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Watch Eric Swalwell Absolutely DESTROY Jim Jordan: ‘We Democrats are Here for the Kids, Who are You Here For?’

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Evidently, Jim Jordan thought it would be a powerful line of argument if he said that Democrats were trying to dramatically upend and change the country, making it sound as though dramatically changing gun rights in the country would end America as we know it. The rising star in the Democratic party, Eric Swalwell, jumped in. Absolutely, Democrats are trying to dramatically change the country. They are trying to stop the next school shooting.

Swalwell said that they are burying kids in Superman coffins, putting kids in the ground today. He noted that a constituent of his wrote him a story about her young daughter seeing the Uvalde pictures, asked her mother, “What picture will you use for me?” a gunt punch to any parent or grandparent – and the Republicans on the committee are parents and grandparents. Swalwell directed his comments directly at Jim Jordan who did what most people do when being owned in a congressional committee hearing, he talked to an aid.

But Swalwell’s most powerful line came through a question. He noted that every Democrat on the Committee was there for the kids, trying to help kids throughout the country, and then calmly but sternly asked Jordan, “If we are here for the kids, who are you here for? The killers? Because every idea you are pushing is to make it easier for the next killer by adding more guns into the system.”

Watch this and prepare to get chills as it seems so obvious and impossible to argue around:

Now that kind of confrontation is exactly what is needed. The House should pass the most sweeping and powerful laws passed in the last forty years and send it over to the Senate and let the Senate block it. Then make it a huge campaign issue and actually campaign on it this time. Maybe this time voters are angry enough to actually send some of these people home.

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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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