At an Alaska Municipal League (AML) meeting in Juneau last Thursday, Young was asked what should be done to prevent school shootings. “What can municipalities do?
What can the federal government do to stop the massacre of children in our schools?” asked Dimitri Shein, a Democratic candidate running for Young’s seat.
Young responded by arguing that teachers should be armed. He then invoked the Holocaust to argue that making sure everyone had guns was the best solution.
“How many millions of people were shot and killed because they were unarmed? Fifty million in Russia, because their citizens weren’t armed,” Young said.
“How many Jews were put into the ovens because they were unarmed?”The comment is anti-Semitic, outrageous, and incredibly stupid, but just in case you need a debunking: That is not why or how the Holocaust happened.
Holy shit is this a stupid argument.
This fantasy that armed individuals can overcome a country's military has been disproved time and time again.
You only have to look to the resistance fighters in Afghanistan and Iraq to realize that.
I sometimes get criticized for picking on Texas, and other states in the South.
I ridicule states like Texas, Florida, Georgia, and others because they are fucked up and deserving of ridicule.
But that in no way means that I consider Alaska any less fucked up, or any less deserving of ridicule.
And until we finally get rid of this dinosaur and replace him with somebody who actually wants to move our state forward, we deserve every bit of ridicule directed our way.
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