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Botany

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Fri Apr 12, 2013, 09:43 AM Apr 2013

GOP Congressman Compares Gun Registration To Rwandan Genocide

Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) on Thursday took to Facebook to rail against stricter gun control measures -- and, along the way, compared a national gun registry to the genocide in Rwanda.

"The 2nd Amendment is (or should be) equal to the 1st Amendment and the 4th Amendment and all of the others," Duncan wrote on Facebook. "Ask yourselves why it is under attack? Ask yourselves about a National gun registry database and how that might be used and why it is so wanted by progressives."

Enter the Rwanda comparison. "Read about the Rwandan genocide, the Hutu and Tutsi tribes," Duncan continued. "Read that all Tutsi tribe members were required to register their address with the Hutu government and that this database was used to locate Tutsi for slaughter at the hands of the Hutu. (Since the government had the names and addresses of nearly all Tutsis living in Rwanda (remember, each Rwandan had an identity card that labeled them Tutsi, Hutu, or Twa) the killers could go door to door, slaughtering the Tutsis."

Duncan wrote that he used this particular example "to warn that national databases can be used with evil consequences."

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/gop-congressman-compares-gun-registration-to-rwandan-genocide



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GOP Congressman Compares Gun Registration To Rwandan Genocide (Original Post) Botany Apr 2013 OP
Have they no shame? There are restrictions on the 1st. Amendment. sinkingfeeling Apr 2013 #1

sinkingfeeling

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1. Have they no shame? There are restrictions on the 1st. Amendment.
Fri Apr 12, 2013, 09:50 AM
Apr 2013

You can't call in a bomb threat and say you were just expressing your 1st. Amendment rights. It's a felony!

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