New York Times editorial board puts themselves further ahead in competition for a future Julius Streicher Award.

The New York Times says:

The dark and nonsensical fantasy that the United States government will one day transform itself into a jackbooted fascist state and seize American weaponry has long been peddled by the gun lobby to stir up donations to its cause. It is the reason the federal background check system is not allowed to keep records of people who are approved to buy guns — advocates claimed that doing so would lead to a national gun registry and thus a road map for the storm troopers to know whose door to kick down in their rabid search for a revolver.

On the other hand, I wrote this almost 14 years ago:

As an amateur historian of this sad century whose time is almost up, I would like to reflect upon six lessons I have learned in my studies. Folks who wish to live free and prosperous in the next century would do well to understand the failures of the past.

LESSON NO. 1: If a bureaucrat, or a soldier sent by a bureaucrat, comes to knock down your door and take you someplace you do not want to go because of who you are or what you think -- kill him. If you can, kill the politician who sent him. You will likely die anyway, and you will be saving someone else the same fate. For it is a universal truth that the intended victims always far outnumber the tyrant's executioners. Any nation which practices this lesson will quickly run out of executioners and tyrants, or they will run out of it.

LESSON NO. 2: If a bureaucrat, or a soldier sent by a bureaucrat, comes to knock down your door and confiscate your firearms -- kill him. The disarmament of law-abiding citizens is the required precursor to genocide.

LESSON NO. 3: If a bureaucrat tells you that he must know if you have a firearm so he can put your name on a list for the common good, or wants to issue you an identity card so that you be more easily identified -- tell him to go to hell. Registration of people and firearms is the required precursor to the tyranny which permits genocide. Bureaucrats cannot send soldiers to doors that are not on their list.

Of course, the New York Times editorial board has long been seeking a future Julius Streicher Award for criminal collectivism in service of proposed tyranny. Sad to say, one day they might win it with the civil war they solicit.

There is no house rule that prohibits tyranny coming to America. Nor is there any historical principle which will prevent the lickspittles of tyranny from being dealt with by an enraged population of intended victims after that tyranny is overthrown. Indeed, history is replete with such examples. For there is certainly the ironclad Law of Unintended Consequences. Julius Streicher, Hitler's favorite journalist, found that out.