I admit, I’ve not seen the film Innocents Betrayed but I know its basic theme and it is that many atrocities followed gun control. Willy E. Gutman non-gets it and non-sums it up with:

Such inference, made post priori, is fallacious in that it assumes that one event is caused by another merely because it follows it.

No one assumes any such thing. They assume that because one thing happened, that another thing was possible. You’ve changed the argument.

Failing to consider factors such as counter evidence – think Masada, think the Warsaw Ghetto, think Waco, Texas – the film does not convincingly explain how people would have resisted their tormentors had they possessed firearms

Err, you what guns do, right? I mean, it’s not a secret. As opposed to running or complying, you would be able to shoot back.

All it does is postulate that “disarmament is necessary to make possible the mass murder of helpless citizens” – ergo, that citizens should resist gun control and arm themselves.

Well, yeah, because that’s rather the point. Or this quote:

There is no doubt in my mind that millions of lives could have been saved if the people had not been “brainwashed” about gun ownership and they had been well armed. Hitler’s thugs and goons were not very brave when confronted by a gun. Gun haters always want to forget the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, which is a perfect example of how a ragtag, half starved group of Jews took up 10 handguns and made asses out of the Nazi’s.

— Theodore Haas, former prisoner of the infamous Dachau prisoner concentration camp

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