Houston – A Texas state representative opposed to gun control posted a meme on her Facebook page suggesting that gun control led to the deaths of children in the Holocaust.
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Valoree Swanson, who describes herself as a Conservative Republican on her personal Facebook page, deleted the image from her Valoree Swanson for Texas Facebook page, and the entire page appeared to have been removed as of Wednesday.
The image, which Swanson shared Monday from the Ted Cruz Meme page on Facebook in support of the Texas Republican senator, juxtaposes the image of 7,000 pairs of shoes left outside the U.S. Capitol earlier this month to represent the children killed by guns since the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School with an image of piles of shoes of Holocaust victims. The captions read “Shoes left by gun control supporters, 2018,” and “Shoes left by gun control supporters, 1945.”
Facebook deleted the original image on Tuesday, according to the Dallas News, but screenshots have continued to circulate.
Swanson, who was first sworn into the Texas House to represent the Houston-area District 150 in 2017, is a member of the ultraconservative Freedom Caucus in the Texas Legislature. She is up for re-election in November.
She reportedly has not commented on the incident.
“Rep. Swanson’s repost of this meme is abhorrent and is an affront to the memories of the 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazis,” Marc Stanley of the Jewish Democratic Council of America said in a statement.
Considering there were entire actual countries with full scale military forces demolished by the German advance, I have to say I’m amazed that anyone thinks a couple of personally owned firearms would have made a major difference.
Another alt-Trumpf umglict psssing off ignorance as knowledge of our suffering, to make a fascist pro-gun point. Comments like hers are reflections of core Jew hatred, and the focus on how so many did not defend themselves. Thank G-d for Israel and the IDF which defends Israelis with muscle, while so many sit and kvetch and refuse to serve.
Im all for the second anmendment and don think anyone can strip anyone of owning a gun legally but why the children? Why not adults? Why imply this thought at all. Original yet crazy thinking by a dillusional person.
She’s 100% correct ONE of the reasons Why the nazi were successful because there was strict gun control in Europe at the time and that’s exactly why the 2nd amendment is there to protect against a tyranny government if you know anything about the Warsaw ghetto uprising you’ll know the success the uprising had!!
Warsaw Ghetto thousand of guns, riffles etc many were children less than 1% survived. Budapest Ghetto NO GUNS app. 40% survived. Thousands of yiden survived because they had no guns.
Most Republicans are Neo-Nazis, so I am not surprised at this.
Yiden are a very small minority in every country in the Goles (Outside of Israel)
When the population owns guns it will be always used against the minorities like Yiden.
Spain, Poland, Russia etc 1000 years of history.
Jews are the people of the Books not guns. We are attending Yeshivot, Universitys etc not Gun Shows. Anyone who questions this just drive to the next Yeshivah, College and GUN SHOW. Only an anti semite will suggest otherwise. The real reason of this Neo-Nazis to own guns is to kill Yiden and other minorities even without the help of the Govt. Polish, Ruskies, Hungarians, Slovaks did this before and during Hitler jm”s. In the USA before the 1950’s was not much better. NO JEWS, Blacks Dogs etc. Just please watch some old NEWS. Blacks and some Jews were murdered for no reason all the time. There is a reason why all the Nazis want this MAGA. To them it means the good old times, please watch some news from the early 60s
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