In recent weeks, Vice President Kamala Harris has attempted to insulate herself from claims that she would target Second Amendment rights as president. But her own prior statements and actions over the past four years give gun owners reason for alarm.
Since becoming the Democrat nominee, Harris has repeatedly stated that she is “not taking anybody’s guns away.” In her first solo interview, Harris said that she “supports the Second Amendment,” and during her debate with Donald Trump she even claimed that she is a gun owner – raising eyebrows nationwide.
“I own a gun for probably the reason a lot of people do — for personal safety,” she said. “I was a career prosecutor.” (Voters are apparently supposed to ignore the fact that Harris hails from the most notoriously anti-gun state in the country in California, where law-abiding gun owners are routinely arrested for the “crime” of defending their lives and their property from violent intruders.)
As far as the corporate media is concerned, Harris is now a veritable Second Amendment champion. She has carefully repeated the Democrat lines of wanting “common-sense gun reform” and believing that “Americans should have the freedom to live safe from gun violence.”
But Harris’s ostensible moderation on gun rights is a strikingly recent invention.
As a resurfaced clip of Harris from her time as San Francisco District Attorney now making the rounds on social media shows, the vice president has evinced no respect for Americans’ constitutional rights – and not just the right to bear arms. “Just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn’t mean that we’re not going to walk into that home and check to see if you’re being responsible and safe in the way you conduct your affairs,” Harris says.
In addition to suggesting a blatant violation of the Second Amendment, Harris’s comment is also an explicit promise to trample Americans’ Fourth Amendment rights, which protect against “unreasonable searches and seizures.” For Harris, someone merely possessing a gun is reason enough to send law enforcement tearing through their home looking for supposed “violations” of obscure laws which Democrats like Harris write as an excuse to confiscate firearms.
As AMAC Newsline has previously reported, Harris also signed on to a brief in the landmark 2008 Supreme Court case D.C. v. Heller which argued that Americans are not entitled to possess firearms unless they are “affiliated with any state-regulated militia.” In effect, Harris was arguing that the Second Amendment as we know it should be rendered null and void.
During her 2020 presidential primary campaign, Harris even mocked Joe Biden’s hesitation to commit to using executive authority to confiscate so-called “assault weapons” – most often defined by Democrats as any semi-automatic weapon, including many used for hunting and self-defense. Even Biden had to admit it was unconstitutional.
Harris openly mocked Biden for showing at least some reverence for the Constitution, quipping: “I would just say, hey, Joe, instead of saying no we can’t, let’s say, yes we can.”
Harris also called for a “mandatory buyback” program in 2020 – a favorite liberal euphemism for gun grabs. Then-Senator Harris specifically pointed to Australia’s crackdown on gun owners as a model, where authorities forcibly confiscated privately-owned firearms.
As Vice President, Harris’s crusade against the Second Amendment has only intensified. In March, she called on more states to pass red flag laws and announced the creation of a “National Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) Resource Center.” As Second Amendment advocates have warned, ERPOs are little more than legal cover for anti-gun zealots to seize privately owned firearms.
Harris also leads the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, which Biden established last September. Despite the benign-sounding name, the office has done little to actually stop gun violence, and has instead targeted law-abiding gun owners and firearms manufacturers.
Based on current data, about 105 million Americans – or about 40 percent of the country’s adult population – own a firearm. Harris’s past comments indicate that she views every one of these Americans as a potential threat, and would not hesitate to send law enforcement into their homes.
Recognizing the political reality that gun owners are a powerful voting bloc in national elections, Harris will undoubtedly continue to rhetorically pivot toward the center on the Second Amendment between now and Election Day.
But voters should look to Harris’s record as a progressive prosecutor in California and as the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate to get a true sense for how a President Harris views the Second Amendment and how she would treat gun owners. The reality is that no Democrat could become the party’s nominee in 2024 without being an anti-gun extremist.
As her actions show, Harris fits the bill.
Andrew Shirley is a veteran speechwriter and AMAC Newsline columnist. His commentary can be found on X at @AA_Shirley.
VP — WHAT A TWO FACE LIAR!!! It is still unfathomable that there are ignorant supporters for her out there.
Another reason not to believe anything that comes out of the mouth of a Communist. They love to point to Australia as an example of gun control success, but they ignore the fact that law abiding citizens can’t own guns and does nothing to stop criminals from obtaining them. Like every Communist on the Democrat party, they support policies that are ultimately bad for citizens.
The efficient way to dispense of this anti American socialist is to make damn sure she ends up in 2nd place come November.
In the words of Charelton Heston when he was heading the NRA, ‘From my cold dead hands”
Know what a gun is with out a human… A PAPER WEIGHT! IF a plane brought down the twin towers… where is the push to outlaw planes?
