idea that "if they had guns this wouldn't have happened" is just nonsense

If you know you're going to die if they come and take you away, wouldn't rather die trying to kill as many as you could?

@DanielKO
Yeah, how many they killed again?

I think guns would have significantly altered the logistics and efficacy of arresting all the Jews.

How many knew they were going to die and did nothing?

Yes, Hitler could then put more effort into locking down cities for the purges, but how much more expensive would it be?

How many willing entered the trains?

Hoe many watched while the SS executed them in front of them?

The majority of the populace don't stand up and fight in either case; but when word gets around of mass killings and reprisals, that tends to have the opposite effect of making people docile; formerly cooperative citizens will do the bare minimum required of them, and only when under the supervision of the occupying forces. It's one of the many reasons German equipment got progressively worse as they were using citizens from occupied countries to build their own weapons of war, leading to numerous sabotaged weaponry rolling out of the factory and towards the front lines. Other citizens who don't 'stand up and fight' whom had family amongst the dead have a renewed reason to assist in any way they can, even if it's just relaying information to resistance fighters

Yeah, but how many actually did that?

It's a pretty small number, right?

The 1938 act ("Regulations Against Jews' Possession of Weapons") came into effect *after* Kristallnacht

Look, who wanted to fight did, and died fighting

There is a lot of examples of that

what tism is going on here

Some of then had guns? Yeah, some don't

And they fought the same way

This wasn't a case of Hitler waking up one day and going 'time to get rid of the gunzzzzzzzzzz'

It was incremental over several years, dismantling the ability of his opponents to mount any effective opposition to him in *any* fashion

I get it

Still, people who wanted to fight

Did it

And people have a habit of denying the horror of what is happening, and delaying the inevitable

Some dude with a gun shows up at your door and tells you to get on a train

And you have no way to do anything about it

You get on the train

and hope for the best

The majority of people would do it

Reaps, the cold harsh truth is

The majority of the world population are just followers

Sheeps

Or whatever you want to call them

Most people don't have in them what it takes to stand up and fight for something

There are some that can acquire some fighting spirit? Yeah

Someone that saw an heroic act and decided to stand up against what's happening

But the majority of the population, will just lower their heads and move on with their lives

If, say, Venezuelans, had guns, would they tearing a cow to shreds to eat, or would they be on a shootout with the government?