Sometimes in April Movie Review

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I missed this film last year but recently saw it on HBO. I have read reviews of the film and am disappointed that reviewers have not observed a critical lessen of the film: that an unarmed civilian population is at the mercey of the authorities when they go over the edge. It happened to the Jews in pre-war Europe, to unarmed civilians in Cambodia, and to the Tutsis in Rwanda. What I have taken away from the film, in addition to the failure of the West to intervene, and the potential for chaos & murder when order breaks down, is we must not allow the anti-gun forces in this country(the U.S.) to disarm us. Had the Tutsi civilians been armed, the Hutus would have found the price to be too high to murder them. Had Europe's Jews been armed, the Germans would have found the price too high to murder them. Example, the experience of the Warsaw Ghetto, when a handful of lightly armed Jews held off the Germans for almost a month, and made them pay dearly to round up the last of Poland's Jews. Long live our 2nd Amendment!

-- posted by jpt2002

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