Kamala Harris has made it a straightforward selection for gun homeowners on November 5. Harris has a decades-long observe report of attacking the Second Modification and supporting gun bans and gun confiscation.
Harris is an Anti-Second Modification Extremist
In 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court docket determined District of Columbia v. Heller. The case involved a problem to Washington, D.C.’s complete ban on handgun possession. In overruling the ban, the Court docket made clear that the Second Modification protects a person proper to maintain and bear arms for lawful functions, together with self-defense.
If it was as much as Harris, People wouldn’t take pleasure in a person proper to maintain and bear arms.
In 2008, Harris was the district lawyer of San Francisco. On this capability, Harris endorsed an amicus curiae transient of district attorneys in assist of the District of Columbia and its handgun ban within the Heller case. In a January 2008 press launch touting the transient, the San Francisco District Lawyer’s Workplace defined that Harris was “main” this effort to assist the unconstitutional handgun ban.
Advocating in opposition to the person proper to maintain and bear arms, the transient argued:
(C)ourts have persistently sustained legal firearms legal guidelines in opposition to Second Modification challenges by holding that, inter alia, (i) the Second Modification gives solely a militia-related proper to bear arms, (ii) the Second Modification doesn’t apply to laws handed by state or native governments,
Based on the doc, the Second Modification doesn’t shield a person proper, however moderately, the decrease courtroom in Heller “create[d]” this proper. The transient acknowledged:
The decrease courtroom’s resolution, nonetheless, creates a broad non-public proper to own any firearm that may be a “lineal descendant” of a founding period weapon and that’s in “frequent use” with a “navy software” as we speak.
Anticipating the Supreme Court docket’s transfer within the subsequent landmark Second Modification case (McDonald v. Chicago(2010)), Harris’s transient acknowledged that the Second Modification proper to maintain and bear arms shouldn’t be included to the states. Had this pondering been adopted, state and native governments could be empowered to curtail and even extinguish gun rights with out restraint. State and native governments would have been in a position to bar their residents from proudly owning any firearms in any respect.
Harris’s excessive views on the Second Modification are much more harmful contemplating her willingness to pack the Supreme Court docket to safe her and her political allies’ most well-liked coverage outcomes.
In a 2019 article titled, “Kamala Harris Says She’s ‘Open’ to Increasing Supreme Court docket,” Bloomberg reported,
“I’m considering having that dialog,” [Harris] stated in Nashua, New Hampshire, in response to a query about whether or not she favors including as many as 4 seats to the courtroom. “I’m open to this dialog about growing the variety of folks on america Supreme Court docket.”
Additional, in 2020, New York Occasions reporter Alexander Burns acknowledged that Harris informed him that she was considering packing the Supreme Court docket. Burns was recorded stating, “Harris informed me in an interview really that she was completely open to doing that…”
There’s each purpose to imagine that any Harris courtroom packing scheme would contain putting in a stable anti-Second Modification majority to the Supreme Court docket that may work to eradicate recognition of the person proper to maintain and bear arms.
Harris Helps Gun Confiscation
Harris has repeatedly expressed assist for a compulsory gun “buyback” program the place People could be compelled to show over their firearms to the federal government for a set value – in different phrases: gun confiscation.
Right here is Harris supporting gun confiscation, in her personal phrases:
At a September 2019 marketing campaign occasion, Harris informed reporters that confiscating commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms was “a good suggestion.” Elaborating on her assist for a obligatory “buyback” program, Harris added, “Now we have to work out the main points — there are loads of particulars — however I do…Now we have to take these weapons off the streets.”
(Sahil Kapur, Kamala Harris Helps Necessary Buyback of Assault Weapons, Bloomberg, September 6, 2019)
On the September 16, 2019 episode of “The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon,” Harris reiterated her assist for gun confiscation. Throughout a question-and-answer session, an viewers member requested Harris “Do you imagine within the obligatory buyback of quote-unquote assault weapons and whether or not or not you do, how does that concept not go in opposition to basically the Second Modification?”
