Swalwell Now Trying To Pretend He’s One Of Us

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Elise Amendola

Rep. Eric “Nuke ’em All” Swalwell is one of the slew of Democrats vying to win their party’s nomination for the presidency. At this point, Swalwell seems to be primarily a one-issue candidate. While he’s talked about more than gun control, that’s his primary focus.

Because of that and his previous comments suggesting his willingness to nuke Americans who refuse to comply with his gun control scheme, he gets a lot of attention from the pro-gun crowd, myself included. It’s attention he wouldn’t get at all, even if running for president.

However, it seems that Swalwell also grossly misunderstands that attention.

They (the NRA) hate me because they know I’m not the bogeyman they want … I feel comfortable shooting guns. I do shoot guns. I think that they want the person who is proposing tougher gun laws to be someone who’s never handled a gun before.https://t.co/EdLpxAVt6V

— Eric Swalwell (@ericswalwell) May 6, 2019

First, hate is such a strong word. No one hates Swalwell. I don’t particularly like him, but it’s not because he’s some boogeyman. He’s just the latest in a long line of politicians who crave power and, at the same time, seek to …Read the Rest

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