NRA's Wayne LaPierre Used Right-Wing Media's Nazi Comparison To Warn Of “Mass Executions Of Gun Owners”

Conservatives in media have been quick to draw comparisons between the Obama administration's reported proposals to crack down on gun violence and the actions of Adolf Hitler to suggest that President Obama will engage in firearm confiscation. These historically inaccurate comparisons owe part of their genesis to the National Rifle Association, which has compared proposals to regulate firearms to orders during the Holocaust.


LaPierre then suggested that the burning of guns could “help set the stage for mass executions of gun owners” just as Goebbels' order precipitated the mass killing of Jews.





The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has routinely condemned such comparisons. In November 2011, the ADL called a film that compared abortion in the United States to the murder of Jews in Nazi Germany “one of the most offensive and outrageous abuses of the memory of the Holocaust we have seen in years.” ADL National Director Abraham H. Foxman also stated:
