‘Joe the Plumber’ links Holocaust with gun control

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TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio congressional candidate known as “Joe the Plumber” is running a campaign video in which he suggests that Nazi gun controls contributed to deaths during the Holocaust because Jews didn’t have firearms to defend themselves.

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