“Joe the Dumber=?UTF-8?B?4oCd?=?: Candidate says gun control to blame for Armenian Genocide

A candidate for the Ohio Congress has called gun control a cause of the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust.

Samuel "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher, running in the ninth district, has released a campaign video that says:

"In 1911 Turkey established gun control; from 1915 to 1917 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were exterminated. In 1939 Germany established gun control; from 1939 to 1945 6 million Jews, 7 million others, unable to defend themselves, were exterminated."

The video has outraged American Jews, who say Wurzelbacher is turning their national horror into campaign rhetoric.

In a uniquely American reaction to random fame, Wurzelbacher became a celebrity in 2008, when he was singled out in a John McCain campaign speech as representing "blue collar" America. He has since turned talk-show popularity into a bid for becoming a lawmaker.  Read more... (164 words)

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