Democratic Rep. Swalwell warns gun owners that 'government has nukes'
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Rep. Eric Swalwell , California Democrat, warned gun owners Friday that any fight over firearms would be “a short one,” because the federal government has an extensive cache of nuclear weapons.
After Joe Biggs tweeted that Mr. Swalwell “wants a war” over the Second Amendment, Mr. Swalwell responded, “And it would be a short war my friend.”
“The government has nukes.Too many of them. But they’re legit,” the congressman tweeted. “I’m sure if we talked we could find common ground to protect our families and communities.”
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Another good reason for gun ownership. A Representative who wants to nuke America?
A Representative who wants to nuke America?
Oh, is that what he said? Jesus Christ you guys are desperate. He was making a point that an armed insurrection by redneck antigovernment types would not end well for them, regardless of their belief that they need enormous gun collections to protect themselves from the tywanical gub’mint.
I just nuked some fish for lunch...
Omg - you literally want to nuke fish. Wow! What about the environment? What about the people who will be impacted? Mass hysteria!!
Another whack job elected to congress. He and Occasio-Cortez should get together. She's not sure how to pay rent and she's from New York City.......more Bernie-like scum that make their living off the backs of us, while putting together legislation to further screw us.
if one looks close enough... those whack jobs are not too hard to spot.
the "eyes" have it.
Meh, he isn't wrong. The govt wouldn't need to use its nukes though in some war between it and people overcompensating, the govt has plenty of other weapons that will easily do the job.
they will not have enough people to operate these weapons.
the military will not fire on "we the people" - we will fire on those who give that illegal order instead.
All the more reason to arm the populace. We have at least one official who apparently thinks dropping a nuclear bomb on United States citizens is something that should or would be considered. He really ought to resign for that.
And it's not just the nuke thing. He's saying that citizens should give up the idea of taking action against a government that exceeds its authority and rejects justice. It's one thing to ask me to trust politicians. It's quite another to expect me to put away a critical tool for responding to the violation of that trust.
Well . . . they might be able to repel the danger, except Eric Swalwell (man of the people!) wants to disarm the people. And if they don't turn in their guns, they can expect to be nuked.
Lol, give me a fuckin break. Trump, end of story when it comes to resignation.
When it comes to your "tool", you are using a rubber mallet when they have a jackhammer.
Not a chance.
Probably not nuked.
You'll get nothing and like it. And come back for more. You won't hear anyone in the media (outside of maybe Fox) have any criticism at all of his comments, but you know damned well if Trump had said this, they'd all be lighting their hair on fire.
Then either they shouldn't have jackhammers or I should.
I don't care how well armed they are. A couple hundred million united American citizens are a force to be reckoned with.
Trump is small potatoes. Whatever else you want to say about him, he is clearly willing to work within the system. The Supreme Court might be frightening, but at least he is nominating actual judges to it. When a court orders him to do or not do something, he obeys, appeals, or tries something different. He hasn't started dismantling our checks and balances or enforced his personal will with the military. That's the kind of situation I'm thinking of.
"Probably" is not the response. The correct answer from an elected official is "never to be nuked - only a madman would even suggest it."
But do they? Who do you think is going to take away the guns if people don't want to give them up? If most of the people who own them tell the government to piss off, who do you think is going to take them away?
IMO: Banning guns would be about as successful as the alcohol prohibition was or banning marijuana. We seem to have plenty of both of these things in America still. But some people like to worry I guess.
Okay, I was sure this had to be a piece from The Onion but saw no satire tag.
Wow!
The nukes comments were sarcasm, s a r c a s m.
Not really. Sure, he didn't mean literal nukes. That was hyperbole but it wasn't actually sarcasm. He was actually being quite literal in threatening the use of force in imposing his personal will upon others concerning the 2nd amendment.
Here is a short sight of folks, including this politician, with this mindset. This is especially dangerous when coming from politicians.
Depending on the scenario and/or cause to be either supported or suppressed, situations like Iraq II and Afghanistan are either held up like banners or quickly dismissed.
For example, we sent Iraq back to the stone age with 2 e-bombs, frying their grid. Afghanistan, pretty much didn't even need that.
Yet, by golly, those stone age sheep and goat herders, certainly didn't roll over and give up.
Those Pakistani backyard gunsmiths cranking out copies of weapons did help us much either.
To dismiss the possibility of such "resistance" happening here, is probably foolish.
DIDN'T
The Mujahedin's held off the full weight of the Soviet military machine for ten years before we gave them any real assistance. They think that won't happen here....
The vietcong held off the full might of the US military and it's modern equipment for 30 years.....
I can sit here and say that the easiest weapon to duplicate in a backyard shop is a submachine gun. I mean for those in the know, it is the simplest bullet firing mechamism to replicate. And can easily be replicated without any machine tools at all.
Hammer saw and file..... When you add people with my technical level of knowledge of weapons? close range firepower is key, long range, although handy, isn't.
Watch the ridicule and where it comes from, those are the people we would be fighting against, the clueless...
will he next want to ban machine shops, and even home ownership of simple lathes and milling machines?
True, you are not going to easily get a McMillan barrel, but these folks can make an assortment of semi-auto pistols and switch select able gas operated rifles.
Like any AK47, not good for long range accuracy, but I sure as heck wouldn't want to stand in front of one.
LOL.
Well, to be honest, in this scenario, when it comes to high powered reaching out and touch your target, I am more of a single shot hot rod round kind a guy.
But if I have to use one of those gas operated pea shooters, I am a 7.62 long kind a guy. The services of a good gunsmith would be required to get it to my standards.
Get yourself a Springfield M1A and never look back....
Wouldn't mind one of those at all, if I have to use that type of weapon.
It would still get my standard once over for such a scenario by an outfit like McMillan.
In a scenario like we are talking one of the things I need is a ballistic coefficient in a certain range and you just can't get them in the .22 cal bore.
for some reason the left is blind to the following words....
"being necessary to the security of a free State,"
tyrants love unarmed peasants, they are easy to order around
Clutching pearls? Yeah right! The acid test here would be to consider if Trump said the same sort of thing. The left would have went absolutely ape-shit. Zero doubt of that.
The hypocrisy coming from many on the left continues it’s exponential path through infinity and beyond ....
anyone who thinks our military would fire on us, because a politician said, is in for a very rude awakening.
The military to them is a push button robot, subservient to the government who gives the orders....
Not only will they lose a goodly portion of the troops joining the other side, some of them will take their advanced weaponry with them when they leave to join the resistance in defending this country.......
How do I know that? it's what happened during the start of the Civil War....... Not all the troops support T-rump, but a whole lot of them do.....
And most of them can distinguish between a lawful order and an unlawful one......
"most people in the military are the very rightwingnuts they hate so much
im not going to be concerned until west point starts teaching alinsky, cloward and piven
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meh, I won't be surrendering my guns until I'm sure that every tea party POS and teavangelical is taking a dirt nap