United States – -(AmmoLand.com)- Eric Swalwell has long been one of the more extreme anti-Second Amendment extremists currently in the United States Congress. He’s also been prone to making a lot of outlandish claims and for supporting a number of crazy items of legislation. He’s now in the news for suing President Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Representative Mo Brooks (R-AL) and other Trump allies over the January 6 protests that turned violent.
Second Amendment supporters will remember that Swalwell not only introduced legislation for an Australia-style “buyback” of modern multi-purpose semiautomatic firearms. His agenda, though, went far beyond a ban. He’s one of the more combative anti-Second Amendment extremists, going so far as to make unfounded smears against the National Rifle Association and to suggest nuking those who refused to abide by his gun ban proposal.
Swalwell, of course, had an ill-fated run for president that ended very quickly. However, his proposal to mimic Australia picked up a new advocate in Beto O’Rourke, and while it is not likely to pass, it makes extreme legislation like Sheila Jackson Lee’s Sabika Sheikh Firearms Licensing and Registration Act look less extreme.
With all of this, then, the suit against former President Trump could understandably be seen as somewhat of a stunt. Swalwell has long been a publicity hound, and was known for making a lot of unfounded claims about Trump’s alleged collusion with Russia, albeit, he was never fact-checked by social media giants who eagerly go after those not of Swalwell’s political persuasion. Of course, the same outlets who breathlessly hyped the unfounded claims of Trump colluding with Russia ignored that Swalwell was involved with a Chinese spy to some extent.
So, what is Swalwell hoping to accomplish with this litigation? For one thing, even if it fails to secure a verdict favorable to Swalwell, it will tie up former President Trump and the allies named in the suit to some degree, and thereby degrade efforts to put Congress under the control of what would be objectively more Second Amendment leadership in Congress in the 2022 midterm elections.
Of course, the legal system will have to play out on this matter. That means that Second Amendment supporters will have to increase their grassroots efforts and support pro-Second Amendment organizations like the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action and Political Victory Fund to ensure that the current anti-Second Amendment regimes in the House, Senate, and White House are defeated at the ballot box as soon as possible.
About Harold Hutchison
Writer Harold Hutchison has more than a dozen years of experience covering military affairs, international events, U.S. politics and Second Amendment issues. Harold was consulting senior editor at Soldier of Fortune magazine and is the author of the novel Strike Group Reagan. He has also written for the Daily Caller, National Review, Patriot Post, Strategypage.com, and other national websites.
Eric Swalwell is a real piece of shit. There is nothing about him that is admirable. Of course, the Useless with praise anything he does. It just shows how sad we have become as a nation.
Call him what he is, an oath breaking communist,
Anti-Constitutionalist=Anti-American=Enemy of the United States…
His best idea was to nuke anyone who supported the second amendment in the last Presidential Primary, Get this man straight jacket, Thorazine infusions, and a rubber room!
His name is missed spelled.it’s
Swallowswell
This guy is ate up with the dumb ass, I can’t believe how the people of California keeps electing these type of folks to congress, no wonder their state is in such a mess and they want to do the same to the entire country.
TDS is alive in his head while he pines for Fang Fang.
So when are we going to get it together and stop paying lip service to the NRA? They’ve ignored their fiduciary duties to us and egregiously mismanaged funds. Their action at this point is woefully inadequate, and more for the theatre. When are we going to openly support other organizations that haven’t used our money like a personal allowance? When are we going to stop talking about the NRA like they’re the only game in town, and become vocal about supporting the other organizations that have been building a track record of clear and direct action?
Swallwell is exactly the kind of government the people of the Bay Area want. The vast majority in the Bay Area want to be governed. They do not want to self-govern. They do not want others to be free. They want to be an elite. What they do not realize is this one hard truth: they think they are part of the cool kids until the cool kids no longer need them to claim total power. Then they become part of the masses. History rhymes.
I’m firmly convinced that politicians like Swalwell are products of voter manipulating. We constantly blame voters for these pathetic idiots who get elected but I’m not so sure anymore. Elections, past present or future cannot be trusted.
Why doesn’t someone sue Swallowswell’s commie farting ass? Or sue Bloe Jiden for his “executive orders” like they did everytime Trump made an order?
If the idiots proposing such unconstitutional legislations were tasked with personally enforcing any that became laws, this nonsense would cease.
Just another democrap that needs to move to China