Twitter user “Sidney W.,” allegedly a German, tweeted, “As a German I don’t understand what guns have to do with freedom”:
As a German I don't understand what guns have to do with freedom
— Sidney W.🇩🇪🇺🇲🇺🇦 (@wahlstedt007) May 22, 2022
. . .and then the ratio began:
I know https://t.co/KJv8l6f0qJ
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) May 22, 2022
Who wants to tell him?
Of course you don’t. https://t.co/707a3JYHBT
— Sean Bannion (@SeanBannion) May 22, 2022
Do any “history buffs” in the room want to weigh in?
https://twitter.com/MattsIdeaShop/status/1528477255759953922
First up, there’s that whole pesky section of German history where his people attempted to exterminate all the Jews in his country:
https://twitter.com/MelissaTweets/status/1528435134978052101
Maybe he should start there?
The country that disarmed the Jews in the 1930's has thoughts on gun ownership relating to freedom.
It's a bad opinion and you're finding out why.
— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) May 22, 2022
But we’ll help he get started on his research:
As an American, I'll be glad to explain it to you: Europeans were liberated from German tyranny and terror in the 1940s by men with guns.
And as a Jew, I grieve for all those unarmed victims who were murdered by Germany before liberation came. https://t.co/wK9dmQxYIf
— Jeff Jacoby (@Jeff_Jacoby) May 22, 2022
There’s also the Ukraine flag in his bio. That’s a real nice touch:
https://twitter.com/GPollowitz/status/1528426738534998018
Guns — what are the good for?
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The number of pro-Ukrainian people saying “guns don’t have anything to do with freedom” is sadly amusing. https://t.co/dbSOiKRMjE
— Rangermonk (@rangermonk1) May 22, 2022
At least he knows what he’s in for:
Because of this tweet I will get a lot of bad comments again
— Sidney W.🇩🇪🇺🇲🇺🇦 (@wahlstedt007) May 22, 2022
And, as a German, he should know that the word that describes our dunking is schadenfreude, the “pleasure derived by someone from another person’s misfortune.”
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