The reinvention of Vice President Kamala Harris in this election has been a thing to behold. In politics, candidates often reconstruct their records to secure votes, but Harris appears to have constructed an entirely mythical being. Once ranked to the left of socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders and viewed as among the most liberal members of the Senate, Harris has sought to convince the public that she is actually a frack-loving, gun-toting, border-defending moderate. This last week, Harris sounded like she has hired Neo as her new campaign manager from the Matrix. When asked “what do you need, besides a miracle?” Neo replied “Guns. Lots of Guns.”
Recently, that remake was on full display during a softball interview with Oprah, who has endorsed Harris. The Vice President declared that she is a gun owner and “if somebody breaks into my house, they’re getting shot.” She repeated the claim in a CBS Sixty Minutes interview and noted that she has fired the gun at a pistol range. The gun is reportedly a semiautomatic Glock handgun. Many Glocks are semiautomatics that use 9mm ammunition.
When CBS’s Bill Whitaker expressed shock at her gun-toting persona on the campaign trail, he asked if she actually fired it. Harris then did her best Rooster Cogburn, who noted “Well a gun that ain’t loaded, ain’t much good for nuthin.” Harris said that she has of course fired the gun in her trips to the firing range.
While she was referring to defending her home, Harris’s pledge to gun down intruders stands in stark contrast to her opposition to stand your ground laws.
When she was the San Fransisco District Attorney, Kamala Harris was one of the signatories on the District Attorneys’ amicus brief in District of Columbia v. Heller — in support the handgun ban. The Court rejected the position of Harris and her fellow Democratic DAs and held that there is an individual right to bear arms under the Second Amendment.
Harris’ true grit has delighted activists who are trying to lure male voters back to the Democratic Party. It may not be as thrilling to some in the Biden-Harris Administration including President Joe Biden.
As we have previously discussed, Biden and other Democrats have repeatedly denounced semiautomatics and some have suggested that, with a change in the Supreme Court, they might be banned. While the Administration has repeatedly called for a ban on AR-15s, the most popular weapon in America, President Biden has suggested in the past that he might seek to ban 9mm weapons.
In reference to guns that use 9mm ammunition, Biden declared “there’s simply no rational basis for it in terms of thinking about self-protection.”
It is a call that has been echoed in Canada where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that his government is introducing legislation to “implement a national freeze on handgun ownership.” He said Canadians would no longer be able “to buy, sell, transfer or import handguns anywhere in Canada,” adding that “there is no reason anyone in Canada should need guns in their everyday lives.”
While the White House subsequently tried to walk back his comments, Biden saying there’s “no rational basis” to own 9mms makes the new Harris look . . . well . . . irrational.
Both Biden and Harris have made sweeping, unsupportable statements about guns and constitutional protections. For example, despite being repeatedly corrected, President Biden continues to repeat the same false statements about bans on weapons when the Second Amendment was ratified.
Likewise, in support of the ban on AR-15s, Harris declared: “Do you know what an assault weapon is? It was designed for a specific purpose, to kill a lot of human beings quickly. An assault weapon is a weapon of war, with no place, no place in a civil society.”
Yet, courts likely would press a Harris administration on why it is seeking to ban this model when other higher-caliber weapons are sold. AR-15s can handle a variety of calibers. However, they are no more powerful than other semi-automatic rifles of the same caliber and actually have a lower caliber than some commonly sold weapons which use .30-06, .308 and .300 ammunition; many of these guns fire at the same — or near the same rate — as the AR-15. None of these weapons are classified as actual military “assault weapons,” and most civilians cannot own an automatic weapon.
As discussed earlier, President Biden showed the same disconnect as Harris between the factual and the rhetorical basis for some gun-control measures. He condemned “high-caliber weapons” like 9mm handguns and said “a .22-caliber bullet will lodge in the lung, and we can probably get it out — may be able to get it and save the life. A 9mm bullet blows the lung out of the body.”
