"::The exact quote is, ""Their treatment of Jewish persons was, in this sense, orthogonal to their gun-control views."" Orthogonal, according to Wiktionary, means ""independent of or irrelevant to"". I paraphrased that as ""unconnected to"", but I'm not wedded to that. Having said that, what Harcourt acknowledges, on page 676, is that the Nazis ""used the gun laws and regulations to further the genocide."" He then goes on, on the following page, to say that ""It is absurd to even try to characterize this as either pro- or anti-gun control"" (italics added). In other words, their use of the gun laws in this one instance is not their gun control policy. I am open to suggestions as to how we express this subtlety.    

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