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\u2019s 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 \u201cR2P\u201d in a post-Cold War order that picked up on the victorious West\u2019s rickety \u201copposite of the Holocaust\u201d legitimating myth and ran with it.
They modeled their emotional appeals \u2013 \u201cif only they had guns!\u201d \u2013 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\u2019t 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 \u201cinflicting slightly more damage on a force commuting in to your surrounded pocket from their barracks down the street\u201d 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 \u201cif socialists start a revolution join in even if as a professional you distrust them\u201d was the exact opposite of JPFO\u2019s intended takeaway
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