Posted on September
22, 2024
Kamala's Got A Gun
So yours must be safe then, right?
by
Daniel
Clark
During her debate with Donald Trump, Vice President
Kamala Harris said, "Tim Walz and I are both gun owners. We're not taking anyone's guns away, so stop
lying about this stuff." So you can rest
assured that Harris and Walz won't confiscate your guns, because they own firearms
themselves. Stands to reason, doesn't
it?
Not
to the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein, it didn't.
The California Democrat once told 60 Minutes that she would favor
of a national ban on gun ownership if only there were enough votes in the
Senate to pass it. When her house had
been targeted by left-wing domestic terrorist bombers years earlier, however, Feinstein
wisely acquired a concealed carry permit, which in her state is not easy to do. In order to carry legally in California, the
county sheriff must be willing to certify that you are of good moral character
and that you have a compelling need.
Very few of these permits were being issued at the time that Feinstein received
hers. The fact that she was able to own
and carry a gun did not mean she supported the rights of others to do the same.
She wasn't the only one. In 1988, Pulitzer prize-winning columnist
Carl Rowan shot a teenager who was trespassing in his swimming pool. Rowan was arrested and tried for firing a gun
that he did not legally possess. Yet this
experience did not cause him to rethink his repeated calls for a "universal
federal ban" on handguns. He remained in
favor of laws that would disarm the American people. They just would not have applied to him, apparently.
Think that's brazen?
Sarah Brady once bought her son a rifle for Christmas. Yes, that Sarah Brady, wife of the
White House press secretary and one-time chairwoman of the activist group that
renamed itself the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. We knew about her gun purchase, amazingly
enough, because she wrote about it in her book.
"It seemed so incredibly strange: Sarah Brady, of all people, packing heat." Strange, indeed.
When former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg ran for
the 2020 Democrat presidential nomination, a man at a town hall event asked
him, "How do you justify pushing for more gun control when you have an armed
security detail that's likely equipped with the same firearms and magazines
that you seek to ban the common citizen from owning?" His response:
"Look, I probably get 40 or 50 threats every week, OK? And some of them are real. That just happens when you're the mayor of
New York City, or you're very wealthy, and if you're campaigning for president of
the United States." And if you're not a
politician and you're not very wealthy, you can lump it.
In
2012, celebrity anti-gun activist Rober De Niro told New York magazine, "It's
crazy how almost anyone can get access to a gun." Of course, he isn't just anyone. He's Robert De-freaking-Niro! He has a concealed carry permit in New York
similar to the one Sen. Feinstein had in California, which would have been
practically impossible for him to obtain if not for the don't-you-know-who-I-am
factor.
Liberalism is an ego-driven philosophy, whose
adherents don't see it as hypocritical to prohibit you from doing what they do,
for the simple reason that they're them and you're you. The fact that many prominent liberals own,
use and hire guns says absolutely nothing about your right to do the same. That's because they don't look at it as a
right. It's just another thing of theirs
that you cannot or should not also have.
There's no doubt that Bloomberg, De Niro and most of the others have very
good reasons to protect themselves with firearms, but they don't consider that
you might have an equally valid concern, and so what if you did?
Second Amendment supporters like to cite the quote in Shane,
that "a gun is as good or as bad as the man using it," but many advocates on
the other side would actually agree with that.
Their guns are good by virtue of being theirs. Yours are bad because you are not one of the
good people. You might even be one of
those unsavory Middle Americans they talk about, those bitter clingers, those
deplorables.
So, when Kamala Harris claims to own a gun, that says
nothing about whether she thinks you have a right to have one also. In fact, it's every bit as meaningless as
every other answer she has ever given.
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