The candidate responded, “I do imagine that we have to do buybacks.” Making clear that she believes People’ Second Modification rights are on the market, Harris added “A buyback program is a good suggestion. Now we have to do it the proper method. And a part of that needs to be, you already know, purchase again and provides folks their worth, the monetary worth.”
(The Tonight Present With Jimmy Fallon, NBC, September 16, 2019, Watch the Video)
On October 2, 2019, Harris known as for gun confiscation throughout an MSNBC “gun security discussion board.” Through the occasion, Harris had the next alternate with MSNBC anchor Craig Melvin.
Melvin: As you already know, the ‘94 assault weapons ban, it didn’t apply to weapons that have been bought earlier than 1994. What would you do in regards to the thousands and thousands, particularly assault weapons, which are already in circulation? What do you do about these?”
Harris: Properly, there are roughly 5 million, to your level Craig. Now we have to have a buyback program and I assist a compulsory buyback program. It’s obtained to be good, we obtained to do it the proper method, however there are 5 million at the least some estimate as many as 10 million and we’re going to need to have good public coverage that’s about taking these off the streets.
(2020 Gun Security Discussion board, MSNBC, October 2, 2019, Watch the Video)
On October 31, 2019, Harris known as for gun confiscation at a public tv candidates discussion board in Ankeny, Iowa. Responding to a query about gun management, Harris answered, “I assist buybacks.” The discussion board moderator then requested Harris, “How obligatory is your gun buyback program?” Harris made clear, “It’s obligatory.”
(IPTV Presents Conversations with Presidential Candidates, Iowa PBS, October 31, 2019, Watch the Video)
Harris Supported a TOTAL Handgun Ban
In 2005, as San Francisco district lawyer, the now-vice president was listed as a sponsor of Proposition H, which was a poll measure that sought to ban the possession of ALL handguns within the metropolis. Whereas the measure was authorized by far-left San Francisco voters, it was struck down by the courts after NRA challenged it.
To be clear, this was not a ban on the longer term sale or possession of handguns, it was a ban on ALL handguns, which suggests, had it stood, firearms would both need to be faraway from the town or turned over to authorities (i.e., confiscated).
Furthermore, in January 2006, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom despatched a letter to the town Board of Supervisors requesting the utmost jailtime out there underneath state legislation for individuals who violated the town handgun ban. Particularly, the letter learn,
In accordance with Proposition H and in session with the Chief of Police, District Lawyer, Sheriff and the Metropolis Lawyer, we’re calling for the utmost penalty underneath state legislation for metropolis residents who violate this voter authorized ordinance. (emphasis added)
Harris Advocated for Authorities Brokers to Invade Gun Homeowners’ Properties to Examine Authorized Weapons
Throughout a Might 16, 2007 press convention to advertise San Francisco gun management laws pushed by Mayor Gavin Newsom and DA Harris, the candidate advocated for presidency officers to have the ability to intrude into law-abiding gun homeowners’ locked properties to examine their firearm storage preparations.
Harris acknowledged:
We’re going to require accountable behaviors amongst everyone locally, and simply since you legally possess a gun within the sanctity of your locked residence doesn’t imply that we’re not going to stroll into that residence and examine to see when you’re being accountable and protected in the way in which you conduct your affairs.
It’s troublesome to overstate the influence of Harris’s proposal, have been it to be carried out nationwide. Roughly half of American properties could be topic to authorities intrusion.
On November 21, 2023 NBC Information printed an article titled, “Ballot: Gun possession reaches report excessive with American voters.” The article defined, “Greater than half of American voters — 52% — say they or somebody of their family owns a gun, per the newest NBC Information nationwide ballot.”
The Alternative is Clear
On November 5, gun homeowners and different freedom-loving People have the ability to reject Kamala Harris’s radical and harmful anti-gun and anti-Second Modification insurance policies.
—Courtesy NRA-ILA
