A 2011 open letter from Dovid Bendory , who was the rabbinic director of JPFO , to then New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg , asked : " Are you aware that the Nazis disarmed Jews prior to Kristallnacht and that those same Nazi gun laws are the foundation of the U.S. Gun Control Act of 1968 ? " In October 2015 , U.S. Republican Presidential Primaries candidate Ben Carson said that Hitler 's mass murder of Jews " would have been greatly diminished " if Germans had not been disarmed by the Nazis
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Nazi gun control argument