Leftist Writer Channeling NAZIs?

Pulse writer echos pro-NAZI dogma

There has been a lot of letters about gun control in the Omaha World Herald’s letter section, fondly known and titled as the Public Pulse. However, I have ferociously refused to engage in the latest gun debate there because of the horrendous idiocies of the left and the fact many writers are happy to rebut the most idiotic of letters.

The letters of gun control advocates are so silly, I have reposted the letters to gun rights groups on social media. Many are stunned at the amount of public ignorance on guns. The obsession over the AR15 (which comes in many variations) is absurd. What gun is used does not matter when the target is unarmed and undefended such as turkeys, pheasants, ducks or . . . . school children.

Partly, I can tell people are merely responding to what they see on television and social media. The television outlets have to sell ads to make money, so we get flooded with sensationalist coverage which tugs at our heartstrings.

However, I have written my share of Pulse letters to the point I have an arch-nemesis named Jim Bechtel. He has been around for decades and is prolific in pushing left-wing dogma and writes Pulse letters When and if he ever refers to me, he refers to me as a “Libertarian dogmatist”, which is so last century, or an Ayn Rand cult member or Trump cult member, or something else along such lines. I met him once years ago and he is steeped in the progressive socialist left.

But today, the Herald published a Bechtel letter which causes me to wonder what sources Bechtel is using. I realize Nebraska was settled by many German immigrants who have some affinity for Germany. This is partly why there are Hitler-lovers in Nebraska. Also, the NAZIs were socialists and their dogma tends to circle in some areas on the far left such as Omaha. This is probably why Omaha has seen a swastika burned into the lawn of Memorial Park a few years back. (https://www.ketv.com/article/vandals-scorch-swastika-into-grass-at-memorial-park/22507408)

In responding to a Pulse writer, Bechtel mentioned Hitler where no other writer had. See below:

Bechtel is misconstruing the facts. Hitler did not loosen gun laws but changed the laws to his advantage, and disarmed the Jewish German population. He took advantage of the gun control laws of the Weimer Republic. This article tries to explain the complexity of the history https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/1327/.

National Review gives the gun rights perspective on German laws here. https://wyoleg.gov/InterimCommittee/2019/01-201910313-04Handout.pdf

Many in the Jewish Community will probably miss what I see in Bechtel’s letter and flat-out support gun control. The organization, Jews for the Preservation of Firearm Ownership has argued on this topic (http://jpfo.org/articles-assd02/why-jews-hate-guns.htm). But Bechtel is sourcing some bizarre information.

I would give Bechtel the benefit of a doubt if someone else had mentioned Hitler, and he was refuting what they said, but he did not. Here is the letter of the person he is trying to refute. It mentions Germany, but not Hitler.

Mr. Whitler is referring to known information on genocide (http://jpfo.org/filegen-a-m/deathgc.htm#chart)

Many anti-Semites and Hitler-lovers will dispute the nearly 6 million Jews murdered by the NAZIs as do some historians. What these people neglect is to what extent Jewish communities in Europe, especially eastern Europe, had been conditioned to be disarmed. The Weimer Republic of Germany did this with gun control. Switzerland was never invaded and remained neutral throughout the war because all of their citizens were armed. If Poland or Germany had been armed like Switzerland, there would be no Holocaust to speak of.

So, I am left wondering what provoked Bechtel to refer to Hitler’s history while simultaneously ignoring the fact Hitler disarmed Jews. Is he so passionate to win the argument to the point of neglecting the obvious and easy rebuttal to his claims? Is he just a progressive Jew sourcing progressive sources or is he an atheist progressive listening in on anti-Semites and channeling their arguments? Or is he fostering NAZI arguments for gun control by concealing what the NAZIs actually did?

I think Bechtel has bought into the anti-Semitic lies being fostered by either white supremacists or neo-NAZIs or progressives borrowing from such dogma. The anti-Capitalists and Socialists are often covert anti-Semites. Perhaps I might be overthinking the matter, but why put forth such an idiotic argument as Bechtel had?

I want to write a response to the Pulse on his letter but the topic is just too arcane. At the same time, how can I just let his horrible distortion of history slide on by? I can’t. Jewish people are part of America and have been since the beginning. The right of self-defense is inalienable. Why is Bechtel bringing up Hitler when the argument clearly fails? I am hoping a Pulse writer will come forward and set the record straight. I also hope the Omaha Jewish community will embrace an honest debate on the topic while rejecting extreme and irrational arguments.