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Michigan GOP tweets offensive Second Amendment Holocaust myth, revs up Republican disarray [1]

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Date: 2023-03-22  

Kristin Karamo, newly elected chairperson of the Michigan Republican Party

Michigan legislators have promised and begun moving through a set of gun safety measures that would expand background checks, strengthen gun storage requirements, and possibly add new red flag laws. A month after three Michigan State University students were killed on campus in a shooter rampage that left at least five others critically wounded, Democratic representatives have so far been successful in moving the legislation forward in the face of the right-wing Second Amendment rage that we all now expect in the wake of each mass murder.

On Wednesday, whoever runs the official Michigan GOP Twitter account decided that the best way to defend against this attempt to make Michigan a safer place was to equate gun safety legislation with the Holocaust. Yeah, the Holocaust during World War II, as enacted by Nazis. The Holocaust. That Holocaust.

Because the country's right wing is both intellectually and rhetorically lazy, they decided to use a meme to make their already tasteless and historically inaccurate point. The image shows a black-and-white photo of hundreds—perhaps thousands—of rings, presumably collected from Jewish victims of the Holocaust. The writing on the meme reads, “Before they collected all these wedding rings … they collected all the guns.”

The Tweet was accompanied by these deep thoughts:

#History has shown us that the first thing a government does when it wants total control over its people is to disarm them. President Reagan once stated, “if we lose #freedom here, there is nowhere else to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth.” #2A #GOP

As you can imagine, this has gone down about as well as any other thing fascists have said about the Holocaust. In this case, however, even other Republicans are calling out the Michigan GOP for bad taste. Imagine that.

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