A Dunce Talks Gun Confiscation

Never has the national dialogue on guns been more bankrupt of intellectual honesty than in the recent stupefying opinions expressed by U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif.

Swalwell, a congressman from the San Francisco Bay area, aptly began his recent attempt at virtue signaling to his progressive base in USA Today—a newspaper that too often reads like a national attempt to dumb down American discourse.

“[W]e should ban possession of military-style semi-automatic 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,” wrote Swalwell.

Swalwell then held up Australia’s gun confiscation in the late 1990s as a model for us to follow.

Then, caught up in the applause from the mainstream media, Swalwell forgot the old saw, “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.” When NBC News asked him to explain his gun confiscation idea, he broadcast what he is full of.

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