GOP Congressman Warns Background Checks Will Lead To A Genocide Like In Rwanda

[question everything]

Source: Think Progress

Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) took the fearmongering over gun reform to new levels in a Facebook post on Thursday that compared expanding background checks to the Rwandan genocide.

Gun advocates and Republican lawmakers have pushed the idea that requiring background checks at gun shows and online would inevitably create a national gun registry that the government can use to confiscate guns before enacting a dictatorship. While the NRA’s favored comparison has been to Nazi Germany, Duncan invoked a more recent atrocity:

The 2nd Amendment is (or should be) equal to the 1st Amendment and the 4th Amendment and all of the others. 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.

Read about the Rwandan genocide, the Hutu and Tutsi tribes. 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.


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He should be exiled to Rwanda to find out, first hand, what it means to live between the clashing tribes

[SunSeeker]

1. Jeff Duncan is an idiot. nt

[Drale]

2. How will background checks lead to people hacking other people to death with machetes?

I hate to tell you bud, but if your afraid the government is going to know where you live, and if your a threat or not, they already know.

[gordianot]

3. Republican nut bags are lucky they would not be tolerated anywhere else, sounds like projection.

You hear this sort of thing so often some may actually believe their own words.

[Cosmocat]

18. That is the thing

20 years ago, a lot of these jackwagons knew they were spewing bullshit.

After two decades of relentlessly just pulling the most bombastic crap out of thin air and trying to outdo one another in saying crazy shit, they in fact DO believe what they are saying.

[Thinkingabout]

4. Those who are against background checks are the best friends Al-Qaeda has.

Terrorist are advertising for their people to buy guns in the USA because we do not have background checks and are easy to acquire. Keep on NRA, THEY ARE YOUR BUDDIES

[EC]

5. Wouldn't the tyrannical government

just go HOUSE TO HOUSE? They don't need any list.

[frylock]

12. oh, the gunfuckers will tell you that it's too monumental a task to undertake..

so instead, the govt will take a chance that gun owners who aren't on the registry, who incidentally, are likely to be the greatest threat to the govt, will be the only people left with guns. it's a ridiculous argument. when Obama's black panther death squads come for everyone's guns, it's going to be a door-to-door sweep, Fallujah style.

[CRK7376]

6. I was hoping

this fool was not one of the idiot NC congressional leaders and I got lucky! He was from SC. Unfortunately I live and work in SC during the week and go home to NC were I vote on the weekends...Can't escape the STUPIDS!!!!!

[Crow73]

7. JUST LIKE SPEED LIMITS!!!

[TRoN33]

8. Really?

Somebody need to his own head. Republicans' fearmongering attitude are exactly the reasons why they lost badly in 2012 elections and probably will again in 14' and 16' despite Obama's betrayal of the Liberals and Democrats.

[freshwest]

9. The only thing they have to sell is fear itself. (mangling quote, yes) n/t

[Berlin Expat]

10. All I can say is

<>

[gaspee]

11. Oh my

I don't even know where to start with this one...

[awoke_in_2003]

13. If he doesn't think...

the 1st and 4th and several others, thanks to the Patriotic Act (signed into law by a republican, renewed by a democrat who is a constitutional scholar ) aren't under attack, he is obtuse.

[Locut0s]

14. Nice to know this is the only thing between you and you slaughtering all your neighbours. nt

[defacto7]

15. Dunc Jong Jef

Let's take an important issue, inject an unrelated historical event into it blowing it to massive proportions as fodder for the stupid. How mature.

Actually I think background check will magically bring Stalin back to life, he will take over Russia, then he along with Attila the Hun will march on Washington.

[kenfrequed]

16. I am so tired of the reich wing.

Seriously, they just think it is ok to lie and fantasize and make up whatever the hell they want.

In some ways their endless conspiracy riddled nonsense and vile projection is a lot closer to the fascism they accuse others of.

[Posteritatis]

17. What (nt)

[olddots]

19. jeff has the brains of a petrified booger

How does the vacation industry survive in South Carolina with sub species bacteria like him mouthing this shit ?

[moondust]

20. I was sure it was gonna be Louie.

Hey Louie, wake up!! Ur gonna lose your title!!

[cvoogt]

21. Well, it is RW-anda, after all ;)

All kidding aside, I wonder if he also thinks driver's licenses are a way for progressives to prepare for genocide.

[sellitman]

22. This guy is reason enough to never outlaw abortion

I imagine the world would be a better place with this putrid GOP turd.

[Mkap]

23. right....

So let's keep our guns cause AR15's and Glocks are really going to stop an M1 tank, predator drone, or an MRAB...right?

LOL

Jeff Duncan....idiot...if the government wants you dead they don't need a "gun registry" they can bomb your house from 40 miles away!

[question everything]

24. What is scary is to think that he is not alone

that there are other dim witted like him.

How does he even know about Rwanda? Can he find it on the map?