Biden has not made any comment on Harris promising to blow away anyone coming into her house with her own Glock.
Yet, before condemning Harris for her implied threat to “blow lungs out of bodies,” Biden should again check both the constitutional and practical statements about handguns.
Gun experts mocked the notion that 9mm rounds blow organs out of bodies, but 9mm ammunition is the most popular handgun caliber in the U.S., with more than half of all handguns produced in 2019 using that round, according to Shooting Industry magazine. If Biden pushed a ban, he would target more than 40 percent of all pistols produced in the U.S., including many Glocks.
Again, in fairness to Harris, she is not the first politician to reinvent herself on the campaign trail. For now, Harris wants to be clear that “I have a Glock, and I’ve had it for quite some time.” For critics, the reload is a bit much given her record. Yet, in a close election, many activists want voters in states like Pennsylvania to know that Harris is the virtual Jed Clampett of the Beverly Hills set. Indeed, you get the impression that she would use her Glock to frack, if only she could.
While 9mm’s have been vilified by the Biden-Harris Administration, it just happens to be one of the most popular guns in the United States . . . and Harris wants people to know that she has one and knows how to use it.
As a politician reinventing herself in a higher-caliber image, she chose wisely. Indeed, other politicians may want to take heed and listen to Deputy Marshall Sam Gerard in U.S. Marshalls: “Get yourself a Glock, and get rid of the nickel-plated sissy-pistol.”
I would also add that the “Mainstream Media”, “Mainstream Cultural Media”, “Social Media”, and “The Mainstream Information Conglomerate” are all-in in supporting this reconstruction.
The mythical being of the current reconstructed Kamala Harris is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, intent on bamboozling and hoodwinking the American electorate to elect her as President. But like a wolf who sheds its sheep’s clothing when its prey is trapped, Kamala will revert to her left of socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders origins and reveal her true self. After all, as she herself has said, her “values have not changed”.
The American electorate should look to her past record to determine her true values and pay no attention to the sheep’s clothing that she is currently wearing. Otherwise, the American people will be her prey that is trapped.
It’s perfectly reasonable for Marxist-Dunceocrat Harris to lie to the American people and to pretend to be a moderate, rather than the radical Marxist she is. Lying to achieve ends is mandated by the IslamoCommuNazi Dunceocrat ideology. Moreover, since so many Americans are gullible, stupid, passive, and easily manipulated, Harris would be foolish not to lie repeatedly. She knows she has the media presstitutes watching her back, along with the LIEs (Leftist Indoctrination Entities, formerly called “educational” institutions) protecting her. They are all part of the same corrupt Marxist-Dunceocrat cult. And a stunning 50% of Americans not only like being lied to by their sacred Dunceocrat leaders, but they demand to be lied to as often as possible.
9mm is a medium caliber not a large caliber
it is often considered barely sufficient for personal protection in the home, and many say it is not powerful enough for home protection
So none of the people babbling in the biden admin have a clue
it is often considered barely sufficient for personal protection in the home, and many say it is not powerful enough for home protection
I wonder who this “many say” is that puke out those two particular claims?
Seems a fair question as the 9mm is increasingly becoming THE handgun caliber for the military and for police.
Not good enough for personal protection in the home – but good enough to carry into war?
9mm is not the caliber of choice
Bannon: “Anything of value in this country has not been handed to people; it has been fought for.”
COME AND TAKE IT.
I can fault Kamala for a lot of things but not having a Glock nor saying she has one. She’s smart enough to realize that on that account she’s normal. Still hope she loses.
Sal Sar
Kamala was a Soros prosecutor who abused her power. She ruined San Francisco.
Kamala bragged about the power she had with just the ‘swipe of her pen.’
Kamala was an Attorney General who abused her power. She ruined the state of California.
Do not let Kamala Harris ruin the entire country.
Just say no to Cackling Kamala. She is a pathetic fool, clearly out of her depth.
Vote Trump, America First. Save Democracy. Save America.
