Dem Rep Calls for Gun Confiscation, Reveals Disturbing 'Suggestion' for Those That Refuse
I don’t have very many memories of the 1980s and most of them seem to involve Nintendo games (I still feel an unusual partisanship for “Top Secret Episode,” which never gets the nostalgia love that it ought to). However, one thing I seem to remember is that liberals didn’t like nuclear anything. As in, really didn’t like it.
Nuclear power plants? No. Nuclear-powered submarines? No. Nuclear weapons? No in italics.
That whole “The Day After” vibe seems to have waned a bit after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, but it’s not like they started liking our friend the atomic isotope. Whenever anyone brings up the idea that the most pragmatic form of power not formed from the bones of dinosaurs might in fact be nuclear reactors, watch how quickly that gets shot down in green circles.
So, how do you get liberals to embrace nukes? Well, set up a situation in which they could be used against gun owners, of course.
This very bizarre hypothetical comes from the Twitter desk of California Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell, who’s been busy proposing a $15 billion gun “buyback” which sounds a bit more ominous than that word might otherwise entail.
In a May Op-Ed for USA Today, Swalwell said that “we should ban possession of military-style semiautomatic assault weapons, we should buy back such weapons from all who choose to abide by the law, and we should criminally prosecute any who choose to defy it by keeping their weapons.”
Stuff like this tends to get recirculated on social media, and recirculate the May Op-Ed did, thanks to Joe Cardillo of Newsmax:
Make no mistake, Democrats want to eradicate the Second Amendment, ban and seize all guns, and have all power rest with the state.
These people are dangerously obsessed with power. https://t.co/f1AS6Me0ko
— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) November 16, 2018
Joe Biggs, formerly of Infowars, responded to Cardillo’s tweet with some choice language (translation: reader discretion advised):
So basically @RepSwalwell wants a war. Because that’s what you would get. You’re outta your fucking mind if you think I’ll give up my rights and give the gov all the power. https://t.co/bK1GVyjFej
— Joe Biggs (@Rambobiggs) November 16, 2018
Now, the liberal line is that the people of Infowars are too unhinged to be on social media. I want you to remember that and then remember that the response you’re about to see is from an elected official in the 115th Congress:
And it would be a short war my friend. The government has nukes. Too many of them. But they’re legit. I’m sure if we talked we could find common ground to protect our families and communities.
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) November 16, 2018
“I’m sure if we talked” about not nuking you “we could find common ground to protect our families and communities.” Kyle Kashuv might have had the best response to this gambit:
AR-15s are so dangerous that we must nuke gun owners to confiscate them
— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) November 16, 2018
Swalwell, for his part, pointed out that his remark about nuking people was all like, just kidding y’all.
America’s gun debate in one thread.
1) I propose a buy-back of assault weapons
2) Gun owner says he’ll go to war with USA if that happens
3) I sarcastically point out USA isn’t losing to his assault weapon (it’s not the 18th Century)
4) I’m called a tyrant
5) 0 progress
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) November 16, 2018
First, I’m genuinely surprised he’s genuinely surprised there’s “0 progress.” “I made a joke about nuking people whose constitutional rights I’ve proposed taking away — what’s the big deal here, people? Is there no communication left in this country?”
Second, yes, I think that we all get that you were just making a funny. I think we can also agree that “I was just making a funny” isn’t a defense for everything. Just ask the president — and he’s never proposed killing millions of people or rendering plots of his own country uninhabitable for eons.
You don’t get to make a joke about nuking people on Twitter when you’re a sitting congressman — particularly when you’re very seriously talking about gun confiscation. That’s just how it works. I think I have a pretty good sense of humor, but I don’t find “obey us or face nuclear winter” all that jocund coming from anyone, much less a legislator.
At least we now know what we can to do to get Democrats to embrace nukes, though: Convince them the Russians’ gun control laws aren’t strict enough.
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