{"id":103542,"date":"2024-08-10T10:28:29","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T15:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=103542"},"modified":"2024-08-10T10:28:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T15:28:29","slug":"103542","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=103542","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Kamala Harris And Tim Walz Really Don\u2019t Like The Second Amendment<\/a><\/p>\n

The first ten amendments to our Constitution are known as the \u201cBill of Rights\u201d for a reason \u2014 within it are denoted numerous \u201crights\u201d that belong to individuals and which are guaranteed as such against government limitation. Any American elected official who fails to grasp this foundational principle, or who understands it but refuses to accept it, is undeserving of holding public office. Take, for example, Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n

Our current vice president, the Democrat Party nominee for president, is on record positing that one of those fundamental individual liberties expressly guaranteed against government intrusion, does not actually protect an\u00a0individual right\u00a0<\/i>after all. So much for the clear language and history underpinning the Bill of Rights.<\/p>\n

Not surprising, the context in which Harris has taken such a posture openly antithetical to the very principle on which the Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791 is the Second Amendment guaranteeing the right to keep and bear arms. She proudly lent her name as the then-district attorney for San Francisco, to a\u00a0legal brief<\/a>\u00a0opposing what turned out to be the seminal 2008\u00a0Heller\u00a0<\/i>decision<\/a>\u00a0that declared expressly that the Second Amendment does in fact protect an individual right to possess a firearm.<\/p>\n

Harris\u2019 stance set forth in that legal brief tells us all we need to know about her disdain for the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n

In the years since\u00a0Heller<\/i>, Harris has continued to support all manner of government\u00a0restrictions on possession of firearms<\/a>\u00a0by law-abiding citizens, including among other measures, confiscatory bans on the country\u2019s most popular rifle the AR-15, lauding Australia\u2019s draconian gun confiscation program and most recently, criticizing the Supreme Court\u2019s\u00a0Cargill\u00a0<\/i>decision<\/a> in June that stopped the ATF from arbitrarily declaring \u201cbump stocks\u201d to be \u201cmachine guns\u201d under federal law.<\/p>\n

The choice of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate is further hard evidence of where the current vice president stands with regard to the rights supposed to be guaranteed under the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n

As governor of the North Star State, Walz has supported and signed legislation expanding so-called \u201cred flag\u201d laws and background checks for gun purchases that go beyond those already mandated under federal law. It was a quite different story during Walz\u2019s tenure in the U. S. House of Representatives from 2007 to 2019, however, when he needed and avidly sought the support of the NRA.<\/p>\n

In the language\u00a0du jure<\/i>\u00a0for what previously was known quite accurately as \u201cflip-flopping,\u201d\u00a0Walz now declares<\/a> his views have \u201cevolved\u201d such that he criticizes the NRA by name, and declares he is proud to be the recipient of an \u201cF\u201d rating from the Association that supported him previously. He has made a show of donating to charity a sum of money equal to that which he happily received from the NRA while a congressman.<\/p>\n

And oh, how his positions have \u201cevolved.\u201d For example, that most popular rifle in the country among law-abiding citizens \u2013 the AR-15 \u2014 now is considered by Walz\u00a0a \u201cweapon of war\u201d<\/a>\u00a0that must be banned.<\/p>\n

As with many latecomers to the gun control movement, Walz considers his anti-Second Amendment views appropriately constitutional because, well, they help \u201ckeep our kids safe.\u201d Lost in his probably cursory study of the historical underpinnings of the Second Amendment, and even as reflected in recent Supreme Court decisions (most notably the 2022\u00a0Bruen\u00a0<\/i>decision<\/a>), is the fact that \u201ckeeping kids safe\u201d is nowhere to be found even impliedly in any writings by our Founders justifying the Second Amendment (or elsewhere in the Bill of Rights for that matter).<\/p>\n

To Walz, as to his gun control colleagues in Washington, including Kamala Harris, \u201ccommon sense\u201d equates seamlessly to \u201cconstitutional.\u201d<\/p>\n

It will be interesting to see how Harris\u2019 and Walz\u2019s extreme anti-Second Amendment views will resonate nationally with voters who do not live in the states they have represented in public office (California and Minnesota), particularly considering that\u00a0private ownership of handguns for self-defense<\/a>\u00a0continues to rise across the country, especially among women and Black Americans. Hopefully a majority of votes tallied after the polls close Nov. 5th\u00a0will reject the views of the Democrat Party\u2019s national ticket that the Bill of Rights can be casually discarded based on their vague notion of \u201ccommon sense.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bob Barr currently is President of the NRA.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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