Eric Swalwell touts gun-control reform in North Liberty – The Daily Iowan: NORTH LIBERTY — U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., rounded out his first visit to Iowa since announcing his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president with a house party event in North Liberty, where he called for a ban and buy back policy for assault rifles.Well, he's a Californian, so we cannot fault him for being true to his Democratic principles of his culture and his party (Democratic).
Still, he's an American first, and one would hope that he is cognizant of the ...nuances .. of the Constitution of the United States.
As in: "Shall Not Be Infringed".
I'm not picking on this candidate in particular, except that he has recently made public his disdain for the Constitutional rights which we all enjoy ... so far.
You want to conduct a "buy back campaign" for "assault rifles"? (One wonders how he defines them.) Fine. As long as it's voluntary, rather than mandatory.
But we all know that he's just one more Democrat who thinks that if he has the power to enact laws which affect every citizen in America, he will do so with absolutely NO regard for the Constitution.
I'm disinclined to address his thoughts on non-constitutional rights such as "abortion" or "illegal immigrants" or "Water Rights in Parched Counties" (speaking off the top of my head); but when he openly espouses denying the rights of citizens to Constitutionally protected rights (aka: Second Amendment"), he self-identifies himself as someone who has no respect for his fellow citizens.
It seems redundant for me to encourage Californians to denounce him for his WRONG political philosophy; but those who are eligible to vote for a candidate in California might wonder what OTHER rights he is willing to throw under the political bus in furtherance of his candidacy.
A "Buy-Back" policy? That leaves it up to the individual firearms owner whether to yield his liberties to the state;
But a "BAN"? That moves into the area where citizens of The State (here .. the Nation) have no alternative other than to yield to political pressure and conduct themselves according to a dictator who would undermine your RIGHTS ... whether or not you value them.
First a gun ban; what's next? Would a Swalwell presidency require us to (for example) present National Identity Cards when crossing state lines?
Who knows? A President who feels comfortable with undermining one Constitutional right could conceivably segue to denying any other Constitutional right.
Just saying.
2 comments:
Well said, Mr. Geek.
Swalwell seems like a comic strip character.
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