Vice President Kamala Harris is trying to reinvent herself as a pro-Second Amendment gun owner. In reality, her real view of guns shows just how authoritarian she truly is.
Along with touting herself as a career prosecutor, Harris has spent the last several weeks boasting that she is a gun owner. “This business about taking everyone’s guns away, Tim Walz and I are both gun owners,” Harris said during the debate. In an interview with celebrity endorser Oprah Winfrey, Harris said, “If somebody breaks into my house, they’re getting shot.”
If someone breaks into Harris’s house, they probably would be shot, but not by her. She has had Secret Service protection for the last four years, the kind of armed security that everyday people don’t get. And even if Harris is a gun owner, she openly supported gun confiscation when she ran in 2019 in the Democratic presidential primary.
That authoritarian impulse has always been part of Harris’s gun control worldview. During the 2020 primary, she boasted that as president, she would give Congress 100 days to pass the gun control legislation she wanted. If Congress refused, Harris said she would impose it by executive order. This is not some twisted interpretation of vague promises she made. She actually said it on national television. “Upon being elected, I will give Congress 100 days to get their act together and have the courage to pass reasonable gun safety laws, and if they fail to do it, then I will take executive action,” Harris said.
As is the constant question with Harris, was she lying in 2019 when she was trying to position herself as the most left-wing Democrat in the primary, or is she lying now when trying to portray herself as a centrist Democrat? You need only go back to her time as San Francisco’s district attorney, well before she had any idea she would be a presidential contender on the national stage, to get your answer.
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“We’re going to require responsible behaviors among everybody in the community, and 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 said in 2007 while talking about safe gun storage laws. Yes, in Harris’s view, she could send the police into your home whenever she wants just to make sure you are “conducting your affairs” with your gun in the way she demands.
Harris hasn’t magically changed the views she held for her entire political career. She is still the same anti-Second Amendment gun control enthusiast that she has been, guided by the same authoritarian impulse she has displayed on every other issue put in front of her.
This article was originally published at www.washingtonexaminer.com
