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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If I were a hopeful person I’d hope that there are at least SOME anti gun law people who would call this completely ridiculous. I mean all is fair in love and war but stupidity doesn’t seem to be a tool of success.