Vice President Kamala Harris has already been an integral part of the most extreme anti-Second Amendment administrations in American history. But things will get even worse for responsible gun owners if Harris takes charge next January.
During her very first campaign rally in Wisconsin after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race, Harris pledged that her administration would “pass red flag laws, universal background checks, and an assault weapons ban” – three pillars of anti-Second Amendment activism. Prominent anti-gun groups have flocked to Harris and offered their enthusiastic endorsement, including Everytown, the Community Justice Action Fund, and the Newtown Action Alliance.
March for our Lives, an anti-gun group ostensibly made up of youth activists but which has heavy involvement from seasoned Democrat activists and organizations, has also thrown its support behind Harris, making her the first politician the group has ever endorsed.
In a chilling comment for gun owners, Harris lauded Australia’s gun control measures during a meeting with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in October 2023. “And let us be clear, it does not have to be this way, as our friends in Australia have demonstrated,” she stated. Australia, which imposed a near total ban on civilian ownership of semi-automatic rifles and semi-automatic and pump-action shotguns in 1996, has often been held up as a model by fringe anti-gun groups.
Harris has also embraced the administration’s war on the Second Amendment as a personal project throughout her time in the vice presidency. At an event in March, Harris called on more states to pass red flag laws and announced the creation of a “National Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) Resource Center.”
As pro-Second Amendment groups have warned, ERPOs are a convenient avenue for anti-gun activists to weaponize legitimate concerns about gun safety to target responsible and law-abiding gun owners. In effect, the policy allows courts to seize privately-owned firearms without any due process or hard evidence that a gun owner may be a danger to himself or others.
Harris is also in charge of the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention. Biden established that office in September 2023 supposedly to coordinate federal efforts against gun violence, but in actuality it has waged all-out assault on gun owners and manufacturers.
As the Second Amendment Foundation noted earlier this year, the office “has no website” and “its budget has never been made public. Its staffing levels are not known. Only three actual members have ever been identified – the director and two deputy directors. All three are radical anti-gun zealots.”
Thus far, Harris has faced little scrutiny for her role leading the office or pressure to explain what exactly it has been doing for the past year. But as the new presumptive Democrat nominee, voters now more than ever deserve answers to these questions.
Even with transparency on that front, Harris’s record before she got to the White House could put her in even more hot water with gun owners.
In 2020, for instance, when she was running against Biden for the Democrat nomination, Harris called for a “mandatory buyback” (read: gun grab) program for so-called “assault weapons” – a category that, according to her, includes popular semi-automatic pistols commonly used for self-defense. Explaining her support for a compulsory program, Harris added, “We have to work out the details – there are a lot of details – but I do…We have to take those guns off the streets.”
Harris reiterated her support for gun grabs at least three separate times throughout the rest of her campaign.
Before running for federal office, Harris distinguished herself as one of the most outspoken anti-gun voices in the country as District Attorney of San Francisco and later Attorney General of California.
Harris’s views on the Second Amendment are perhaps best captured by a brief she signed onto in the landmark 2008 Supreme Court case D.C. v. Heller. That brief urged the Court to uphold D.C.’s handgun ban – in effect making clear that Harris does not believe the Second Amendment protects the right to own a handgun.
Instead, the brief Harris endorsed argued that the Second Amendment only protects a “collective” or “militia-related” right to bear arms – and not an individual right. As Cam Ward, a writer on Second Amendment issues for the publication Bearing Arms, put it, “Kamala Harris told the Supreme Court that Americans didn’t have an individual right to possess a firearm that is in common use, turning a right of the people into a privilege to be exercised by a chosen few.”
Harris has never repudiated that interpretation or even offered any explanation for why she signed on to the brief in Heller. Given her statements and actions since, it seems safe to say her views have changed little, if at all.
Kamala Harris has been on a warpath against gun owners since she first entered the public spotlight nearly 20 years ago. Americans expect that crusade will only intensify if she wins the highest office in the land.
Shane Harris is a writer and political consultant from Southwest Ohio. You can follow him on X @shaneharris513.
Harris would be a grave threat to the entire constitution. Not just the 2nd amendment.
That Constitution always seems to get in their way a lot, doesn’t it?
“President Kamala Harris” is a title that should make us all shudder. It means the completion of the liberal agenda to destroy our country. PLEASE Dear Lord, I pray that it is your will that we actually have an election in November and that this demon in flesh, and all the antichrist politicians seeking power be defeated, and that our constitutional liberties be preserved.
All of our Constitutional rights are in danger with her around – especially and including the 2nd Amendment.
