Kamala Harris is probably the most anti-gun candidate who has ever been as shut as she is to turning into president, even when she has been lower than forthcoming on her particular views on firearms and the Second Modification. It doesn’t assist that she has prevented any significant interplay from the media, the place she might be pressed to clarify her positions. What few appearances she has made have been absolute disasters, regardless that they’ve all been with compliant Harris supporters who’ve dealt with the candidate with child gloves.
With none clearly defined positions coming from Harris for her present marketing campaign, we are able to solely depend on her historical past of firearm-related statements and the few imprecise feedback she or her marketing campaign surrogates have made as she seeks to usurp the job at present held by Joe Biden.
To be completely sincere, relating to firearms and the Second Modification, Kamala Harris is working a marketing campaign of disinformation, obfuscation, and lies; a marketing campaign supported by compliant “journalists” and sham organizations manufactured to assist obliterate our rights as gun homeowners.
Whereas Harris has tried to assert she helps the Second Modification, she has but to reveal that with both phrases or deeds over a profession the place she has drawn paychecks from just one employer: Taxpayers.
We’ve famous a number of instances that, as a candidate for president in the course of the 2020 election cycle, Harris said that she didn’t need to simply ban semi-automatic firearms, but additionally wished to confiscate these firearms already owned by law-abiding residents. She is now attempting to cover from that previous. She desires gun homeowners to now consider confiscation is now not a part of her plan, however we merely don’t consider her.
Sadly, though not surprisingly, many members of the media are very happy to give Harris cowl on her new declare that she doesn’t need to confiscate firearms. The sarcastically misnamed web site FactCheck.org tried to offer Harris cowl, claiming NRA “misleadingly claims that Harris will ‘ban law-abiding residents from proudly owning’ weapons and ‘seize your legally owned weapons.’ Her proposal wouldn’t ban all weapons or seize any weapons.”
However NRA has not stated Harris desires to “ban all weapons.” She very properly might, however what we have now stated, and what Harris has stated, is she desires to ban what she calls “assault weapons.” These are weapons—and among the hottest weapons bought in America—so, sure, she desires to ban law-abiding residents from proudly owning these weapons, in addition to others.
To place a finer level on Harris desirous to ban weapons—and never simply so-called “assault weapons”—in 2005, when she was San Francisco district legal professional, 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 authorised by far-left San Francisco voters, it was struck down by the courts after NRA challenged it.
And to be clear, this was not a ban on the long run sale or possession of handguns, it was a ban on ALL handguns, which implies, had it stood, firearms would both must be faraway from the town or turned over to authorities (i.e., confiscated).
To date, Harris has not but said she now not helps such a ban and confiscation scheme—both for San Francisco gun homeowners or gun homeowners writ massive.
FactCheck goes on to assert the Harris marketing campaign famous the candidate “is now not advocating that Individuals be required to surrender weapons they legally bought.” Now, that didn’t come straight from Harris, however from some unnamed marketing campaign staffer. It is likely to be extra plausible (however not likely) if Harris made the assertion, then elaborated as to why she has modified (we don’t consider she has) her place.
The web site goes on to notice, presumably as a protection of Harris’s declare she is “in favor of the Second Modification,” that the candidate said, “Tim Walz and I are each gun homeowners.” This was claimed throughout her debate with Donald Trump, after Trump precisely famous Harris helps banning and confiscating firearms. FactCheck additionally refers to a current interview with Oprah Winfrey, the place Harris claimed, “I’m a gun proprietor; Tim Walz is a gun proprietor. If any person breaks into my home, they’re getting shot.”
At the very least a part of that assertion to Winfrey is probably going correct, as Harris is below the safety of the US Secret Service, and her present “home” is positioned on the very safe grounds of the US Naval Observatory. But when anybody thought Harris meant she, as a gun proprietor, would use deadly drive to defend herself in opposition to an intruder, considered one of her advisors, Keisha Lance Bottoms, later clarified that the remark was “a joke.”
We’re not certain if the “joke” was about Harris taking pictures somebody, or if it was about her being a gun proprietor; or if we must always merely embrace the facility of “and.” Regardless, all of this merely reinforces the notion of Harris’s said views on weapons being a part of a concerted disinformation marketing campaign.
Oh, and concerning the declare she is “in favor of the Second Modification”? That would additionally use some clarification. Let’s not neglect that Harris endorsed an amicus temporary to the US Supreme Courtroom that argued the Second Modification does not shield a person proper, and that stated proper shouldn’t be integrated to the states. Simply what, precisely, does she imply when she says she is “in favor of the Second Modification”?
Then there’s the media’s disingenuous strategy to selling candidate Harris. To that, we provide this:
A New Jersey on-line information outlet, NJ.com, just lately ran a narrative with the headline “Harris will get beautiful endorsement from group that usually backs Trump.” The story associated that Harris had “snagged the endorsement of a nationwide regulation enforcement group,,,,”
However the group, Police Leaders for Neighborhood Security (PLCS), was invented earlier this 12 months, and that is the group’s first EVER political endorsement. So the headline is patently false, because the group has not solely by no means endorsed Trump, it has by no means endorsed ANYONE. Calling the group a “nationwide regulation enforcement group” might not be patently false, however contemplating USA At this time reported PLCS “describes itself as a company that represents dozens of police officers” hardly evokes the picture of a big “nationwide regulation enforcement group.”
A fast evaluation of the PLCS web site reveals that the group is little greater than yet one more member of the anti-gun industrial advanced. Its focus seems to be on selling anti-gun legal guidelines, and its present President and CEO is Gail Hoffman, who served as Legislative Director of Handgun Management, Inc. (now recognized merely as Brady), from 1987-1992, then served within the anti-gun Clinton Administration.
So, sure, that is merely a sham endorsement for a deceitful candidate from a man-made “regulation enforcement” group.
In distinction to the endorsement from PLCA, Donald Trump was endorsed by the Nationwide Fraternal Order of Police, the nation’s oldest regulation enforcement group, and the Nationwide Affiliation of Police Organizations, based in 1978. These teams signify greater than 300,000 and 200,000 regulation enforcement officers, respectively.
We all know that the overwhelming majority of those that often learn our alerts would by no means be taken in by Harris’ marketing campaign of disinformation, obfuscation, and lies on her views and supreme objectives relating to firearms and the Second Modification, nor would they be swayed by her dishonest supporters within the media or artificially generated “regulation enforcement” teams. However there are hundreds of thousands of gun homeowners who might not be as properly knowledgeable. That features the estimated tens-of-millions of latest gun homeowners which have made their first firearm buy over the previous couple of years.
It’s crucial that you just readers attain out to fellow gun homeowners or like-minded supporters of freedom who might not be as properly knowledgeable to ensure they know the reality about the place the candidates stand within the upcoming elections. The way forward for the Second Modification is clearly at stake.
-Courtesy NRA-ILA
