A REPUBLICAN congressman has suggested Jewish people killed in the Holocaust could have saved themselves if they had been armed.
Don Young made the remarks as he attempted to argue against stricter gun control laws in the US, which he implied would make Americans less safe.
“How many millions of people were shot and killed because they were unarmed? Fifty million in Russia,” he told a conference in Juneau, Alaska.
Mr Young, who is also a board member on the National Rifle Association (NRA), added: “How many Jews were put in the ovens because they were unarmed?”
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