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.”
Darren, thank you for the clean up!
She had a moment of clarity and told the truth. How many gun-banning leftists own guns? I would be most.
I’d rather vote for a person that can legally own a gun, than a convicted felon that can’t own a gun.
Fishstick, Harris just said today that,
“If anything, would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years?” one cohost of “The View” asked her
“There is not a thing that comes to mind,” was her reply.
So you would rather vote for another four years of failed Biden policies, failed Bidenomics, Bidenflation, another four years of war, possibly WWIII even nuclear war?
It has been my experience that Trump supporters are unable to accept verifiable truths and facts about Trump or themselves. I wish you luck in your battle against reality.
So present one of those actually verifiable truths ?
The great lies of the past decade have all been democrats.
So then why is the left and their lap dog media so afraid of an open hearing of affidavits and evidence that 2020 was corrupt? Do you not understand that the
MSM, FBI and 50 intelligence people interfered with the information and investigation showing the corruption of the Biden Family? That was enough to sway an election, let alone the other ballot harvesting and fraud!
Fish dip you can’t see the forest for the trees, it is not about Trump.
It has been my experience that Trump supporters are unable to accept verifiable truths and facts about Trump or themselves.
FishFeces, it is part of your experience that you eagerly mainlined your truths that the “Trump Russia Dossier” was true. As it was part of your experience to accept the verifiable truths and facts that the Biden Bribery Laptop was “just Russian election disinformation”.
And you hope to lecture us on your version of reality?
Upstate, I guess Harris would have done the same exact thing in Afghanistan. Please let the families of the dead 13 military personnel know about this.
Don’t forget the others that were horribly wounded and include quadruple amputees. Better let them know too!
Fishy means Hunter Biden, a felon who can’t own a gun.
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“Clean Up On Aisle Three”
Fishy “The Dissembler” doesn’t admit and reveal the truth, that all the corrupt communist (liberal, progressive, socialist, democrat, RINO, AINO) lawfare against Real President Donald J. Trump will be thrown out on appeal.
Trump is perfectly free to own a gun. He has not been convicted that does not occur until Merchan dismisses all challenges and then sentences.
Further the idiot allegations he faces would not deprive him of gun ownership.
FishFeces wrote: I’d rather vote for a person that can legally own a gun, than a convicted felon that can’t own a gun.
Personally, I don’t believe she owns any gun. But if she did, it looks like she committed the same felony as The First Felon Crackhead Son: lying on the background check form. And you’re just as happy to vote for an unindicted felon Harris as you were happy (before the insurrection that took him out) to vote for The Un-indicted Felon Bribery Biden.
FishFeces, Cackles Harris went on record bragging during a public interview that she smoked dope as part of her Jamaican heritage, or something else. Smoked dope while throwing young black Americans in jail for doing the same thing.
Users of illegal drugs are prohibited from legally purchasing firearms. Whether the user of illegal drugs is named The First Felon Crackhead Son, or Vice President Cackles Harris.
And Trump is only prohibited from owning a firearm as long as the police state fascist convictions avoid having to pass muster in an appeals court. While Harris and The First Felon Crackhead Son are banned for life.
Kamala Harris Got So High Smoking Weed in College She Thought She Was Listening To Snoop Dogg and Tupac
In an interview yesterday with the radio show The Breakfast Club, Harris admitted to smoking weed in college (“I did,” she said, laughing, “I just broke news!”) and that she listened to Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur while getting high.
Whoever found Obacala’s birth certificate might find her NRA membership card?
Oh, if only Trump had had the prog/left media championing for him from 2016 – 2020 instead of lethally targeting his every move perhaps more. Ouls have been done. The democrat prog/left is the greatest disease infecting this nation and if you cannot comprehend this perhaps you live in an alternate universe and would be happier removing yourself to that spot.
Here is Kamala literally confessing guilt for every single Biden failure:
https://x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1843671661943624014
When politicians reinvent themselves I can never be certain of what to expect from them. It’s actually a very worrisome thing.
I bet that handgun and the range she went shooting are the same place as the McDonalds she once worked at in her youth. Same place I was an All Star Baseball player getting nominated for the Hall of Fame.
I totally believe she has the hand strength to rack the slide on a Glock…
* Kamala’s way of telling her constituents to gun up. I’m losing and we’ll need to shoot our way out.
Have a lovely day everyone.
Are eggs and peppers an omlette? – the government cracked gun law case:
https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2024/10/08/justice-alito-wrecks-atfs-ghost-gun-argument-are-eggs-peppers-omelet/
* The proof is in the omlette.
Some revealing comments by the Teamsters Union president about the Dems:
https://x.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1843469824770576852
Biden saying there’s “no rational basis” to own 9mms makes the new Harris look . . . well . . . irrational.
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Honestly, I seriously doubt ardent defenders of the 2nd amendment will be inspired to vote for Harris because she owns a handgun.
As Biden et al. are surrounded by massive firepower, far superior to 9mms.
“No rational basis” indeed.
OLLY,
That is the funny part about this whole thing. Based off her prior positions, what she has said and right now any sane, normal person is questioning her even owning a gun. Yet some how they got the bright idea that they could win votes if she suddenly declares she owns a Glock. Really? Someone thought that was a good idea?
