Last week, one of the U.S. presidential candidates made a rather ignorant statement about gun control and the Holocaust.  The Warsaw Ghetto revolt is the immediately obvious example to look at.<p>This piece is really an advertisement for the author&#x27;s upcoming book, and this piece seems pretty obviously cribbed from one of his chapters.  It reads less oddly if you read the title of the book, and go look at the description on the Amazon link, and realize that it fits into a philosophical work on the justifiable use of force in the Judeo-Christian tradition.