For the record — it is NOT a “close election.”
The polls are as fake as the news media.
Public polls are for two reasons: 1. Give plausible deniability to a Harris “win” when they steal it, and 2. Deceive the public into believing Kamala has support she DOES NOT have, and to demoralize Trump voters.
Private polls tell the campaigns what is really going on. Watch where the campaigns are going and what they are doing. Trump has booked Madison Square Garden for a campaign rally on October 27 to “make a play for New York.” Trump is also doing a rally in Coachella, California and another in Aurora, Colorado.
Meanwhile Kamala’s campaign is doing a bunch of fluffer nutter shows with some sex podcast, crued, rude nut job Howard Stern, and Propaganda Useful Idiot Colbert, etc. while campaigning hard only in swing states.
Why? Because polls show she is LOSING badly – everywhere.
Trump is also considering holding rallies in NJ and NM.
Would Trump’s campaign waste precious time and resources to do *any* of those rallies in Democrat strongholds if it was a “close race”? No.
Some analysts are predicting that Trump will win not only the EC, but also popular vote.
Again, where’s Kamala ‘campaigning’ (if you can call it that)? In swing states — hanging on for dear life.
“I’m not sure what the next contingency in the Deep State plan is, but based on their behavior, they have shifted gears.
It’s like they have accepted Trump will win, and are looking to the next phase.
Whether that be refusing the peaceful transition of power, obstructing Trump’s presidency, sowing chaos, initiating WW3, instigating civil war, terrorist attacks, false flag like January 6th, another Mueller-type situation to hamstring Trump, etc.
They know they cannot win. They have to improvise.” “@WarClandestine
Professor Turley: “For now, Harris wants to be clear that “I have a Glock, and I’ve had it for quite some time.” Indeed, you get the impression that she would use her Glock to frack, if only she could.
Professor, your friend Dennis is going to be outraged at you openly mocking his candidate, Harris.
I want to know why, as a lawyer, your column don’t comment on her illegally obtaining a handgun exactly like Hunter Biden did.
On account of Hunter is special…
Some folks are born made to wave the flag
Ooh, they’re red, white and blue
And when the band plays “Hail to the Chief”
Ooh, they point the cannon at you, Lord
It ain’t me, it ain’t me
I ain’t no senator’s son, son
It ain’t me, it ain’t me
I ain’t no fortunate one, no
Some folks are born silver spoon in hand
Lord, don’t they help themselves, no
But when the taxman come to the door
Lord, the house lookin’ like a rummage sale, yeah
It ain’t me, it ain’t me
I ain’t no millionaire’s son, no, no
It ain’t me, it ain’t me
I ain’t no fortunate one, no
Harris bragged she owned a Glock at the same time she claimed she’s now pro-fracking and will complete the Trump border wall. She’s just a normal American after all! What a relief!
But Harris also bragged about getting stoned throughout college and in her later social life, claiming it was part of her Jamaican heritage (her Jamaican father did NOT approve of that).
The anti-gun media doesn’t have a problem with learning about using illegal drugs and then buying a Glock after that?
After all, current gun prohibitions (that Harris and Biden have demanded be expanded) prohibit abusers of illegal drugs from purchasing or possessing firearms. That doesn’t just include Hunter Biden – that includes then Attorney General and now Vice President Harris.
If Harris got the Glock she swears she owns from a fellow Jamaican gang banger down in the ‘hood, she committed a firearms felony and is an Unindicted Felon like President Biden.
If Harris filed a false background check form to the FBI saying she wasn’t a user of illegal drugs, just as Hunter Biden did, once again Harris is an unindicted Felon like President Biden.
And then there’s California’s laws on which handguns you’re allowed to sell/own in that state, along with the legal process to go through to buy one of the approved handguns. As the former Attorney General, Harris must be extremely familiar with those state laws, as well as the federal laws to legally purchase a handgun.
Aren’t we assured that Democrats and the Democrat-Media Political Complex want to crack down on gun crimes?
