In Stand Your Ground states, you can use a firearm in self-defense when you or someone else is likely to be the victim of a "forcible felony" where you may well be seriously injured. One of those felonies is rape.
And honestly, rapists deserve to be shot, which makes it kind of obvious why disgraced former Congressman Eric Swalwell was so anti-gun.
I mean, the allegations against him are serious, to say the least. In addition to sleeping around, having a relationship with a Chinese spy--we already knew about that one--and sexually harassing staffers, he is accused of several cases of sexual assault.
One of which allegedly took place after speaking at a gun control event.
Disgraced Rep. Eric Swalwell allegedly raped a former staffer in New York City after taking the stage at an anti-gun violence gala he attended with the victim, The Post has learned.
Swalwell and his former aide were guests at the annual Brady Action Awards in Midtown on April 25, 2024, where the congressman was a guest speaker among other dignitaries, according to sources and a CNN report.
Swalwell was listed among the “awardees, special guests, and host committee members” at the event, held at the Ziegfeld Ballroom in Manhattan and hosted by director Judd Apatow.
After The Post reached out to the Brady organization seeking comment, the press release listing Swalwell alongside other luminaries including Sen. Chuck Schumer, actor Bradley Whitford and comedian W. Kamau Bell was conspicuously taken offline.
Video of the event was also completely scrubbed from the anti-gun advocacy group’s YouTube page, which left the streams of the 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2025 events available for viewing at the time of writing.
I can't imagine why they'd want to do that.
Look, I get that it's not a good look for them, but the internet is forever. We all know he was there, and now we all know what he (allegedly) did afterward.
Considering both he and his fellow disgraced congressional colleague, Tony Gonzales, who might be a Republican but was also anti-gun, are good reasons why my current working hypothesis is that the reason a lot of, if not all, male gun control activists want guns restricted is that they figure they're someone awful enough to deserve to get shot.
I'm not condoning violence, except in self-defense. What I'm saying is that it looks like both were awful enough people that they knew someone would likely want to shoot them because of their behavior, even without the possibility of someone wanting to take them out over politics. They likely figured, especially in Swalwell's case, that he'd get shot in self-defense after he tried to sexually assault someone who was armed.
Predators tend to prefer disarmed prey, after all.
Even without that aspect, though, there's just an irony to him allegedly raping a woman right after a gun control event filled with stars and politicians who all think self-defense isn't really a thing.
Let's just say that if the first victim had been armed, it's entirely possible that there wouldn't be any more victims afterward. That's how shooting evil criminals works, after all.
