The Kamala Harris campaign has finally posted a lengthy platform on its website, just one day ahead of the vice president’s debate with former President Donald Trump, and no surprise here, there’s a gun control section straight out of Joe Biden’s 2020 agenda.
According to the text, “As President, she won’t stop fighting so that Americans have the freedom to live safe from gun violence in our schools, communities, and places of worship. She’ll ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, require universal background checks, and support red flag laws that keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people. She will also continue to invest in funding law enforcement, including the hiring and training of officers and people to support them, and will build upon proven gun violence prevention programs that have helped reduce violent crime throughout the country.”
Harris has been a gun control proponents since her days as a California legislator and that state’s attorney general. Indeed, she was the defendant in at least two gun rights lawsuits involving the Second Amendment Foundation and other gun rights groups.
Ironically, the Harris-Walz campaign notes elsewhere on the same platform, “Vice President Harris and Governor Walz believe many fundamental freedoms are at stake in this election.”
That is certainly true, so far as Second Amendment activists are concerned. American gun owners believe their right to keep and bear arms is definitely at stake on Nov. 5.
The Donald Trump campaign, meanwhile, says only this about the Second Amendment, and one might suggests this is all that needs to be said: “Defend our constitution, our bill of rights, and our fundamental freedoms, including freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the right to keep and bear arms.” What else needs to be said?
Trump has historically been the only president in recent memory who consistently mentioned the Second Amendment in his stump speeches. The conviction in a New York courtroom cost him his gun rights, but many believe this is going to be short-lived, as some observers expect the convictions to be overturned on appeal.
The Harris campaign will expand voting by mail and early voting, and focus on other rights. But the rights protected by the Second Amendment would undoubtedly be under the same intense attack they have been under Biden.
Harris’ camp is trying to tie Trump to the Project 2025 campaign, but the former president is trying equally hard to distance himself from the conservative effort. Project 2025 is the creation of the Heritage Foundation. According to CNN, Project 2025 involves scores of former Trump administration employees.
The debate Tuesday will allow voters to further compare where each candidate stands on issues.
