Rod Giltaca, President of Canada’s leading gun lobby the Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights (CCFR) compared a gun safety advocate to Nazi Joseph Geobells.

https://twitter.com/CivilAdvantage1/status/1116705986440392710

Giltaca deleted the tweet but a screenshot was preserved.

The tweet came in response to a gun activist posting a Washington Post article explaining how Canada’s gun lobby orchestrated a campaign to attack and discredit members of the Canadian Doctors for Protection from Guns, a grassroots organization of doctors working to strengthen Canada’s gun laws.

Giltaca’s comments were heavily criticized online, with users pointing out how his message diminished the 6 million Jews killed in the holaucust.

Invoking Nazi propagandist Goebbels whose words helped Hitler murder 6 million Jews is undignified, minimizes the horror of genocide and diminishes the lives of the few elderly Holocaust survivors still alive today. Re-think please.@CIJAinfo @antihateca @bnaibrithcanada #cdnpoli https://t.co/fm1uKLQuaj — BernieFarber (@BernieFarber) April 13, 2019

Giltaca runs the Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights which is Canada’s leading gun lobby group. They support American NRA-backed gun policies, including:

American-style “Stand your Ground laws” that have proven deadly for minority populations

Ground laws” that have proven deadly for minority populations The right to carry an open or concealed gun in public; and,

Making AR-15s easier to access in Canada

Conservatives aren’t shy about engaging with Rod Giltaca and the CCFR. They’ve appeared in videos, attended events and sponsored CCFR petitions:

Oh look, here's the President of the CCFR interviewing Andrew Scheer: https://t.co/1dSyWO4qtO ? pic.twitter.com/PtagNJhJCw — North99 (@wearenorth99) April 14, 2019

And here's Conservative MP Michelle Rempel sponsoring a CCFR petition: https://t.co/pfcMpmcyUm — North99 (@wearenorth99) April 14, 2019

Here's Rempel accepting lobbying gifts from the CCFR: https://t.co/PkyLEXmkxZ — North99 (@wearenorth99) April 14, 2019