NRA Raises Specter Of The Holocaust To Fearmonger About Confiscation Of Firearms
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 18th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
NRA Raises Specter Of The Holocaust To Fearmonger About Confiscation Of Firearms
A new video commentary released by the NRA references the Holocaust and other instances of persecution to advance the baseless claim that “the government is collecting more and more gun registration data which could be used against gun owners in the form of full confiscation.”
The July 18 commentary was published by NRA News and is part of the gun group’s recent efforts to reach a younger, more diverse audience. In the video NRA News commentator Chris Cheng sets up his claim about government-sanctioned gun confiscation by citing recent reports of the persecution of Jewish people in Eastern Ukraine, as well as “what happened to our Jewish friends during World War II”:
CHRIS CHENG: Masked men in Eastern Ukraine recently handed out fliers in front of a synagogue which told Jews to register with pro-Russian militants. I don’t even need to go into detail about world history and what happened to our Jewish friends during World War II. So here’s why government registration of a protected right is a bad thing.
