against a group that had plenty of weapons.

At one tense moment, a truckload of armed brownshirts drove up to the hotel where Röhm was being arrested. According to Hitler’s chauffeur, Hitler himself walked up to the unit’s leader and told him to "drive back to Munich immediately!' The man complied.

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Simmons said that Hitler "took all the weapons" and had a registry of everyone and then, on the night of June 30, 1934, murdered his political opponents. This oversimplifies and mangles the historic facts.

While Hitler did take weapons away from Jews, Communists and Social Democrats, he also armed private citizens to better terrorize those same political opponents. To reduce Nazi gun policy to confiscation of weapons is to miss at least half the story.

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"The Swings" give this year's Green Box Art Festival a lift

The installation "The Swings" is part of the 2014 Green Box Art Festival in Green Mountain Falls, north of Pikes Peak. The project from a Canadian design firm features 10 musical swings that trigger a different note when in motion. Above right, Josh Bailey of Ohio and Quin Gardner of Colorado Spring, both 17, enjoy the ride. (Cyrus McCrimmon, The Denver Post)

Back when the world was low-tech, even pre-tech, swings were mankind's idea of a good time. Liberating, tummy-tickling and just a little dangerous, swings could be operated by anybody and everyone, especially kids.

"The Swings," an art installation spending the first two weeks of July in tiny Green Mountain Falls, brings back those simple thrills with an adult