Ms Harris is only a threat to the Democratic Party. Ms Harris is only the Co-resident at the White House behind “the Biden” who is resident Biden. They were NOT elected. Democrats stole the 2020 Presidential election, as all of you will soon find out when GOD shows the truth about that election.
I have a Clint Eastwood t-shirt that says “With this country so divided, I’m glad to be on the side with the most guns, and knows which bathroom to use.”
One day there may be a woman in the White House, but NOT THIS WOMAN!
Every Dem president since Nixon has been coming for our guns. Either this is hollow campaign rhetoric or they are not very good at their job.
I don’t think this country is pathetic enough to vote for Kamala Harris, but then again Joe Biden was elected and he had dementia. I think common sense has become obsolete in this country.
I agree with all the people who say Harris would be a grave threat to THE ENTIRE CONSTITUTION! Also, Can we please stop calling her plans for gun confiscation a “mandatory buyback”? You can’t “buyback” something you NEVER OWNED! Also, her so-called buyback plan is a violation of the sections of the constitution which state that the government cannot take a person’s life, liberty or property WITHOUT DUE PROCESS OF LAW.
harris does not have any beliefs. she has far leftists opinion polls and george soros. whatever those polls and soros say she does.
The Second Amendment is only a small part of Harris’ threat to our nation. Kamala Harris and now her running mate are both radical left-wingers who are the biggest internal threat to our nation in my entire 80 years! If the election is honest, she should have no chance as an anti-American candidate. But the election will not be honest, the democrats are working to ensure that, and so the threat is very real. We have never had a more clear choice for the survival or destruction of America.
We’re lucky she didn’t choose that fat vicious vindictive anti-second amendment governor of Illinois as VP.
Look at her VP pick as well
…”universal background checks”…Just great, now we can’t even go to Mars to get a gun.
I don’t believe I am alone in this thought pattern. Come to my door to try to take my guns, I will shoot you, yes I am willing to die, but I will take you with me…
There is nothing, absolutely nothing good about this democrat candidate for the highest office in the land.People better wake up before going and casting a vote for her and her vp pick Gov. Walz from Minnesota. They are a horrible leftist Liberal duo.
Does Kamala go out in public without the need for armed protection?
The whole country is in the most serious trouble with her around She could be Pelosi’s younger sister. Came from the same mold ,which should have been broken long ago.
Harris would remove the 1st and 2nd Amendment from our Constitution and continue to destroy America like her Obama-Hillary-Schumer-Bernie and AOC and her terrior squad. Harris would continue to be a Puppet for them and China just like Biden has been. We just have to pray President Trump wins which he will unless they get another shot at him again.
Make no mistake people, kacklin’ kammy and her vile cabal are most assuredly coming to disarm the American Citizens by any means possible. Once that is done, we will all be at the mercy of the demoncrap communists pushing to strip us of our unalienable rights and for a world government. We will lose our autonomy and our sovereignty. We will lose our homes and our property. We will be forced into electric vehicles and made to live in one of the “Eight Supercenters” the united nations wants built in the United States. The push is on to meet the 2030 deadline set by the united nations 2030 agenda and agenda 21. People should be very afraid of this cretin and rest of the criminals in her crew. This all needs to be stopped now!
The article makes sense. Through vehicles such as student loan forgiveness programs, this Vice President evidently feels that it’s “ok” to buy votes with our taxpayer money, to ultimately benefit… herself.
It is not surprising, then, that she would favor sacrificing the personal safety of families, by eliminating their chosen means of defense, as a token political gesture… to help herself… as personal safety of others does not matter.
True! So, what is being done to push her off the stage? What are the legal and other means being adopted to discount her criminal intent take guns, Strategies, programs, law suits, etc??
HITLER NEW HOW TO DESTROY THE WORLD , HE DISARMED THE PEOPLE , DESTROYED THE MONUMENTS, BURNT THE BOOKS, BRAINWASHED THE CHILDREN AND TURNED THEM AGAINST THEIR PARENTS AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE .
“”O””CRAP THAT IS HAPPING NOW . LOOK OUT HERE IT COMES
Trump is a threat to our democracy, according to the radical far left wingers. Of course their definition of democracy is we will tell you who to vote for, when to vote, how to vote, where to vote, and why to vote. Trump, a threat to that democracy? I can live with that.
What part of the Constitution second amendment that says “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed?”
This bimbo is just as anti-American as was Obiden, just now it is Oharris. It doesn’t matter who they pick to be the democrat nominee, it will still be Obama in charge with George Soros’ money backing them.
kac el la is a threat to any body and any thing – she is not a true American
Harris pledged that her administration would “pass red flag laws, universal background checks, and an assault weapons ban” – three pillars of anti-Second Amendment activism. Full blown communist.Why do the democrats pick since she is guilty of hiding and lying about slow joes dementia and illness?? You can NOT trust her or the democrat jack-ass she wrode in on.
