A timely look back, considering Israeli Prime Minister Olmert's idiocies. The second paragraph of the article is a pure delight. Hattip Instapundit.
Precis:
Contrary to myth of Jewish passivity, many Jews did fight back during the Holocaust. They shut down the extermination camp at Sobibor, rose up in the Warsaw Ghetto, and fought in the woods and swamps all over Eastern Europe. Indeed, Jews resisted at a higher rate than did any other population under Nazi rule. The experience of the Holocaust shows why Jews, and all people of good will, should support the right of potential genocide victims to possess defensive arms, and refutes the notion that violence is necessarily immoral.
David B. Kopel is Research Director of the Independence Institute, in Golden, Colorado, and a member of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. This is a draft of an article that will be published in volume 19 of the Journal on Firearms & Public Policy, in 2007.
I'd no idea there was scholarship done on the history of firearms and public policy. My world view has again been broadened.
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