This would be an “Incompetent Elected Official” post, except a) we already know Kamala Harris is incompetent, and b) her penchant for talking nonsense, gibberish or idiocy long ago reached Julie Principle proportions. But other Democrats, notably Hillary Clinton, have appealed to ignorance, emotion and hysteria by doing what Harris did yesterday as part of the wholly predictable Democratic Party/progressive/mainstream media attack on gun rights after a mass shooting tragedy. This one, as you probably know already, was in Maine, and unusually deadly, so the gun-grabbing fanatics and the “Do something!” crazies were really licking their chops.
On stage with Australia’s Prime Minister at an event yesterday, Harris blathered, “Gun violence has terrorized and traumatized so many of our communities in this country. And let us be clear, it does not have to be this way, as our friends in Australia have demonstrated.”
As usual, Harris required a translator. It doesn’t have to be “this way” in Australia? Have our communities been terrified there? How has Australia demonstrated what is possible or desirable in the United States? It hasn’t, of course: it hasn’t even demonstrated that it is possible to eliminate mass shootings in Australia, where the National Firearms Agreement of 1996 made semiautomatic weapons and shotguns illegal and mandated the confiscation of close to 650,000 firearms. The NFA requires Australians to wait 28 days before they purchase a gun to allow extensive background checks. Applicants must obtain a license and a permit, be over 18 years old, provide documentation that the weapon will be stored securely and complete firearms safety training. They must also provide a “justifiable reason” for owning the gun, and self-defense doesn’t qualify. A requirement less stringent than this was just struck down as unconstitutional in New York.
Australia, to state the obvious, doesn’t have an equivalent of the American Bill of Rights, nor the Second Amendment. Absent an impossible new amendment repealing the 2nd, the U.S. Government under a <gag> Harris Presidency couldn’t make citizens turn in their guns or wait 28 days for a permit no matter how much rhetoric and false statistics they devoted to the effort.
Does she know this? She is a lawyer, but with Harris, who can tell? Or is she just deceiving the usual gullible woke ignoramuses who think “do something” can include violating core American rights?
Either way, it’s nauseating, and telling as well. The 2023 version of Democrats, aka “aspiring totalitarians,” either don’t understand American culture (Pssst! It’s different from Australia!) or don’t respect it. In the U.S., the individual rights of law abiding and responsible Americans can’t be eliminated because crazy, criminal or irresponsible American abuse them.
Thus we don’t restrict freedom of speech because Kamala Harris makes a mockery of it with stunning regularity.
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The explanation for lefties who say these things is they are living in the world of John Lennon’s “Imagine.” All the world will live as one as soon as the Republicans go away. Then the Constitution can be amended to outlaw guns and legalize abortion and do away with the border and nationalize the economy. She genuinely believes these sorts of things. And she’ll be one of the people in charge.
Australia?
To their credit, the Land Down Undah‘s Sky News Australia was the 1st (IMO) sane google-search result (WELL down in the rotation) for Harris’ recent…um…LEARNED EXPLANATION of AI.
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Oz is a funny, funny place. Everyone seems fabulously wealthy and marginally sophisticated and they don’t any of them seem to work very hard, or have any desire to do so. I think it’s basically a coaling station for China. That and copper and gold from Tasmania. They and their banks seem to own the world wide copper mining industry, certainly Freeport Macmorran owns every going mine in Arizona. They’re very smug and self content and, of course, they rely on the U.S. to protect them from the Chinese, as we did them from the Japanese in WWII.
I would say definitely the latter. There seems to be an attitude on the left that the law is to be obeyed and pressed down upon others when it benefits their cause and worked around when it does not. There are many on the left that would love to see a mass confiscation of firearms here. Of course they don’t want to do it themselves, they want to send someone to do it for them.
I’m sure she’s read it, but interprets it differently. The same old stuff again and again: The Founding Fathers never meant it that way or – if they did – this is a different time, the Constitution is a living document meant to adapt to modernity, the Founders were old racist white men, etc.
They do this all the time. If their rhetoric wasn’t constantly along the lines of “Stuff we hate should be banned, but FREEDOM!”, they might get a little more sympathy and a little more cooperation from gun rights advocates.
Exactly, AM.
She and the rest of the left are just mad they weren’t allowed to lock down the whole country like Australia did during COVID.
Australia essentially closed its borders to incoming AND outgoing travel. It also banned travel between states. This made it difficult for people to return to Australia from abroad. Other people couldn’t return because of the 4,000 person/month limit on people entering the country for any reason. State-level parliaments were suspended. Protests were banned. Over half the country was quarantined, not allowed to leave their homes except for a specific hour during the day to exercise or go for food. They were not allowed to travel more than a mile from their homes (even for food) without special permission. If other countries hadn’t finally demanded an end to the restrictions in their own countries, Australia would still be under those. It would never end. That is the dream of Kamalah Harris, never ending total control.
The only reason that didn’t happen here was the vast amount of firearms ownership in this country. If you look at the severity of the lockdowns and restrictions in the country, it is almost the opposite of the ease of firearms ownership in the area. I was never locked down, I only had a state mask mandate and no in-person dining for a few months. Many schools stayed open the whole time. Compare that to California.
Oh, and yes, she has read it. However, laws don’t apply to Democratic politicians and bureaucrats. How many violated the law to spy on Trump, take money form foreign governments, acts as unregistered foreign agents, etc, and just walked with no punishment? I mean, we had a military officer eavesdrop on a conversation between the President and another Head of State and the guy leaked the contents of the talk and the got the president impeached for it! A military officer who bragged about being offered posts in the Ukrainian government was then heralded as a hero instead of court marital ed! Can you even count the number that have mishandled and leaked classified information without being charged? Can you?
Kamala Harris probably just forgot that she swore to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution”, as did the President. And that means defending it even when she personally doesn’t agree with it. She must stand up for things like the Second Amendment, she must side with the Second Amendment when arguments arise, she must help people understand the need for it, and do nothing to denigrate it, or any other part of the document.
VP Harris is terrible at her job.
What job would she be good at? I honestly have trouble envisioning one. Maybe a carnival knife-thrower’s assistant…
Your local CVS could hire her to increase business. They could have her stand outside, talk to people, and make them sick.
Other than that…?…well, you got me.
Unless I’m badly mistaken, the ONLY time a VP takes the “preserve, protect, & defend” oath is when being sworn in to replace an absent President. Otherwise, the VP takes the same oath that I swore 4 times as a military officer and that Representatives, Senators, and the like swear upon accepting their commissions. Only the President has that special duty under oath to the Constitution.
MB