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The Gun Control Question That Stopped Eric Swalwell In His Tracks
Townhall.com ^ | November 19, 2018 | Scott Morefield

Posted on 11/19/2018 6:03:52 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: V_TWIN

Rising Star?

More like rising swamp gas.

IMHO


41 posted on 11/19/2018 9:30:15 AM PST by ripley
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To: precisionshootist

“Why are we continuing to debate these people about a type of firearm? The federal government does not have the right to regulate firearms at all. The police and federal agents have machine guns. Why dont the people have machine guns? The purpose of the second amendment is to protect the people from the tyranny of government. How are the people protected when government agents have weopons that are banned from the people?”


More to the point, if one takes a couple of steps back and looks at what the Constitution IS, it is obviously the document creating the present form of government. It is “We the People...” giving up some of our right to rule ourselves to this then-new government, for the purpose of ensuring various common interests.

OK, so the point is: How can the government possess powers that We the People did not first possess ourselves? How is it that a SPECIFIC prohibition against infringing upon certain rights can be read as anything BUT a prohibition on a whole class of laws, even if passed unanimously?


42 posted on 11/19/2018 9:31:15 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Kaslin

I can shoot 1 MOL (Minute-of-Limo) at 1000 yards with my scoped AR-10, and put multiple rounds on target. It’s not for “sale” to the government at any price.


43 posted on 11/19/2018 9:49:59 AM PST by 10mm
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To: Ancesthntr

I’m sure you’re right. I mentioned machine guns because that was my only exposure. In my former auction business a client had a machine gun, still in the crate, packed in cosmolene in his basement. We called the Feds, turned it over, and that was it.


44 posted on 11/19/2018 10:35:39 AM PST by Tucker39 ("It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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To: old curmudgeon

Actually Swalwell doesn’t strike me as smooth and agreeable. I see him as arrogant and surly; in a class with someone like Avenatti, the Creepy Porn Lawyer. Ironic that Cong. Schiff is one of Swalwell’s BFFs. Both creeps, in MY estimation.


45 posted on 11/19/2018 10:40:35 AM PST by Tucker39 ("It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; azishot; ...

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46 posted on 11/19/2018 10:45:35 AM PST by bitt ("Let justice be done though the heavens fall".)
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To: precisionshootist

“Why are we continuing to debate these people about a type of firearm? The federal government does not have the right to regulate firearms at all. The police and federal agents have machine guns. Why dont the people have machine guns? The purpose of the second amendment is to protect the people from the tyranny of government. How are the people protected when government agents have weopons that are banned from the people?”

Game, set, match. No one has a moral right to interfere with our right not to be killed. Period.


47 posted on 11/19/2018 11:18:27 AM PST by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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To: V_TWIN

He has a fool’s face.

Have Americans lost the ability to make such a distinction?


48 posted on 11/19/2018 11:19:25 AM PST by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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To: Mom MD
I know 20 or 30 people that have semi-auto rifles with wooden stocks...that have never killed a human.

Me...I prefer bolt action...or lever action...but that's just me.

None of my guns have snuck out of the house either...............

49 posted on 11/19/2018 11:29:24 AM PST by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: Kaslin

If the Government is allowed to take one gun, the Government will take all guns, period, before they stop.

The question[s] that beg to be answered are: 1. Will the Government attempt to seize (take) the guns the Citizens possess from them? The answer to that is, yes, they will. The only question needing to be answered is when will they begin.

2. Will they succeed? The jury is still out on the answer to this one. The Citizens hold the answer to this one. Because it cannot be definitely answered until after it is tried.

The bottom line is The American Citizen[s] hold this answer in their hands. Will we revert to being the men and women we once were[masculine men and feminine women], or will will we continue to becoming the soy cocktail drinkers, the girly men and she males[ feminine males and masculine females]?


50 posted on 11/19/2018 11:50:05 AM PST by sport
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To: bitt; bagster; ransomnote
***The Gun Control Question That Stopped Eric Swalwell In His Tracks***

What stopped Eric Swalwell in his tracks was telling him to start out on his right foot. The man is a certifiable imbecile!

He fits in with other Dems who think that American astronauts landed on Mars, that adding more military to Guam will cause the island to tip over, to 'impeach 45', that an assault weapon is a 22 cal rifle with a pistol grip or that a semi-automatic weapon is a machine gun, that there is no worry about Chinese missiles because there is a 15 hour time difference between us, that Americans can have everything they want - just let the govt print more money, that Repubs are the party of slavery... I could go on and on! 😠

These imbeciles rule our country!

51 posted on 11/19/2018 1:16:57 PM PST by Bob Ireland (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise)
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To: ealgeone

The man who wants to disarm you either fears you will discover his malfeasance, or has plans for your future that would cause you to “take up arms.” Either way, it cannot be allowed.


52 posted on 11/19/2018 4:19:29 PM PST by ez ("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton)
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To: Kaslin

Swalwell looks like Keir Dullea in a lunatic role.


53 posted on 11/19/2018 4:28:05 PM PST by Stentor
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To: Kaslin

To reduce semi-auto pistol deaths I’d have universal background checks and mandatory reporting on mental health.”>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

The sophomoric son of bitch?

No one CAn report about anyome’s mental health because of federal CAPA patient privacy legislation , formerly passed by the Democrat Left to prevent any third party discovery as to whether a person has HIV-AIDS. Privacy laws will never allow for any gun control related reporting on any persons mental health, unless the CAPA privacy laws are revoked, and the LEFT will never allow that.

The LEFT such as this Swalwell prig are blowing sphincter smoke at everyone and we let them?

Eff Salwall and the spavined horse he rode in on.


54 posted on 11/20/2018 2:25:18 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Yes, but the tactical ones look much more scarier.LOL


55 posted on 11/20/2018 5:38:55 AM PST by headstamp 2
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To: who knows what evil?
Democrats’ final solution for gun owners...NUKE ‘EM!

Nuke Em from orbit! It’s the only way to be sure.

56 posted on 11/21/2018 2:20:26 AM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Kaslin
...a fresh-faced rising star in the Democratic party...

Eric Swalwell is a second term Representative who was previously the mayor of Dublin, CA. He only got to DC because redistricting and California's "top two" election system put him against the senile Fortney "Pete" Stark after Stark's district moved from Fremont/Union City north to the Tri-Valley.

He seems to have developed delusions of grandeur.

-PJ

57 posted on 11/21/2018 2:36:55 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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