1. Current Events Guns in America:
Scenario:
17 students killed - former student uses AR-15 semi- automatic gun to kill students and staff
Flagged twice but FBI dropped the ball
Armed Guard did not enter the building

2. Guns in America: "Arming teachers?
Schools are a sanctuary – how would a teacher carrying a gun change the teacher-student relationship?
Gun use requires in-depth training and understanding of the law - could lead to more deaths

3. Guns in America: Small-Scale Proposed Solutions:
Raise Gun Age from 18 to 21
Ban Bump Stocks
Better Background Checks (universal? Gun show loophole ban?)
Better Data Base

4. National Rifle Association (NRA) and Gun Rights Supporters:
It is a slippery slope if you pass any anti-gun laws - the left/liberals just want to take away your guns

5. Nazi Propaganda

6. “Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service”
Scholars, such as professor of philosophy George Sabine, describe Hitler as a leader who “manipulates the people as an artist molds clay.”
“Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service”
^sends a message of improvement - does not suggest that the law mandates firing people, even if they are doing good work, just because they belong to a particular group
More Accurate Name: “Law for the Discrimination against Civil Service Workers Who Happen To Be Jews, Communists  or Other Individuals We Just Don’t Like” or the “Law for Firing Competent Doctors, Teachers, Judges, and City Employees Who Do Not Belong to the Nazi Party.

7. “Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service”
Scholars, such as professor of philosophy George Sabine, describe Hitler as a leader who “manipulates the people as an artist molds clay.”
“Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service”
^sends a message of improvement - does not suggest that the law mandates firing people, even if they are doing good work, just because they belong to a particular group
More Accurate Name: “Law for the Discrimination against Civil Service Workers Who Happen To Be Jews, Communists  or Other Individuals We Just Don’t Like” or the “Law for Firing Competent Doctors, Teachers, Judges, and City Employees Who Do Not Belong to the Nazi Party.

8. Propaganda Defined
1. The spreading of ideas for the purpose of helping or harming an institution, a cause, or a person
2. Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to pro- mote a political cause or point of view
3. A manipulation designed to lead you to a simplistic conclusion rather than a carefully considered one
4. The deliberate, systematic attempt to shape perceptions, manipulate cognitions [thoughts], and direct behavior to achieve a response that furthers the desired intent of the propagandist

9. Nazi Propaganda
Hitler and the Nazis - known for their extensive propaganda - words and images carefully chosen to give life to old anti-semitic prejudices, crush dissent, and turn neighbor against neighbor.
“[F]rom the child’s primer down to the last newspaper, every theater and every movie house, every advertising pillar and every billboard must be pressed into the service subjected of this one great mission....” - Hitler

10. Nazi Propaganda
Hitler established Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda
Appointed Josef Goebbels to direct this department
Goebbels strategy as Propaganda Minister: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”
Infused in every part of German society - film, radio, posters, and rallies to school textbooks 

11. Propaganda Techniques
Propaganda techniques used - euphemisms, name-calling, fear, and “bandwagon” (you are either for us or against us)
Euphemisms examples:
Replacing the word “work” with “service to Führer and folk” and “worker” with “soldier of labor.” Modern Day Example: Torture is “enhanced interrogation techniques”
Writer Max von der Grün recalls the impact these euphemisms had on him during his service in the German army: “It is easy to understand that if, for whatever reasons, these words are hammered into a person’s brain every day, they soon become a part of his language, and he does not necessarily stop and think about where they come from and why they were coined in the first place.”

12. From studying Nazi Germany we learn how individuals, especially young people, are vulnerable to believing myths and lies when they are not encouraged to critically analyze the world around them and make informed judgments based on evidence
Youth Rally
 The Nazi education system discouraged media literacy.
Students were not taught how to develop their own ideas about the images and messages that permeated life during the Third Reich because the success of Hitler’s dictatorship depended on the youth believing the lies disseminated by the Nazi Party.
Testimonies of German youth reveal that they mostly accepted what they heard and saw as the truth, without evaluating the accuracy of the statements or the harm these messages inflicted on vulnerable groups, especially Jews.