How can we regulate guns ... ?

How about historical evidence? Documents, news reports, contemporary writings of people. We have all those things for the Beer Hall Putsch, Kristallnacht and the The Night of the Long Knives. But there does not seem to be anything about the time Hitler used gun registration records to round people up.
That would have been stupid as he had the support of many Germans. He ascended to the Chancellorship through legal means. Gun owners were not round up. As a matter of fact gun ownership was expanded in 1938. Ownership laws were loosened so that age for legal possession was lowered from 20 to 18 and it completely lifted restriction on all guns except handguns, as well as on ammunition. But they don't give sources do they. Original sources.

Faith, although I know you do not trust Wikipedia, because the filthy liberals () have gotten hold of it, but it does not agree with your statement that the Nazis made a confiscation effort (except from the Jews), nor do many other sites.The first gun laws that were placed on the books in Germany actually took place after the First World War, far before the Nazis came to power. After the Treaty of Versailles, Germany enacted the Regulations on Weapons Ownership in 1919. This law declared that: However, this law was enacted by the Weimar Republic, not by the Nazis and this is the exact strict gun laws that you are speaking of.The next law that was passed was in 1920 and was entitles the Law on Disarmament of the People. This law simply put the laws required by the Treaty of Versailles into effect.The next law that was passed was in 1928 and was called the Law on Firearms and Ammunition. This was the first reduction in the restrictions that had been placed on firearms in Germany after World War I. According to the wiki, this law stated that: Seems like the restrictions are becoming less and less and guess what, we still are not even to the Nazi rise to power which occurred in 1933. So, these strict laws (which were loosened as time progressed) were not Nazi laws, so what exactly did the Nazis do when it came to gun controlIn 1938, the Germans passed the 1938 German Weapons Act. This new law, created by the Nazi Regime, superseded the Law on Firearms and Ammunition. However, opposite of your claim, this law relaxed the restrictions on guns even more. According to the Wiki: So, it appears that the Germans had more gun rights under the Nazis than they did under the previous regime. In fact, rifles and shotguns did not even require a permit! The one stipulation was that Jewish individuals were not allowed to possess weapons, which was because the process of blaming them for all German problems was under way. However, where were these upstanding armed German citizens when the regime began to take their friends and neighbors away? It seems like it was not gun control which led to genocide. Rather, a large effort of getting a country to fall for group think and utilizing propaganda to control the hearts and minds of a people that had been forced into submission and a feeling of weakness with the previous treaty they had signed.References:
Gun control in Germany - Wikipedia
The Hitler gun control lie | Salon.com

Oh yeah I for got to mention this.
The quote from Hitler that you will see on all your right wing propaganda sites.

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This year will go down in history! For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!

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Is bogus. There is no evidence he said anything like this. Made up, not real, a lie.

How about the Fort Hood shootings that took place on an army base?

Somehow, needing to be constantly surrounded by the secret service and other armed guards has been distorted into being some kind of privilege rather than the actual nightmare it truly is.I'm sure there is a short, catchy way to demonstrate this that someone will come up with. I'm not artsy-craftsy enough to do it, but isn't it obvious that nobody sane wants their children forted up 24 X 7?

Well by the same reasoning that every child deserves an armed guard because the President has one, every citizen deserves an Air Force 1 because the President has one.

My guess is that current laws only prescribe this penalty for first degree murder of any type. Are you suggesting that, for example, 2nd degree murder with a gun should result in life imprisonment?

Would never stand up to judicial review anyway.

You - and other gun advocates - Really need to decide what the basis for your position is. Because at the moment you are relentlessly and shamelessly flip flopping between several different positions. One minute disputing that there is any correlation between gun prevalence and homicide rates at all, the next minute disputing that correlation is suggestive of any causal relationship between these factors and the next minute asserting that the correlation between these factors is the result of homicidal people causing increased gun numbers.It really smacks of making any argument at all to defend that which you have already decided. You need to get your story straight. Because at the moment it looks like you are just saying anything in order stop yourself from drawing a conclusion about guns that you won't like. With that in mind please answer the following:1) Do you accept a correlation between gun prevalence and homicide rates?2) Do you accept that this correlation isn't just random and that it is in fact due to a causal relationship between the two things?3) What do you think the nature of the causal relationship between these factors is? (i.e. what causes what) I am absolutely in favour of evidence based conclusions.Would you support the full range of measures implemented in New York, including gun regulations, being implemented in other areas to see if similarly positive results can be achieved?

Yikes.It took awhile, but I was able to convince my kids that "They say" isn't a citation. And yet giving us a source is the absolute minimum. When the sources are provided, that is when the vetting begins. What you are asking us to do is just to accept your impression of what some unknown person wrote. Not going to happen.Perhaps this is more of the stuff that ought to be on your blog.

Even true irrelevancies are still irrelevancies, RAZD.

The books themselves are sources, so are the reviews and so is the video. These are not your kids, these are people who studied the issues. Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

No, the idea is that if armed guards are considered to be necessary to make anyone safe then they are the obvious solution to the school shooter problem. This has nothing to do with needing air force one.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

I didn't quote it so you're lying to make an issue of it in relation to anything I said.

I am well aware that the Weimar Republic put the gun laws in place that Hitler made use of later. Where have I said anything different?Edited by Faith, : No reason given.