Constitution? We don’t need no stinkin’ Constitution. After all, the US Constitution is just “a little piece of paper.” We need to “reimagine” freedom, per a Soros, er, Harris surrogate.
They’re Communists. https://t.co/OsSwxG7zWi
— James Lindsay, anti-Communist (@ConceptualJames) August 26, 2024
Oh look, Commie Harris refers to the little Constitution book that then nominee for Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh carries with him.
Related: Piers Morgan gets owned by Ben Shapiro.
The Dems’ platform has regressed from recognizing the right to own guns for “responsible gun owners” almost a decade ago to… well, give us gun control, common sense gun control, and give it to us NOW. By any means necessary.
Jacob Sullum at Reason Magazine writes about how neither Harris nor “her” party perceives any Constitutional constraints on her gun control agenda.
While this year’s Republican Party platform makes only a passing reference to Second Amendment rights, the platform approved at the Democratic National Convention this week does not mention them at all. But it does include eight references to “gun safety” and a section that brags about the Biden administration’s accomplishments in this area while laying out an agenda of additional firearm restrictions.
That treatment of this subject is similar to the approach that Democrats took in 2016, when their platform mentioned “the rights of responsible gun owners” but did not elucidate the basis of those rights, and in 2020, when the platform did not go even that far. The 2016 platform devoted a paragraph to gun control, which became two paragraphs in 2020 and has now expanded to five. Neither of the two most recent platforms so much as alludes to respect for gun rights.
By contrast, Democrats in 2000 promised to “respect the rights of hunters, sportsmen, and legitimate gun owners.” Four years later, after the gun issue, including Al Gore’s support for banning “assault weapons,” was widely blamed for contributing to George W. Bush’s election, Democrats promised to “protect Americans’ Second Amendment right to own firearms.” The 2008 and 2012 platforms included similar language, in both cases explicitly invoking the Second Amendment, which disappeared in the 2016 platform and now does not even seem like a dim memory for Democrats.
Don’t stop reading there. There’s SO much more!
The Democrats’ implication that loose gun control was responsible for the 2020 spike in homicides likewise is hard to take seriously. There was no change in gun policy that could account for that surge. Nor was there any change in gun policy that could account for the recent declines in homicide—a development that Democrats are quick to emphasize when Trump tries to blame the Biden administration for a supposedly “skyrocketing” murder rate. And their implicit thesis that more guns mean more violence is contradicted by crime trends since the early 1990s: From 1993 to 2013, when the homicide rate fell by more than half, the estimated number of guns owned by Americans rose by about the same percentage.
In contrast with Trump’s record of doing (approximately) “nothing” to restrict guns, the Democrats brag about President Joe Biden’s support for the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA) of 2022, “the first significant federal gun safety law in nearly 30 years.” The BSCA, they say, “includes the first-ever federal gun trafficking and straw purchasing law.” The platform does not mention that the BSCA defines “gun trafficking” broadly enough to encompass “prohibited persons” who obtain firearms, creating a new charge, punishable by up to 15 years in prison, for people like Biden’s own son, who was convicted in June of buying a revolver when he was a crack cocaine user.
Those prohibited persons include millions of Americans with no history of violence, whom Congress has arbitrarily deemed felons if they dare to exercise their Second Amendment rights. The categories include cannabis consumers and other illegal drug users, anyone who has ever been subjected to involuntary psychiatric treatment because he was deemed suicidal, and anyone who has ever been convicted of a crime punishable by more than a year of incarceration, whether or not it involved violence of any sort.
Before the law that Democrats proudly cite, those people already faced up to three felony charges for buying firearms; the BSCA’s “gun trafficking” provision added yet another. The same law also increased the maximum penalty for illegal gun possession from 10 years to 15 years. Biden evidently thought that people like his son were getting off too lightly.
In recent years, these sweeping bans on gun possession have provoked many constitutional challenges, some of which have been successful. But since Democrats do not even acknowledge the existence of the Second Amendment, they are happy to double down on this unjust and irrational policy. And they promise more of the same, saying they will “establish universal background checks” aimed at enforcing these restrictions.
The Democratic agenda also includes a new federal “assault weapon” ban, another illogical, constitutionally dubious policy that even Biden has admitted has no effect on the lethality of guns available to would-be murderers. They want to “end the gun
industry’s immunity from liability” for legally selling guns that are later used to commit crimes, allowing lawsuits that would undermine the Second Amendment by attacking businesses that enable Americans to exercise the rights it guarantees. Democrats also promise “a national red flag law,” which would compound the due process and Second Amendment violations we have already seen in states that have embraced this policy.
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That should give you a preview of what Commie Harris would like to inflict upon gun owners.
At Guns Save Life we can’t endorse candidates or political parties, but we can educate folks on the candidates. Your freedom, liberty and firearm ownership rights hang in the balance this election. Vote accordingly and make sure the right-minded friends of your do the same.
Because Kamala Harris has no plans to go back to peace and prosperity. At home or abroad.
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