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Rep Swalwell:We should ban assault weapons by buying them back or restricting them to ranges/clubs.
Rep Eric Swalwell twitter ^ | November 16, 2018

Posted on 11/16/2018 2:47:50 PM PST by SMGFan

She’s not lying. We should ban assault weapons by buying them back or restricting them to ranges/clubs. #EnoughIsEnough


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; banglist; swalwell
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

The little bottom feeder doesn’t have the power to launch anything.But he does have the heart of a mass murderer.


21 posted on 11/16/2018 3:16:34 PM PST by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: SMGFan
The Perp.


22 posted on 11/16/2018 3:19:45 PM PST by TADSLOS (Six out of seven dwarfs arenÂ’t happy.)
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To: SMGFan

Trump and the Senate will kill bills like that.
The Rats KNOW that if the succeed on passing more idiot gun laws with GOP asdistance, the GOP loses a lot of its base.


23 posted on 11/16/2018 3:22:18 PM PST by ZULU (Jeff Sessions should be tried for sedition.)
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To: Vaquero

24 posted on 11/16/2018 3:26:13 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZGw2M)
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To: oldasrocks
"I demand mental health checks on all politicians."<-----This
25 posted on 11/16/2018 3:28:24 PM PST by moehoward
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

All mine will be HEAD
Hot
Empty
And
Dirty


26 posted on 11/16/2018 3:34:09 PM PST by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: SMGFan

Wants you to trade your guns for a fifty dollar gift card to Walmart.


27 posted on 11/16/2018 3:37:35 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: TADSLOS

Smiling fascist. Ugh.


28 posted on 11/16/2018 3:38:56 PM PST by 50mm
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To: SMGFan

Swalwell should go first and be barred from having armed guards.


29 posted on 11/16/2018 3:39:21 PM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: fireman15

“That comes to $3.75 a gun.”

That neatly states what the Democrats think of our rights.


30 posted on 11/16/2018 3:41:09 PM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If someone wants to take your guns from you, it’s because they want to do something to you that you won’t let them do if you still have your guns.

- Wayne Allen Root?


31 posted on 11/16/2018 3:42:48 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: SMGFan

Mine is not for sale.


32 posted on 11/16/2018 3:42:49 PM PST by Not A Snowbird (I'm really starting to believe in term limits.)
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To: real saxophonist
How does one ‘buy back’ something one never owned to begin with?

Even better, he wants to buy them back using your tax dollars. That means that you pay twice for a weapon you no longer possess.

33 posted on 11/16/2018 3:46:03 PM PST by NutsOnYew
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To: Vaquero

The Gonzalez Flag,,

One of My Favorites!


34 posted on 11/16/2018 3:47:05 PM PST by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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To: SMGFan

It takes WAAAAYYYYYYYYY longer than it used to for teens to GROW UP, so I say raise the age required to buy any firearm to 21.


35 posted on 11/16/2018 3:50:43 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: TADSLOS

This will be a banner day for this little fascist, I predict.

A day he’d prefer to forget what happened.

The day when he let the mask slip.


36 posted on 11/16/2018 3:54:01 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SMGFan

“Assault weapons” is a totally meaningless term. I’ve seen on twitter where at least one dim bulb classified a black-powder Hawkins single shot as such because of the size of its projectile! at 50 cal. Yet another wanted my semi-auto Ruger Break-down 10/22 banned because it fired so many and could be carried in a suitcase.

The real problem is this, we have a society where very deadly weapons capable of mass deaths are readily available. This is what the LEFT is totally focused on, to take away a Constitutional right from law-abiding citizens in the hope that EVENTUALLY this will reduce the deaths. The unpalatable answer to the LEFT is that weapons are easy and even where guns and knives are strongly restricted, these crimes STILL HAPPEN! Add to that the historical fact that guns have been common in America for CENTURIES!

In my Dad’s middle school as well as high school there was a ‘Rod & Gun’ Club. Kids brought their 22s and learned how to use them safely! In high school it was deer rifles that were admired. What changed from then to now where a kid brings a deadly weapon to school to use at school?

MORALITY and a moral popular culture, that is what has changed!

I watched just a day back a Youtube video series of best action movie scenes. All from LEFTist Hollywood, all probably starring vocal gun haters but ALL OF THEM, ALL had guns and death counts you cannot believe. Hollywood replies that they only do it because it sells tickets. Yet, stats tell Hollywood that family movies can consistently sell tickets, IF THEY WOULD MAKE THEM!

I could go on, but the LEFT is completely myopic on this subject. They are willing to take our guns when we are innocent of any wrong-doing. Yet they are equally blind to their culpability to removing public morality.

Sigh, soapbox off!


37 posted on 11/16/2018 3:58:57 PM PST by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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To: SMGFan

Let’s game this out Rep Swallwell.

In Civil Wars things are anything but civil. I have read the Twitter thread and contained therein is a notion that we gun owners would be battling the government. Moreover, the last civil war is cited as proof of thre futility of fighting the government.

That is an oversimplification and misses how tragic a war would be and how utterly barbaric it would be. Some points to consider:

Unlike the last civil war this one isn’t about one side wishing to continue the institution of slavery. As a matter of fact this one would be more akin to fighting the revolution which started with the British attempting to secure the colonists arms.

The notion that all gun owners are a monolithic political entity is false. Gun owners are also democrats.

The notion that the government, particularly the military would function as a monolith if it came to a shooting war is wrong. Make no mistake the military would be needed if wide spread unrest broke out. The FBI and othet para military entities could not handle a wide spread rising. The military would be called.

And therein is where a point of history may have been missed by Mr. Sawell. During the last civil war many confederate soldiers and officers had served in the Union Army. To think a schism in our military would not result this time is a foolish notion. Some may sit it out by refusing to violently suppress their fellow citizens, some of whom will be vets.

Speaking of nukes, if this does get as nasty and out of hand as I think it will, with a schism in our military, does anyone think that only one side would control and have possession of our nuclear arsenal or the necessary materials.

Final food for Mr. Salwell, if both sides have nukes who is more vulnerable? Could it be the side whose vast number of drone like supporters are concentrated in large cities? Hmmmm. A city like DC?


38 posted on 11/16/2018 4:02:50 PM PST by FlipWilson
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To: DuncanWaring

Good observation,
I don’t know if Wayne said it.


39 posted on 11/16/2018 4:22:05 PM PST by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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To: Campion

bttt!


40 posted on 11/16/2018 4:34:08 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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