As for the German jews -- they constituted a mere one percent of the German population. By the time the nazis got serious about getting rid of them, there were even fewer -- the majority of German Jews who remained in Germany were women, particularly older ones, who had stayed behind to take care of family matters and gotten trapped.
I must say I found Pratt's crocodile tears about the jews disgusting -- this is a man who was holocaust denier Pat buchanan's regional campaign director before he was fired for being too racist in public.
>
> Counterpunch - July 1-15, 1999
>
> PUT GUNS INTO THE HANDS OF CHILDREN
>
> One of the pleasures of talking to Larry Pratt, executive director of
> the Gun Owners of America, is hearing Charlton Heston denounced as a
> chardonnayswilling Hollywood sellout, only too delighted to betray
> the Second Amendment if it means he gets his face on network tv and
> taken seriously on Capitol Hill.
>
> And it's true. Heston's NRA collapsed in the wake of the Columbine
> killings in Colorado. Only an unusual combo of House conservatives
> and liberals was able to beat back the recent gun bill. Even so Pratt
> still fears that another House bill could get conferenced with New
> Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg's Senate Bill 254, introducing laws
> making it all but impossible for gun shows to continue to operate.
> Liberals hate gun shows, regarding them as the seedbed of all that's
> wrong with America. This is all nonsense. Gun shows do of course
> attract people eager to exercise their Second Amendment rights,
> collector exchange various types of firearms and so forth. They are
> also vibrant rendezvous for important elements of popular American
> culture. They are antigovernment, populist and lots of fun. Which is
> why the better element Lautenberg in the lead, wants to do them in.
>
> Pratt exultantly tells us of a tv debate on Long Island he'd had with
> Rep. Carolyn McCarthy a couple of weeks after the Columbine shooting.
> Rep. McCarthy is the widow of a man killed on a Long Island commuter
> train by the lunatic Colin Ferguson. Was it wrong, Pratt asked, for
> an assistant school principal in Pearl, MS, to have taken a gun from
> his desk drawer and chased a shooter who had already killed two, run
> him off the road and then hold him at gunpoint until the cops arrived
> five minutes later? This happened in 1997.
>
> Pratt says that he put the question to Rep. McCarthy twice, and twice
> she wouldn't answer him. The third time, Pratt says, he answered for
> her, to the effect that she obviously doesn't believe in
> self-protection. Pratt's other debate-stopper, he tells me, is to ask
> his opponent whether it would have been wrong to arm Jews in the
> Warsaw ghetto with machine guns, so that they could have fought back
> against the SS loading them into the cattle cars.
>
> Pratt's solution to the schoolyard killings: Let the teachers bear
> arms, just like they do in South Africa, where one instructor
> recently gunned down a bellicose student. Pratt also faxed us an
> interesting study on urban delinquency, put out by the Office of
> Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (part of the Justice
> Dept.) in 1994. This was a survey of delinquency in Rochester,
> Pittsburgh and Denver, tracking delinquency "pathways," as affected
> by drugs, school attendance, parental oversight, gang membership and
> so forth. The study shows clearly enough that one way of keeping kids
> out of trouble is to let them carry legal guns. Out of 1000 boys and
> girls surveyed in Rochester in the 1980s, some 7 percent of the boys
> own illegal guns by the ninth and 10th grades. Legal guns are held by
> 3 percent. There is a strong correlation between illegal guns and
> delinquency and drug use. Seventy-four percent of the illegal gun
> owners commit street crimes, 24 percent commit gun crimes and 41
> percent use drugs. The Justice Dept. study continues, "Boys who own
> legal firearms, however, have much lower rates of delinquency and
> drug use and are even slightly less delinquent than nonowners of
> guns."
>
> Specifically, of those involved in street crimes, 74 percent had
> illegal guns, 24 percent were nongun owners and 14 percent had legal
> guns. In drug use, the equivalent percentages were 41, 15 and 13. No
> legal gun owner was involved in a gun crime. The authors of the
> report hastily add that the "socialization into gun ownership" is
> very different for legal and illegal gun owners. "For legal
> gun-owners, socialization appears to take place in the family; for
> illegal gun owners, it appears to take place 'on the street.'"
>
> So the first thing is to fix your kid up with a gun permit, plus
> plenty of practice at the target range, thus installing a sense of
> self-respect and social responsibility. The next thing is to make
> sure that your kid does not get a job. Not? This flies in the face of
> every puritan instinct. But the Justice Dept. report is clear:
> "Belief is widespread that work or employment protects us against
> delinquency and gangs. Unfortunately, the faith placed in youth
> employment is not generally supported by empirical findings over the
> last several decades. The relationship between lack of employment and
> crime or drug use found among adults does not seem to hold for
> adolescents." Guess what? "Working youth" have levels of delinquency
> and drug use equal to or even higher than the layabouts on the street
> corners or on the porch. It's logical. The work ethic and the crime
> ethic are closely intertwined, as Max Weber spent many pages
> suggesting.
>
> A final piece of news from the Justice Dept. you already knew: Boot
> camp or lesser coercive assemblies for the delinquents are bad ideas.
> Bringing predelinquent or delinquent peer groups together in school
> or community or coerced association (such as boot camp) merely
> provides the opportunity for shaping "delinquent knowledge" and
> attitudes. They make things worse. Delinquency-prone young people
> should be integrated into generally prosocial groups. "To obtain
> attachment and integration among all youths, school programs that
> ensure that all youth can be successes somewhere in the school
> setting are needed."