So in the Internet 1.x era there was a libertarian-camped group called Jews For the Protection of Firearms Ownership (JPFO), who sent me mail in college after I won a free-market.net drawing

They were, along with that rich wizard funding the Defense Distributed guy’s 3D-printed guns, the inspiration for the HEAP (Holocaust Education and Avoidance Pod) guys in Cryptonomicon. Sworn to widespread gun distribution as their Never Again alternative to state-centric “R2P” in a post-Cold War order that picked up on the victorious West’s rickety “opposite of the Holocaust” legitimating myth and ran with it.

They modeled their emotional appeals – “if only they had guns!” – on the examples of Finnish snipers and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

The first of which established that experienced hunters on local arctic ground could harry the greenest troops enough to pull back from the lowest-priority, most-overextended theater

(which isn’t nothing! Canada has an amazing sniper program on the back of native arctic hunters!)

The second of which was a useless spasm, they fault the Resistance for not giving them more guns. But guns are scarce in partisan warfare and “inflicting slightly more damage on a force commuting in to your surrounded pocket from their barracks down the street” is the most useless expenditure

The thing is the last realistic chance the Jews of Germany had to improve their situation by collective mobilization of private arms was the Sparticist Uprising and “if socialists start a revolution join in even if as a professional you distrust them” was the exact opposite of JPFO’s intended takeaway