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April 29, 1988 - Image 10

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must not forsake the
means to protect themselves
was learned too late to thwart
the most heinous crime in
human history. Hitler's war
against the Jews. Hitler
delivered ample warning of
accession to power in 1933.
The early virulence of Nazi
anti-Semitism in itself was
not an aberration in Euro-
pean annals but followed a
long history of anti-Jewish
massacres, pogroms and
generalized persecution. If
anything, the rabidness of
anti-Semitism was intensify-
ing beginning with the
Dreyfus affair in France in
the late 19th century.
Unlike the Jewish settlers
in Palestine, however, Euro-
pean Jewry of the 1930s
largely failed to procure
weapons and to organize ef-
fective measures for self-
defense. How would European
and Jewish history been
transformed if, similar to the
Jewish secret army in
Palestine, the Haganah, a
comparable proportion of
European Jewish men and
women had obtained and
learned to use guns to fight
Nazi tyranny? This is not to
underestimate the obstacles
the Nazis would have posed to
the formation of such an op-
posing force. They still would
have succeeded in killing
many Jews. Yet, it is in-
conceivable that, faced with a
concerted resistance, Hitler
could have systemacily exter-
minated six million Jews in
only four years.
The efficacy of resistance,
even against an enemy with
apparently overwhelming ad-
vantages in weaponry and
manpower, was illustrated by
the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
which was a source of conster-
nation for Goebbels. By 1943,
all but 40,000 of the ghetto's
Jewish population, which
once had exceeded half a
million, had been deported to
Treblinka, Auschwitz and
other death camps.
"Our docility earned us
nothing," railed historian and
eyewitness Emanuel
Ringelblum. "This must not
be repeated now," he told his
fellow Jews in the Warsaw
ghetto. "We must put up a
resistance, defend ourselves
against the enemy, man and
child."
About 1,200 Jewish fighters
shared his views and, armed
only with. small pistols,
grenades and incendiary bot-
tles, revolted against the full
military might of the Nazi SS.
Governor-General Hans
Frank spoke of the immediate
need to use cannons against
the "pointedly dangerous"
revolt.
Consider the impact upon

the Nazi design for mass
murder had a Warsaw Ghet-
to revolt been launched three
years earlier with like
resistance in the Jewish com-
munities and ghettoes
throughout occupied Europe.
The calamitous and
ultimately triumphant
history of 20th century Jewry,
far from buttressing the case
for governmental control over
the ossession of guns, instead
confirms the wisdom of the
founding fathers who warned
against taking arms from
citizens. James Madison in
Federalist No. 46 viewed a
well-armed public an essen-
tial to preserve and
guarantee freedom against
tyrannical governments that
are "afraid to trust the people
with arms . . . Let us not in-
sult the free and gallant
citizens of America with the
suspicion that they would be
less able to defend the rights
of which they would be in an
actual possession, than the
debased subjects of arbitrary
power would be to rescue
theirs from the hands of their
oppressors."
In contrast, advocates of
gun control in effect repose
blind faith in governments to
respect the lives, liberty and
property of their citizens.
Last year's verdict ex-
onerating Bernhard Goetz for
attempted murder of his sub-
way assailants, however, is
only the latest manifestation
of skepticism over the ability
and willingness of govern-
ments at all levels even to
protect their people from
depredations of private per-
sons by apprehending and ap-
propriately punishing violent
criminals. The prosecution's
success in obtaining a convic-
tion againt Goetz for illegal
possession of the gun that the
jury found he rightfully used
to defend himself only points
up the inequity of gun control
laws employed to punish vic-
tims or potential victims of
violent crime. At least one
gun control advocate, Yeshiva
University Law Professor
Peter Lushing, in a letter to
the New York Times on June
28, urged as the solution to
what he termed the "Goetz
problem" tougher penalties
for future Goetzes who carry
guns to defend themselves
rather than for the thugs who
prey upon them.
The different fates of Euro-
pean and Israeli Jews in the
past half century demon-
strate the folly of a disarmed
citizenry entrusting its rights
and welfare to the supposed
benevolence of its govern-
ment. None should be more
cognizant of this than the
Jewish organizations so
enamored of gun control.

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