Source: independentminute.com

Well, well, well, we were told that no one wants our guns, that no one was going to make us give them up.  As usually the left has been lying to us.   What this Democratic Congressman just suggested would lead to a second American Civil War.  The tyranical Congressman wants to force Americans to turn in their ‘assault rifles’ or become criminals.  His excuse?  “the right to live is supreme over any other.”  How he comes to suggest taking my right to defend my life as a means of protecting my life remains to be seen …

NBC News Reports: A Democratic congressman has proposed outlawing “military-style semiautomatic assault weapons” and forcing existing owners to sell their weapons or face prosecution, a major departure from prior gun control proposals that typically exempt existing firearms.

Swalwell proposes that the government should offer up to $1,000 for every weapon covered by a new ban, estimating that it would take $15 billion to buy back roughly 15 million weapons — and “criminally prosecute any who choose to defy [the buyback] by keeping their weapons.”

In the past, Democrats and gun safety groups have carefully resisted proposals that could be interpreted as “gun confiscation,” a concept gun rights groups have often invoked as part of a slippery slope argument against more modest proposals like universal background checks.

“There’s something new and different about the surviving Parkland high schoolers’ demands,” he wrote. “They dismiss the moral equivalence we’ve made for far too long regarding the Second Amendment. I’ve been guilty of it myself, telling constituents and reporters that ‘we can protect the Second Amendment and protect lives.’”

Instead, he writes, “the right to live is supreme over any other.” Read More @ NBC News