As Vice President Kamala Harris (D) is the presumptive nominee for the Democrat Party, her team, gun-control groups and the mainstream media are working tirelessly to distance her from, incredibly, her own policy stances on our freedom.
Amongst other issues, Harris is attempting to back away from her radical anti-Second Amendment stances, which are even more extreme than those of President Joe Biden (D).
According to Fox News, “A Harris campaign official told the [New York] Times that Harris staffers plan to paint Republicans who drudge up Harris’ past statements espousing left-wing ideas as exaggerated claims or lies about Harris’ record.”
In reality, it is completely normal to judge a politician by their record, including public statements; after all, that’s the platform they run on. It’s not as if Harris took such anti-freedom positions decades ago. She stated her extremist views during her failed run for the presidency just four years ago and has continued to support such views as vice president under Joe Biden.
During that failed presidential campaign, in which she dropped out before the primaries with 15 other major candidates remaining in the race, Harris actually ran to the left of Joe Biden on the issue of our constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
In a 2019 town-hall event, Harris said, “Upon being elected, I will give the United States Congress 100 days to get their act together and have the courage to pass reasonable gun-safety laws. And if they fail to do it, then I will take executive action.”
She later echoed this in a June 2019 debate, further stating that if Congress did not pass her agenda, she would evade the legislative branch entirely and use executive orders to pass new gun-control laws within her first 100 days.
When this was brought up in a debate months later, it was actually Joe Biden who said, “There’s no constitutional authority to issue that executive order when they say I’m going to eliminate assault weapons, saying you can’t do it by executive order any more than Trump can do things.”
Harris responded by saying, “Hey, Joe, instead of saying, ‘No, we can’t,’ let’s say ‘yes, we can.’”
Harris would continue to push for even more extreme restrictions, such as the “mandatory buybacks” she promoted during an appearance on Jimmy Fallon’s show in September of 2019 and, just a month later, Harris declared that “we have to have a buyback program” at a March for Our Lives gun-control event.
“Mandatory buybacks” are merely a more polite way of referring to the forced confiscation of legally purchased and possessed firearms Harris would like to deem illegal. Once deemed illegal, she suggests trying to soften the idea of the government seizing private property by paying the former owners a modest compensation—out of the coffers of our tax dollars—and mislabeling the scheme a “buyback,” even though the guns were not previously sold by the government.
And since taking the office of vice president, Harris has only continued her crusade against the Second Amendment. As The New York Times reported, “Since she joined Mr. Biden’s ticket in 2020, Ms. Harris has seldom put forward policies that differ much from his.”
As vice president, Harris was named head of Biden’s newly created, and Orwellian-named, “Office of Gun Violence Prevention.” She has officially overseen the following goals in this role:
- To ban “assault weapons and high-capacity magazines”
- To require so-called “safe-storage of firearms”
- To require “background checks for all gun sales”
- To eliminate “gun manufacturers’ immunity from liability”
- To “put more police officers on our streets for accountable, community policing and invest in gun violence prevention and intervention”
And of course, this all comes from an administration led by Joe Biden, who repeatedly claims that nothing he proposes infringes on the Second Amendment. Alas, we have been told to believe Biden’s words, but not his actions. The same playbook is now being used for Harris.
In fact, Harris has repeatedly shown herself to be completely anti-Second Amendment in multiple speeches since Biden dropped his reelection bid. In her first campaign speech, she said she “will finally pass red-flag laws, universal background checks and an assault weapons ban.”
She repeated this almost verbatim in a speech just four days later and in another just three days after that.
As the NRA Institute for Legislative Action noted in a larger piece about Harris’ record, “NRA members and other gun-rights activists must work to inform their family, friends, neighbors, and other freedom-minded individuals about the dangers Harris poses to the Second Amendment, their way of life, and their personal property.”
