As bad as the Democratic Party platform statement on “protecting communities and tackling the scourge of gun violence” is, it masks the party’s true intent: confiscation of privately owned firearms.
The party platform calls for:
• Universal background checks;
• Assault weapon” and standard-capacity magazine bans;
• Mandatory safe-storage laws;
• Repeal of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act;
• A national red flag law;
• Increased funding for the ATF;
• Increased funding for the FBI, to conduct more background checks; and
• Increased funding for the CDC, “because the gun violence epidemic is a public health crisis.”
Harris Wants Buybacks
Kamala Harris has called for “mandatory buybacks” of AR-15s. Her recent recant to the New York Times — that she has “modified” her position and no longer wants buybacks — notwithstanding, her record, and that of her vice presidential nominee Tim Walz, affirms and confirms their ultimate goal is disarmament.
Last year, Joe Biden put Harris in charge of the new White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, which Biden said would “centralize, accelerate, and intensify our work to save more lives more quickly.” The office has no website. Its budget is unknown. Its staffing levels are opaque. It operates behind the scenes, without oversight. One of the only three staffers who are known has a long association with Barack Obama. Lee Williams of The Gun Writer said, “It became clear that the Office was an incubator and a clearinghouse for anti-gun policy that it pushes out to blue states.”
With additional funding, the ATF will ramp up its “knock and talks,” which are essentially warrantless home invasions that the agency laughingly refers to as “consensual encounters” — just like the “consensual encounter” that cost private citizen and gun owner Brian Malinowski his life when the ATF determined that he owned, bought, and sold too many firearms to suit the agency.
Harris’ long record of supporting policies antithetical to the Second Amendment is well known. Less well known are the policies of her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.
Anti-2A Tim Walz
Already outed as a liar regarding his military history, Walz is known best among Minnesotans as the one ordering citizens to stay indoors during the Covid epidemic. If officers encountered people violating his mandate, either on their porch or in their yard, Walz ordered them to shoot them with paint balls.
Walz has visited communist China dozens of times and has lauded policies of that dictatorship that would clearly violate the U.S. Constitution if instituted here.
Walz and Harris are the beneficiaries of $45 million promised from Everytown for Gun Safety in their quest to stay in power in November. As John Feinblatt, the group’s president, announced,
This election is a life-or-death moment for the clear majority of Americans who are demanding to live free from gun violence.
Everytown will go all out to help Vice President Harris and Governor Walz defeat Trump and Vance, whose ‘guns everywhere’ agenda is a dream come true for extremists and criminals.
Earlier this year, Walz was named “State Level Gun Sense Lawmaker of the Year” at Everytown’s Gun Sense University. He has signed legislation prohibiting firearm modification devices, to collect gun crime data, to institute universal background checks in his state, and a red flag law. He supports “no fly, no buy” legislation, and has cast a “no” vote against concealed-carry reciprocity.
Socialists Want Disarmament
It’s useful and instructive to remember history. As Larry Keane, writing for the National Shooting Sports Foundation, noted:
Socialist movements are notorious for disarming their populace. Nazi Germany, Cuba’s Fidel Castro, Venezuela’s Dictator Hugo Chavez, along with Communist countries like the former Soviet Union, the Chinese Community Party, North Korea all pursued policies of disarming their people.
They started as calls for “security.” They ended as human rights atrocities.
Be warned: Total civilian disarmament has always been the goal of Marxists, regardless of what they might say at political rallies or what they declare in their political platforms.
