California Rep. Eric Swalwell is trying really hard to get his name in the national conversation, mostly through absurd anti-gun statements and positions. He proposed a massive gun confiscation and threatened to nuke millions of law-abiding Americans if they failed to comply. Then he invented the Constitutional right of feeling safe to justify nullifying the actual Constitutional right of gun ownership. Now he’s back demanding that gun manufactures put speed limits on firearms or something crazy like that. It’s actually unclear what the hell he wants, other than the complete destruction of the 2nd Amendment.
CNN reported this seemingly uninteresting piece of news:
Volvo is limiting its cars’ top speed to 112 mph for safety.
It is also considering other technology that could put stricter speed limits on cars driving near schools and hospitals. https://t.co/qmHkWo3M6m
— CNN International (@cnni) March 4, 2019
Which set Swalwell off on a gun control tangent because he’s insane:
Just imagine, what if gun manufacturers were just as responsible as @volvocars? What if they recognized assault weapons have no useful role in our communities and stopped making them? Don’t they have a conscience? Or are they motivated purely by greed? #EnoughIsEnough https://t.co/JSluoYU6dY
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) March 4, 2019
See what I’m saying? It seems like he thinks gun manufactures should have to put a speed limit on firearms or maybe a limiter like they do on NASCAR cars. He could mean a variety different things here, but let’s go with the gun speed limit thing, because sadly it the least bonkers thing he may be demanding. Let’s also guess that Swalwell is saying that guns should be limited to the number of rounds they are capable of firing even though that’s not a technologically feasible thing. A gun fires rounds as long as it is in working order and that’s that.
If Volvo is going to limit their cars to a 112mph top speed, that’s not all that restrictive. The fastest speed limits in the US are 70mph so Volvos could still go 42 miles over the speed limit. Even if there were some kind of smart gun tech that could limit the number of rounds a gun could fire in any given time period, 112mph would be the equivalent of several hundred rounds of ammunition. That doesn’t seem helpful from the perspective of an anti-gun wienie like Swalwell.
If Swalwell is talking about limiting the size of magazines that a gun can use, that’s already been done in several liberal states, but this Volvo comparison means that the California democrat would like to see the magazine capacities increased. In his home state 10-round mags are the “speed limit” but 112mph translates into about a 15-round magazine. Again, Swalwell seems to be advocating more firepower not less.
As a gun-hating liberal Swalwell obviously doesn’t know anything about how firearms work so perhaps he thinks there should be a limit on a the rate of fire for guns. The current speed limit on civilian firearms is one round fired per trigger pull. If a semi-automatic gun is 70mph, then Swalwell is saying that guns sold to the public should at least have 3-round burst capabilities. I doubt this was what he was getting at either. In addition to being bad at guns, Swalwell sucks at analogies.
Swalwell calls for a ban on assault rifles and should be pleased to know that he already has his wish. Well, he would be if he had any idea what he was talking about. “Assault rifle” is a made-up liberal term, but full-auto weapons are not currently available to the general public.
After all of this nonsense, Swalwell tries to drive home his point by making it seem like gun manufactures are evil because they are “driven by greed.” What company isn’t? No seriously. Companies sell products and services in an effort to make money. The ones that aren’t trying to make money are called non-profit organizations. Why are gun makers any more evil than coffee sellers or movie studios? They are all trying make more money than they spend on labor and materials. This is part of that capitalism thing which keeps our economy going.
Which brings us back to Swalwell shitty guns/cars false equivalency: cars kill more people than guns every single year. If you remove suicides and illegal gun usage by comparing lawful gun ownership versus lawful car ownership: cars kill a shitload more annually. Where’s Duke Nukem’s angry tweet about how the car manufactures are motivated by greed?