Harris is busy to disarm Americans. They have brainwashed the people with making hated enemies of Trump and his supporters. Taking our monetary assets away by mandating buying expensive cars and doing away with gas appliances. High inflation, taxing unrealized income, high fuel costs, rent and mortgages. And now taking our guns. Her flip flopping has nothing to do with that she has changed her mind, just to get elected. In every state she talks how the wind blows that day, just to get votes. Her values haven’t changed. And she has no vision for this country. Joe didn’t have a vision. He ran out of Afghanistan because a 20 year war had to end. In his mind. Only it showed how weak a president he is and now we are sending our boys to die in the Middle East. Same argument just a different place. Thanks Joe for nothing. Remember we had peace under Trump and were respected everywhere in the world. Now we are the laughing stock of the world. Where every week unloaded Russian and Chinese bombers strafe our airspace over Alaska. But the MSM commits radio silence. They are too busy dissecting every word Trump utters and see if they can’t make another lying statement out of it. For he has to go, the dems want total power, forever. The constitutional republic has to go and communism will prevail. Are we going to let them? Do we want more of our young men die or be mutilated in another war that Joe and Kameltoe did nothing to prevent? VOTE TRUMP/VANCE on November 5th.
This video proves Kamala is a liar, and once a liar always a liar, because it is a character flaw. So, never trust a liar, if you want to be safe.
Kamala Harris is and always has been a liar! You think that Hillary was bad.
The day that they outlaw guns is the day that millions of us will become outlaws.
Leftist ideology and the Leftist agenda are, and have always been, based on lies, misinformation, and deception. The greatest enemies of the Left are truth, facts, and reality. Leftists have no choice but to lie; if they were to tell the truth about what they believe and what they intend to do given the power and authority to do so, no one would ever support them. Kamala is lying like she always does, just like all the Democrats.
Harris lies like a rug! She will destroy the Second Amendment first chance she gets!
GOD is going to take her candidacy away! She has already lost!
She is a classic Democrat. Her lips are moving so you know she is lying. They all say whatever they need to say to get elected. Then they’ll do whatever the radical extremist left wants them to. Democrats are determined to burn this nation to the ground so they can rule over the ashes. They are the epitome of evil
I hope everyone becomes aware that we don’t know where she will be on most important issues.
OUT OF MY COLD DEAD HAND!
She is a Marxist, and her VP candidate an unabashed supporter of the Chinese Communist Party, what else would you expect since Xi Jinping referred to American private gun ownership as “a problem”! Harris/Walz are the Fifth Column anti-communist conservative Americans got laughed about for, and made fun of by Hollywood for decades whenever they could. Fact is that China Joe and Tim Walz have a lot in common. Not just in their support for Chinese communism, and their fervor in wanting to turn U.S. citizens into serfs by grabbing their guns, but also in their naivety, and delusion that the Chinese Marxists will have a place for them in their extremely slimlined ethnocentric organization that imprisons even their own minorities, once they manage to rid themselves of our constitutional republic. The Chinese, just like the Russian communists love westerners to commit treason, but they don’t love these traitors once their usefulness has expired; as such even Harris/Walz are just “useful idiots” to them, and once our nation would be no more, who do these imbeciles think would keep the Chinese from reclaiming the financial, and other gains they bestowed upon them with their bribes? Mao was very clear, and succinct what the basis of power for his CCP, and therefore the nature of his government is when he wrote that “power springs forth from the barrel of a gun”, therefore they want the monopoly on that, as on everything else. Vote Trump/Vance in November! Stop the Marxists!
Good luck with that Kamala!
If Comrade Kamala steals the election, the sad day will come when the police officer or military authority will knock on our doors to violate our 2nd and 4th amendment rights. And while at the same time we thank them for their service, we also have to defend our rights.
She has not “evolved” in her opinions, neither has she grown more “moderate”. She’s saying what they told her to say to get elected. Period. If anyone doesn’t know what her position is on anything, just watch the many YouTube videos of her stating them. The woman loves to talk!
Harris is professional LIAR. what amazed me is the millions of people who buy into her lies
We the true american citizens need our 1st,2nd &4th amendments more than ever, if its a democrat talking more reason to be sure to vote them out of office. WE NEED TRUMP MORE THAN EVER BACK IN OFFICE.
Harris is pro the Second Amendment … and I have a small hole in the ground, here in Arizona, up for sale. You may have heard of it … the Grand Canyon? Each is just as likely and feasible.
We have to keep in mind, that you can tell when a politician is lying, by if their lips are moving. She will say what she has to say, to influence voters … in a word salad fashion … with hems and haws included.
She is not a bright woman, she earned her legal past, by means of sexual favors, and earned the second highest position in the land, due to being a woman, of color. (Just what is the color of lying?)
I realized last night, that among her various talents, AG, VP, apparently playing Kettle drums, and various other forms of musical instruments. (Additional talents that will not be spoken here, but are best performed on ones knees) … she is also a talented ventriloquist.
