We Are More Afraid Than Ever of Gun Violence, But the Truth Is the Murder Rate Is at a 50-Year Low

[Straw Man]

40. 1200 saved by the Bielski group.

A few guns against the government is suicide...what lives would have been saved?

"Without a rifle you are nothing, worthless, you are waiting for death, any minute, any second."

-- Aron Bielski

Read more at: http://www.azquotes.com/quote/608042

Operating in Western Belorussia (Belarus) between 1942 and 1944, the Bielski partisan group was one of the most significant Jewish resistance efforts against Nazi Germany during World War II.

While its members did fight against the Germans and their collaborators, the Bielski group leaders emphasized providing a safe haven for Jews, particularly women, children, and elderly persons who managed to flee into the forests. Under the protection of the Bielski group, more than 1,200 Jews survived the war, one of the most successful rescue efforts during the Holocaust.

-- https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/BielskiBrothers.html

A drop in the bucket, perhaps, but very significant to those who comprised that drop.