Exactly. The Democratic party has spent at least the last 8 years successfully brainwashing a base to believe absolutely anything they tell them to believe. All in preparation for this final election. Men can be women, the border is secure, everything the opposition says is disinformation, inflation is transitory, the economy is solid, rioting is peaceful protest, Trump and anyone who supports him are the 4th Reich, etc. She’s obviously received the blessing to be installed at the top of the ticket by the Regime with one condition: Do not say or do anything that will snap the brain-washed masses out of their delusions.
If this election outcome was going to be decided by voters weighing policy positions, Trump would win all 58 states. 😉 Ironically, the biggest variable in this election will be the actual democratic process. How do I know? Because when the Democratic party tells people MAGA Republicans are going to destroy our democracy, that means the Democratic party will need to destroy it to prevent Trump from winning.
The Democratic party has spent at least the last 8 years successfully brainwashing a base to believe absolutely anything they tell them to believe.
Not so fast.
I’ve been at the university all day, partly visiting a research lab with graduate students and another faculty researcher, who have asked for my assistance when it comes to inflammatory pathways. I’m about to head home shortly. At one point I asked those gathered if anyone had family in Florida in the path of Hurricane Milton. Several said “yes”. Safe enough subject right at a university, right?
A faculty researcher, PhD, mid-40s, mentioned FEMA and that was my segue. I opened up how nothing Kamala says is true considering she lied about JB’s cognitive impairment. Fortuitously the lab I am visiting is researching neurodegeneration, thus a ripe topic. In less than 2 minutes, everyone, all scientists, were ripping apart Joseph Biden, the Federal Government, Kamala and Democrats lying. No one mentioned Republicans nor Trump, but clearly everyone thought the DNC/Kamala is a laughing stock. Will they vote for them? I didn’t ask. Sometimes it’s best to plant seeds and walk away, just like our Lord did 2000 years ago.
You build a civilization by converting hearts one person at a time. All of us need to be converting hearts one person at a time in person/vivo. And that means interacting with people mano a mano, but this is especially true for retirees who spend a significant poirtion of their time on-line kvetching.
Lead!
Andiamo (let’s go)
Estovir,
Not so fast? Lead!? Do you believe you’re the only person interacting with people in person/vivo?
What else ya got? What part of my comment do I have wrong?
* Estovir is Mano with the cojones..
Hand with balls?
What’s that, a birth defect?
Olly, you said nothing wrong. Our brainwashed Democrats have an inertia problem preventing a change in mindset. That is enough to beat any candidate, but Trump is superb at breaking through, so Trump should win all 56 states (s), where the loss can only come from Democrats cheating.
Democrats are desperate, as are those funding and pulling Kamala’s strings, 80% of whom, according to Musk, are on Epstein’s list, a sure destroyer of one’s image.
We need to build a big tent, not a smaller one, as advocated by those who attack their brothers. There is arrogance among those who continue that attack, which is related to idolatry.
Thank you SM.
Was she lying then, or is she lying now? With Joe Biden as her mentor, the obvious answer is “both”.
Demorats campaign as moderates but govern as left-liberals. Republicans campaign as conservatives but govern as moderates.
No one – Republican, Democrat, or Independent, believes Harris owns a Glock. And her making the claim in the campaign trail is worthy of an SNL skit.
It should also be worth a visit from ATF.
Walz appointed a man to be in charge of ethnic studies for K-12 students in Minnesota. His name is Brian Lozenski. This is just one of the things he had to say.
“The first tenet of critical race theory is that the United States as constructed is irreversibly racist. So if the nation-state as constructed is irreversibly racist, then it must be done with, it must be overthrown, right. And so we can’t be like, “Oh no, critical race theory is just about telling our stories and divers[ity].” It’s not about that. It’s about overthrow. It’s insurgent. And we, we need to be, I think, more honest with that. … You can’t be a critical race theorist and be pro-U.S. Okay, it is an anti-state theory that says, The United States needs to be deconstructed, period.”
Thank you for your leadership and patriotism Mr. Walz.
* great post
Any intruder would be stopped by the Secret Service agents assigned to protect the VP.
She is trying to imply if she were a regular citizen, an intruder broke into her home, she would shoot them. She is trying to sound like a bad a$$.
Epic fail.
David – True. Trotting out this “I own a gun” line smacks of panic.
* it’s absurd . Owning a gun and shooting an intruder are very different things. The intruder would disarm her. It’s not so easy to hit a moving target with a handgun. Just ridiculous…
A bit off-topic I must confess, but my software indicates an attempt by this website to perform 23 tracking attempts (that were blocked) in the past 7 days. Why is this website attempting to place tracking cookies on readers’ computers?
Jajuan62,
I noticed that too. I think it is a Word Press, JetPack upgrade.
Great expose on the Chameleon. While attempting to re-brand, she makes no attempt to clarify nor denounce past political policies that are contrary to her newly-identified policies. A life’s history erased and reimagined in less than 2 months… Of course, when legitimate questions are asked about the difference between past and present, her reality is explained in an elongated, nonsensical word-salad that is readily consumed by fellow grazers.