She has been talking out of her ass for at least the last four years.
Well, of course she wants to take law-abiding citizens’ guns away. The power of self-defense is the exclusive domain of the “elite”. She has also stood for fewer police… to give her constituents… like that rapist, burglar, or serial killer… a few extra minutes during each incursion to happily “ply their trade”.
THE CLOWNS HAVE NO IDEA of the HELL THAT WOULD REIGN DOWN ON ANYONE THAT EVER TRIED……..THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN IN AMERICA!!!!!!!!!
At this point in time it is impossible for them to take everyones guns away from law abiding citizens.There are way to mant guns and citizens willing to defend their rights. Biden, Harris and especially the United Nations small arms treaty will NEVER force it to happen as long as there are patriots willing to stand up for their rights!
Are you going to vote for a Socialist, Harris or a Capitalist, Trump?
Yeah, I know how it is. Old Camel-toe has police protection whenever she wanted it. She DIDN’T Have to worry about crooks breaking in her house every night. Based on her prior statements, we can safely say that she is a certified LIAR. She wants to steal tphe firearms of every citizen so that her cronies will be the only ones with weapons. Just remember, a person without a weapon is a SUBJECT. A person with a firearm is a CITIZEN. So we can conclude that Camel-toes wants a nation of subjects, who have to bow down to her tyrannical ways.
The many videos of her proves what a LIAR she is. Can you trust a liar?
On any of these topics where Harris is trying to present a moderate position, the airwaves and internet should be flooded with a video/audio of her past extremely liberal words followed immediately with her recent statement “my values have not changed”.
this would be about the only thing she would follow thru on. more reason to vote trump.
Been saying that since Obama years
The treason party lusts to take away guns because they have plans…many plans, that people wont like. They want their plans to go off without a hitch. For that they need a totally disarmed populace. They hate people from the womb to the grave and wish to act on that hatred.
Wind blows, water flows, fly buzzes and Harris talks. She is dangerous, devious and a liar without a shred of shame. Zombie. She also is poised to become the president of the USA. That sums us up, eagle has been put into a cage
Pray she fails, her and the democrat elites who want CONTROL over you and ALL you own. “Just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn’t mean that we’re not going to walk into that home and check to see if you’re being responsible and safe in the way you conduct your affairs,” Harris says. Reminds me of russia in the 60’s. Cuba too. She would be a hero there. VOTE her away. ***MAGA 2024***
WELL!! This aught to be another episode in illegal gun sales!! The more they push, the more people are buying guns. Government control is out of control!
She speaks with a Forked Tongue.
Interesting article. I’m quite sure gun control is not meant for personal safety. Also? Note gun sales are booming!!! Is this action a ploy? By left yuppie radical Dems to take away the right to bear arms within what’ still remains in our beloved Americsn democracy.????? Alas. ANOTHER. power/ control tactic in the evil quest to destroy. , divide and CONQUER this MO is typical in the Communist. Socialist Marxist mode of operation!!!!
Come and get it SCAMULA
Someone needs to leave their face to her in their will; so she’ll have one when the two she has wear out from rotation.
NOT GOING TO HAPPEN…WE WOULD NEVER ALLOW IT. NEVER……
Germany under Hitler and his cabal had “gun control” along with health care. The Democratic fascist party would like to use that model with this female vampire, Kamala the autistic dysfunctional.
Some people will vote for her (Harris) because she is a democrat. Some people will vote for her, including some republicans, because she is a woman. Some people will vote for her, including some republicans, because she is a woman of color. And some people will vote for her, including some republicans, because she is not former president Trump. Voting for her because she is a woman and woman of color is just as sexist and racist as not voting for her because she is a woman and a woman of color. Given that there are millions of “new” Americans” (illegal aliens) that will likely vote (illegally) and voting democrat, along with the support of corporations and Hollywood ($$$$$$$), and a favorite of most of the media, she could be this Country’s next president. Hard to believe that just months ago the media, corporate America, and Hollywood wanted Biden to dump her and select a different running mate. What happened there? I think we are screwed.
Kameltoe is NOT A SUPPORTER OF GUN RIGHTS it’s to bad her mother was not a big supporter of ABORTION RIGHTS!!!
but but but, she’s a gun owner
Kamala you lost! Trump/Vance 2024!
Like the old saying, she lie’s like a matress. Kyle L.
As much of a chance reaching that goal as taking part in a snowball fight in Hell.
I believe the Democrats have a plan to put super high taxes on guns ammo and clips to make it extremely expensive to buy a gun
oh but i’m sure she will let the illegals keep their guns. she is a smacked a s
Dont be fooled by empty campaign promises from Kamala. Pay attention to what she has supported before she fell into running for the Presidency. The rest is empty talk, and would be denied when push comes to shove. Remember she’s just a ‘figurehead’ and she won’t be making any unassisted decisions!