Crickets? Anything other than BBBBBUUUUTTTTT…. MUCH TRUMP!!!! chirping?
Leftists and guns….ought to be mutually exclusive terms.
9mm is preferred because of its lower felt recoil than other far more powerful cartridges.
Thus facilitating better accuracy by the shooter.
The 9mm cartridge is also smaller, lighter, and thus provides less a logistical issue for transportation and carrying.
As to blowing a Lung out of the Body….pure fantasy on the part of the Gun Banners.
As to the teeny weeny .22 Caliber bullet…..it might stop in a Lung….but it ricochets inside a Cranium so there is that to be considered.
What the gun banners need to address is not the gun but the user….and get the illegal guns off the street and out of the hand of the mentally ill and start putting every Felon caught in possession of a gun back into prison for the full maximum sentence.
We got plenty of gun laws already….enforce them!
Go after the violent offenders not the innocent law abiding citizen.
Yes…I know….that is just pure dreaming as the Left shall never do that even when they become the victim.
Oh…sorry….Guns Harris disproves that notion but in the same breath wishes to prevent others from doing as she has….buy a gun and use it for their own self protection.
Just yet more hypocrisy from a Leftist!
Personally, I’ve been blown away by the number of hours she can actually stay vertical these days.
That puts me in mind of Bette Midler’s concert tours….when she’d be onstage and turn, in mid-song, and yell “Try to stay vertical, girls!” at the Harlettes, her slutty backup group. 🙂
I buy this like I would buy the Brooklyn Bridge. The levels of pandering by this party, not administration, but party – are flipping ridiculous. No one believes you, Kamala, and no, we are not going to change our minds and vote for your party. That is already written in stone. Pfft. The modern DNC is a joke. Her comments are a bonafide insult, she may as well have said, ‘deplorables’, even though many of us against her party are not conservatives. The collective assault on the part of the modern DNC on our intelligence, and the sheer levels of hubris, are something to behold. Go blow, DNC.
Sincerely,
An independent voter that used to vote for dems too, but will never again, as long as I live, and that’ll be awhile. Enjoy that, your money doesn’t flipping matter and people like me could give two sheets about the proclivities of Taylor Swift. 🙄
James….Amen. You expressed, perfectly, the sentiments of so many of us!
In support of the ban on AR-15s, Harris declared: “Do you know what an assault weapon is? It was designed for a specific purpose, to kill a lot of human beings quickly. An assault weapon is a weapon of war, with no place, no place in a civil society.
What a great opportunity for Dennis McIntyre to once again assure us that an AR-15 bullet will “totally destroy a human being” – just like it would totally destroy a deer if used for hunting.
And for Command Sergeant Major Tim Walz to remind us again he carried an AR-15 assault weapon while leading his troops in combat.
There’s a reason the Democrats invented the name “assault weapons” to describe semiautomatic rifles, a name the military that issues troops full automatic assault rifles doesn’t use.
The same as they invented the term “undocumented migrants” to replace the legal term “Illegal Aliens”
The same as they invented the term “reproductive health” to replace the centuries old term “abortion” to describe the elective birth control killing of an unborn child.
Old Airborne………….Yes, the Dems invented their own dictionary and insist that the rest of use it and march lockstep!
.Kammy Faye is supposed to have gone to law school, and yet she doesn’t know that the term “illegal alien(s)” is used 33 times in Federal immigration statute……also the term “illegal immigrants”. So if that’s offensive language, why doesn’t she work to change those terms in Fed law? Because she’s never read it, you can bet
Also, re: “Reproductive Healthcare”……..I call it “de-productive” because they’re not “producing” anything; in fact, it’s just the opposite. They’re “de-producing”, destroying.
And I wish the Dems would complete the phrase “A woman’s right to choose”. The right to choose what? Why not say it in full? OK, all together now:
“A woman’s right to choose to kill the developing child in her womb”.
There ya go.