Kackler would be a threat to the entire Bill of Rights! So would “No Balls” Walz (heard that on the radio), who is just as radical as the Kackler. Had to change from Shapiro at the last minute to appease the Jew-hating “squad;” led by the illegal “citizen” Ilhan Omar from (guess where?) Minnesota! This slate IS an “existential threat” to the US!
THE FIRST THING ALL COMMUNISTS OR DICTATORS WANT TO DO IS DISARM THE CITIZENS UNDER THEIR CONTROL.OUR 2ND AMENDMENT IS A GIANT ROADBLOCK TO CONTROL FREAKS/COMMUNISTS/DICTATORS, AND RIGHT NOW AMERICA HAS MORE THAN IT’S SHARE OF THESE WACKOS.
A threat to only those who would submit.
I hear that there is a large percentage of firearms owners that do not take the time to vote. NOW IS THE TIME!!
At 77 years old they can have my guns. They will get my ammo first. FJB FKH
I was a Democrat during my first voting opportunity, I was 18 years old. After 4 years of no change in my state, city or county, too much in taxes, my 401 K’s barely grew and democrats took several rights in my city. That was enough!I changed political parties. I have been a staunch Republican, because I share the same goals with them.I am a second generation Latino American maleWho loves this country. I have a 1970’s education and a degree in the Sciences.40 plus years I have been very confident in the next generations intelligence. However: During the last 20 years I have come to realize that our younger generation do not understand the National debt. or their economic state.When I left college I didn’t even know how to open a bank account much less balance a check book, or it’s importance. I never owned my own business because I wouldn’t allow democratic to tax me and my business to death!I did however become a self made man, I worked hard, invested wisely and saved were I could, I did achieve the American dream. So I, more than most understand what the term: self made man means. I’ve thought about running for political office, but my long standing belief that anyone who has migrated to this country, won’t truly understand what this country truly needs until you’ve been here for at least several generations(5-7).Thank you A true Texan
she’s not president still vice president. Either way she is a threat to the Constitution
Harris and her running mate will destroy this country and what is sick are those mega packs that do not care about this country just one thing they care about is get Harris up into the White House no matter what it takes.
Live by the constitution died, defending the constitution
A vote for Harris and your rights will perish.
not only will your guns be taken away, so will all you freedoms and properties. it’s how socialism works. venezula is the latest great nation, 4th best at the turn of the century before they went socialist. check out how the average family fares. vote wisely lest ye be in chains
Her being a President will give a bolder name to Communist and Socialist. And then will come to prosecute Religious beliefs, etc like WW 2..an extremist to the max!Pray, pray, and may God have Mercy on us!
This country is in serious trouble. If We the People don’t take a strong stand now, heaven only knows where it will all end. I have absolutely no use, no live for Harris, Biden or the administration currently running our country. They have manipulated our laws and our Constitution to suit themselves and their wants (not needs). Common sense? Well we all know that is something that would only be found in history books, if in fact, such books survive this regime.
Kamala Harris will be a grave threat to every fabric of America when it comes to Bill of Rights, Constitution, Education not Indoctrination, Family Comprising of Father & Mother, Flag, The Pledge of Alliance, Religion based on our Christian-Judeo Doctrine, Etc., Etc.
Hey Harris and the Cheshire Cat, I would not pick Texas to start your “Platform” mandatory firearm “buybacks.” LOL!!! The 2nd Amendment will be the final roadblock to Marxism, as it was meant to be.
I do agree that there are certain weapons that the average citizen doesn’t need to have. That said, I also firmly believe that if they would stop at a line and say “this line you will not cross” and stay there these rulings would be more palatable; but we all know that would only be step one and they would immediately move to the next classification of gun until the government is the only ones with a gun.
Their plans are dependent on the House and Senate. If Americans remember how these people, dumocrats, have tried to create a communist country in order to keep power that belongs to the American people. Not a freaking party! I’m confident that the Republican party will take back the House and the Senate, this will ensure a damage free Kamala/Waltz maybe. I really don’t believe Harris/Waltz will win.
OMG The YUPPIE left/ far left politicians are continuing to destroy DEMOCRACY in our beloved country.! They have reversed everything GOOD TRUMP has accomplished !!!!. A SINISTER plot. GOD BLESS AND HELP AMERICA AND ALL AMERICANS GOOD must TRIUMPH over EVIL!
2nd amendment? Don’t stop there. She and her ilk hate the entire Constitution, IMHO.
She is a grave threat to every citizen from those in the womb, to those in hospice. She’s a grave threat to every law, to every Christian, to to every man, woman and child.