September 13th, 2024
The debate between President Donald J. Trump and newly installed Democratic nominee Kamala Harris has sent shockwaves through the internet and political media. With Kamala still having failed to conduct a single one-on-one interview or press conference throughout the duration of her campaign, and only releasing a policy page on her campaign website just the night before, voters were anxious to hear the Vice President’s relatively unknown policy proposals and her positions on key issues.
In terms of reception, the debate is unlikely to move the needle any which way. As per usual, Democrats are claiming their guy won, and Republicans are claiming their guy won. Interestingly enough, surveys of independent and undecided voters are heavily skewing in Trump’s favor, which is the primary goal of presidential candidates on the debate stage. Criticisms of Trump include accusations of apparent hostility and anger, while many perceived Kamala as dodging direct questions that most concerned voters.
Hosted on ABC, a top executive of which is long-time friends with Kamala and has donated to her political campaigns, the debate moderators acted with heavy degrees of bias against President Trump. In what many are describing as a 3-on-1 scenario, the moderators often sparred with Trump and “fact checked” many of his claims live. Undoubtedly, Kamala was not faced with the same degree of scrutiny, despite the fact that she espoused numerous widely debunked claims and complete flip-flops on some of her previous policy positions.
Perhaps most egregiously, Kamala refused to address her previous positions on firearms, which include imposing Australia-style mandatory buybacks, a kinder term for confiscation, on the American people.
During the debate, President Trump, rightly, stated that Kamala “wants to confiscate your guns.” In deflective response, she admonished Trump for “lying” about her position, stating that she herself, along with her running mate, Tim Walz, are “both gun owners, we’re not taking anyone’s guns away.” Now, in a just society with a competent, respectable, and unbiased media apparatus, Kamala would have been immediately challenged on this statement and asked to explain the near-countless instances of her public support for gun confiscation. Unfortunately, our nation, and the legacy media complex therein, are about the furthest thing from such an ideal.
Texas Gun Rights has extensively covered Kamala Harris’ tyrannical positions on gun control, and it will be done here once more with a surplus of examples.
Beginning in the immediate present, Kamala’s newly released policy manifesto expresses support for banning so-called “assault weapons,” an ambiguous and commonly undefined term encompassing essentially all semi-automatic weapons. On the campaign trail, Kamala mentions during each rally that she will enact an assault weapons ban if she assumes power. While the direct term “confiscation,” is not explicitly used, inherent with the action of banning something is its forcible removal from society. Whenever leftists mention banning any type of firearm, be assured that confiscations are an implicit fundamental to such a plan.
Prior to running for president in 2024, Kamala was more comfortably open about her true positions on gun ownership. While discussing her plans for an assault weapons ban with radical anti-2nd Amendment group March for Our Lives on MSNBC, she was asked what she would do about the millions of so-called assault weapons already in circulation. “There are approximately 5 million to your point, Craig, we HAVE to have a buyback program, and I support a mandatory buyback program,” the now-presidential candidate proudly proclaimed.
In her initial run for the presidency in 2020, Kamala is quoted as saying, “I support buybacks and it’s something that I am so passionate about and so looking forward to being president to address.” When questioned on exactly “how mandatory,” her buyback program would be, she responded with “it is mandatory.”
While appearing on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Kamala doubled down on “dealing with the over 2 million assault weapons that are currently in the streets of America.” She goes on to state that a mandatory gun buyback program is a “good idea.” Furthermore, Kamala has repeatedly praised the country of Australia for their implementation of mandatory gun buybacks, which was implemented in 1996 and entailed the mass confiscation and seizure of hundreds of thousands of firearms from law abiding citizens.
Most horrifically, Kamala has consistently boasted her willingness to supersede Constitutional legislative procedure and take dictatorial executive action to ban and confiscate guns from the American people. She frequently claims that, if elected, she would give congress exactly 100 days to act before taking matters into her own hands and signing an executive order to mandate her totalitarian policy proposals. Even then-presidential nominee Joe Biden called out Kamala for the inherent unconstitutionality of such a plan during the Democratic Primary debates in 2020. “You can’t do it by executive order any more than Trump can do things when he says he can do it by executive order,” Joe Biden stated. In a response that was followed by unmitigated cackling, Kamala said simply to her future boss, “Hey Joe, instead of saying ‘no we can’t’ let’s say ‘yes we can.’”
Compiling a comprehensive list including each example of Kamala Harris publicly espousing her support for mandatory gun confiscation is simply an impossible task due to the overwhelming surplus of cases. Despite the fact that the Vice President essentially built her 2020 presidential campaign on gun confiscation, ABC moderators felt it unnecessary to correct or even challenge her on these outrageously unconstitutional statements. Ideally, the American people will be capable of seeing through Kamala’s many lies and obfuscations and come to the understanding that she would be the most totalitarian, dictatorial, and tyrannical president the United States has ever seen, if elected.
The most important takeaways from the debate are the following: Kamala Harris is more than comfortable lying through her teeth to the American people, and the mainstream media apparatus is more than happy to cover for her every step of the way. If she is elected, she will work to strip the American people of their constitutional liberties starting on day one. There has never been a greater threat to the people’s ability to protect and defend themselves than Kamala Harris and her loyal cronies in the media.
Kamala’s refusal to address her past beliefs and her assurance that she “isn’t coming after anyone’s guns,” is less of a flip-flop and more of an obvious yet pragmatic attempt to appear more moderate and shift to the middle during the general election season. Fellow communist and gun grabber Bernie Sanders even attested to the following, while maintaining that Kamala is just as radical as ever. This is nothing new and a common practice among politicians of all kinds. Make no mistake though, she is still the same Kamala Harris that she’s always been.
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Article submitted to Texas Gun Rights by Blake Kresses
