Harris Campaign Says She Will Ban “Assault Weapons” as She Claims Gun Ownership in Debate

On September 9, 2024, the Kamala Harris marketing campaign launched a sparse set of insurance policies lower than two days earlier than the presidential debate. The controversy was held on September 10, with former President and main presidential candidate Donald Trump. In line with the British left-wing paper, the Guardian, the posting of coverage positions got here after criticism in regards to the lack of coverage specifics. Throughout the debate, Kamala Harris claimed she was a gun proprietor and she or he would by no means take anybody’s weapons. Nonetheless, in her marketing campaign coverage assertion, candidate Harris says she is going to ban “assault weapons.” Whereas “assault weapons” is a political, Orwellian time period utilized by anti-gun proponents, it’s usually understood to incorporate most semi-automatic firearms.

Listed below are the particular insurance policies that influence rights protected by the Second Modification and makes an attempt of the Democratic celebration to exert management over the Supreme Court docket. The coverage positions are sparse. Listed below are the official quotes. From kamalaharris.com:

President Biden and Vice President Harris inspired bipartisan cooperation to go the primary main gun security regulation in practically 30 years, which included report funding to rent and prepare over 14,000 psychological well being professionals for our colleges. As head of the first-ever White Home Workplace of Gun Violence Prevention, she spearheaded insurance policies to develop background checks and shut the gun present loophole.

Each “gun violence” and “gun present loophole” are, once more, Orwellian phrases meant to deceive and promote a desired final result. They’ve little to do with actuality. “Gun violence” is outlined to incorporate suicides, homicides, and accidents, all of which have totally different causes and methods of prevention. The time period “gun violence” ties these totally different conditions, a few of that are dedicated with weapons, into an entire to form the narrative that weapons are a trigger, not a way. Deadly accidents with weapons have been lowered by 94% because the variety of weapons within the USA per capita has risen by 4,300 %.  Because the variety of weapons per individual within the USA elevated by 4.3, the speed of deadly accidents with weapons has declined from 1.84 per 100K inhabitants to .15 per 100K inhabitants.

Most people who find themselves killed with weapons intentionally kill themselves. They commit suicide. Weapons are a way, not a trigger, of suicide. Place draconian restrictions on gun possession, and the suicide charge doesn’t change. Individuals who wish to kill themselves shift to different strategies.

Homicides are one other means versus trigger scenario. The speed of murder within the USA will not be linked to the speed of gun possession. Gun possession has steadily elevated on this nation, whereas murder charges have risen and fallen.

The Harris marketing campaign has claimed the murder charge is traditionally low. They fail to say the speed of gun possession is traditionally excessive. Gun possession doesn’t trigger homicides. To suppose it does requires ignoring the info collected during the last 60 years.

There isn’t a “gun present loophole”. Weapons bought at gun reveals are topic to the identical restrictions as weapons bought at different locations. The will is to create a database of weapons and gun house owners in america. In any other case there wouldn’t be a requirement to report proprietor info, descriptions and serial numbers of weapons when they’re bought. Elimination of the “gun present loophole” is code for gun registration to facilitate gun confiscation, step by step, or abruptly, someday sooner or later.

The Harris marketing campaign guarantees to straight violate the Second Modification. From the marketing campaign:

 She’ll ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, require common background checks, and assist crimson flag legal guidelines that hold weapons out of the palms of harmful individuals.

Banning “assault weapons” means banning semi-automatic rifles. These are a few of the mostly owned weapons within the USA, related to the bottom variety of homicides. Banning “high-capacity” magazines means banning a few of the most typical components of weapons within the USA, numbering within the a whole bunch of tens of millions. That is straight reverse of what the Supreme Court docket has dominated in regards to the Second Modification.

Utilizing a means-ends argument will not be allowed in instances involving basic rights. In the event that they have been, the First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments would don’t have any which means.  “Common background checks” have been coated. It’s code for common gun registration. “Purple flag legal guidelines” are a approach to confiscate weapons with out due course of. Each state has a course of for locking up harmful individuals. The method has been in place for 50 years, and it has many due course of protections for the one who is being accused of being a hazard to themselves and others. Purple flag legal guidelines, as an alternative, give attention to disarming individuals with out due course of, not on whether or not an individual is harmful or not.

Candidate Kamala Harris can solely accomplish the above insurance policies if she eviscerates the Supreme Court docket. She has plans to take action. From the Harris marketing campaign:

She will even assist commonsense Supreme Court docket reforms—like requiring Justices to adjust to ethics guidelines that different federal judges are certain by and imposing time period limits—to handle the disaster of confidence dealing with the Supreme Court docket.

The Structure straight prohibits time period limits on Supreme Court docket justices. “Ethics guidelines” imposed by the legislature and the manager department straight violate the Supreme Court docket’s constitutional construction as unbiased of the Congress and the Presidency. Neither the Congress nor the manager department is allowed such energy within the Structure. Congress has energy over the inferior courts by the Structure however not over the Supreme Court docket.

The Harris marketing campaign gun and Supreme Court docket insurance policies are a direct assault on the Structure and the rule of regulation.  This has been the coverage of the far left for many years. The “Progressives” in energy liked the Supreme Court docket when it acted as a super-legislature to implement its insurance policies. When it acts as an unbiased judiciary and upholds the boundaries on governmental energy put in place by the Structure, they hate it and work to destroy its independence.

About Dean Weingarten:

Dean Weingarten has been a peace officer, a army officer, was on the College of Wisconsin Pistol Group for 4 years, and was first licensed to show firearms security in 1973. He taught the Arizona hid carry course for fifteen years till the purpose of Constitutional Carry was attained. He has levels in meteorology and mining engineering, and retired from the Division of Protection after a 30 yr profession in Military Analysis, Improvement, Testing, and Analysis.