By Lee Williams
SAF Investigative Journalism Project
Tim Walz is citing weapons he never carried in wars he never fought to justify his radical anti-gun policies.
Walz wants universal background checks, government sponsored anti-gun research, Red Flag laws, an end to concealed-carry reciprocity and the confiscation of ARs, which he calls “weapons of war.”
“I spent 25 years in the Army, and I hunt … I’ve been voting for common sense legislation that protects the Second Amendment, but we can do background checks. We can do CDC research. We can make sure we don’t have reciprocal carry among states, and we can make sure that those weapons of war, that I carried in war, is the only place where those weapons are at,” said during a 2018 speech that was posted this week on social media by the Harris-Walz campaign.
Kamala Harris has no gun-control policies – or policies of any kind – currently listed on her campaign website, but she plays an integral role in Joe Biden’s war on guns and gun rights. In the past, she has called for mandatory buybacks of “assault weapons.” This is nothing more than political-speak for forced confiscation of private property by armed agents of the government, which violates the Second, Fourth, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments.
The Harris-Walz campaign’s radical anti-gun views have drawn praise and support from other likeminded radicals, especially David Hogg.
Hogg’s anti-gun apparatus is already sending text messages to millions of young people fundraising for Harris and Walz:
Hi, I’m David Hogg, co-founder of March for Our Lives and Leaders We Deserve.
The work to mobilize young people across the country to support Vice President Harris and Governor Tim Walz is happening right now — not in September or October.
Young voters’ excitement across the internet and in battleground states is palpable, but we must turn this enthusiasm into votes. That means supporting folks on the ground doing the work to highlight the contrast between their hopeful vision for the future, and Trump’s agenda that would take us backward.
I’m determined to do everything I can to ensure Kamala and Tim are elected in November — and I’m asking you to join me
They’re going to need every single one of us to rise to the challenge. Will you rush a $20 donation to Kamala and Tim’s campaign right now and be part of this historic moment?
https://m.kamalaharris.com/3c0chhi0
Together, we can make a difference.
Stop2Quit
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The hyperlink whisks potential donors straight to ActBlue, which claims it has raised more than $14 billion since 2004 for “Democratic candidates & progressive causes across the country.”
Deserving leaders PAC
Hogg described his Leaders We Deserve PAC as “a grassroots organization dedicated to electing young progressives to Congress and State Legislatures across the country to help defeat the far-right agenda and advance a progressive vision for the future.”
“Young Progressive candidates face systemic barriers. At every level of government, the average politician is older than the average American. Our political system is stacked against young people – in favor of those who are older, wealthier and white,” his website states.
Hogg claimed his PAC will “identify and endorse young, dynamic, diverse, exceptional progressive candidates who are 30 years old and under for State Legislature, and 35 years old and under for Congress.
Hogg does not say how Kamala Harris, 59, or Tim Walz, 60, could be described as youthful, audacious or charismatic.
Leaders We Deserve has posted only two times on its Twitter/X account since it joined the site in July 2023. Its Facebook page has 6,500 followers, but it too has only two posts.
Its 60-person advisory board is made up of committed anti-gun Democrats, including Senator Chris Murphy, Representatives Jamie Raskin, Ayanna Pressley, Rosa DeLauro, Jamaal Bowman and Eric Swalwell. Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teacher, former Washington D.C. police officer Michael Fanone, actress Alyssa Milano, Gail Schwartz, chair of Ban Assault Weapons Now, Ashley Lantz, executive director of Brady PAC, and Kate Moore, political director of Giffords also serve on the board.
Like his texts, the Leaders We Deserve donation page routes donors to ActBlue. It has no presence on Guidestar or other nonprofit navigators.
Hogg’s better-known nonprofit, March for Our Lives, was incorporated in 2018 and has more than $1.3 million in assets, according to Guidestar.
“Born out of a tragic school shooting, March for Our Lives is a courageous youth-led movement dedicated to promoting civic engagement, education, and direct action by youth to eliminate the epidemic of gun violence,” the site claims.
According to its 2022 IRS form 990, Hogg received an annual salary of $56,974 for a 10-hour workweek. The nonprofits executive director, Lamia El-Sadek, received $62,074 for a 40-hour workweek.
Clearly, Hogg’s claims that he will help elect “young, dynamic, diverse” candidates are bunk. He supports gun-grabbers regardless of their age. Harris and Walz are using him to target young people. They want their money.
Joe Biden may have been the most anti-gun president in the history of the country but based upon their radical policies and access to funds, Harris and Walz would be far worse.
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