'Joe the Plummer' under fire after tying the Holocaust to gun control The video shows Wurzelbacher loading up a shotgun and pulverising fruits and vegetables while a voice over intones: "In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were exterminated. In 1939 Germany established gun control. From 1939 to 1945 six million Jews and seven million others, unable to defend themselves, were exterminated," the voice continues. The video is just the latest in a rising number of offensive incidents in which the Holocaust is invoked for political gain, said Deborah Lauter, director of civil rights at Anti-Defamation League, a prominent Jewish group. "These kinds of references and analogies do not have any place in civil discourse," Ms Lauter told AFP. While reasonable people can disagree about gun control policies, invoking the Holocaust as a political tool and suggesting that the Nazi regime's systematic and brutal murder of six million Jews and millions of others was the result of gun control is deeply offensive. Wurzelbacher struck back at his detractors in a series of Twitter posts lambasting the "media spin." "No one in the video said gun control CAUSED genocide," he wrote, adding in a later post: "Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf that his agenda would not be possible unless the people were disarmed."