Joe the Plumber says gun control caused the Holocaust

6/20/2012

Sam "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher hates gun control, and in a new campaign ad as part of his Ohio Congressional bid says that the real cause of the Holocaust was Germany's restrictions on firearms enacted in 1939. Wurzelbacher proudly opines in front of a backyard shooting range that "In 1939, Germany established gun control. From 1939 to 1945, six million Jews ... unable to defend themselves were exterminated." Scouring the video's YouTube page for a positive reaction to the ad is like trying to find a bullet in a haystack, but at least one commenter was nice enough to apologize to all Americans on behalf of the Ohio population. It's OK, we won't hold one guy against you. But tell Sam the law was passed in 1938, not 1939.

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