Kamala Harris on Gun Control

[mauserme]

https://news.yahoo.com/heres-where-kamala-harris-stands-212000023.html

 

 

 

Here's Where Kamala Harris Stands on Gun Control

Chelsey Sanchez

Wed, October 7, 2020, 4:20 PM CDT

 

When she was still vying for the Democratic presidential nomination, California senator Kamala Harris proposed a series of executive actions that would have made way for stricter gun control measures.

 

Now, as Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's running mate, where does she stand on the issue? Read on for a breakdown of the vice presidential hopeful's policy positions on gun control.

 

While campaigning for the presidential nomination, Harris said she would enact multiple executive orders on gun control.

 

Harris publicly committed to a host of executive actions that she would have undertaken if elected to the Oval Office, including mandating universal background checks, revoking the licenses of (and possibly prosecuting) gun manufacturers who break the law, closing a legal loophole in order to prevent those convicted of domestic violence from purchasing a firearm, and banning AR-15-style assault weapons from being imported into the country

 

“There are people in Washington, D.C., supposed leaders, who have failed to have the courage to reject a false choice which suggests you’re either in favor of the second amendment or you want to take everyone’s guns away,” Harris said at a town hall last year, per The New York Times. “We need reasonable gun safety laws in this country, starting with universal background checks and a renewal of the assault weapon ban, but they have failed to have the courage to act.”

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Harris’s platform on gun control has much in common with that of Biden, who has a record of favoring gun control.

 

Since Biden selected Harris as his running mate, the two have merged their platforms on the issue of gun control. Biden, too, has long touted his record as a successful adversary to the National Rifle Association.

 

In 1993, Biden (then a Delaware senator) was a key actor in the passing of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, which established our existing background check system. Then, the following year, he also helped enact legislation that restricted the sales of guns like the AK-47 rifle for 10 years.

 

Still, the Los Angeles Times reported that Biden was unsuccessful in previous endeavors to enact strict gun control measures. While he was serving as President Barack Obama’s vice president, for instance, he failed to rally enough support for tighter gun control restrictions following the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting. He also previously proposed universal background checks and new bans on semiautomatic rifles and magazines that contained more than 10 bullets, which also ultimately died in the Senate.

 

There is much overlap between Biden’s platform and Harris’s previous presidential campaign proposals. They both emphasize holding gun manufacturers accountable, enacting universal background checks, banning the manufacture and sale of semiautomatic rifles and higher-capacity magazines, prohibiting those convicted of domestic violence from buying guns, and reversing Trump’s “fugitive from justice” loophole.

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[WitchDoctor]

https://news.yahoo.com/heres-where-kamala-harris-stands-212000023.html

 

 

 

Here's Where Kamala Harris Stands on Gun Control

Chelsey Sanchez

Wed, October 7, 2020, 4:20 PM CDT

 

When she was still vying for the Democratic presidential nomination, California senator Kamala Harris proposed a series of executive actions that would have made way for stricter gun control measures.

 

Now, as Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's running mate, where does she stand on the issue? Read on for a breakdown of the vice presidential hopeful's policy positions on gun control.

 

While campaigning for the presidential nomination, Harris said she would enact multiple executive orders on gun control.

 

Harris publicly committed to a host of executive actions that she would have undertaken if elected to the Oval Office, including mandating universal background checks, revoking the licenses of (and possibly prosecuting) gun manufacturers who break the law, closing a legal loophole in order to prevent those convicted of domestic violence from purchasing a firearm, and banning AR-15-style assault weapons from being imported into the country

 

“There are people in Washington, D.C., supposed leaders, who have failed to have the courage to reject a false choice which suggests you’re either in favor of the second amendment or you want to take everyone’s guns away,” Harris said at a town hall last year, per The New York Times. “We need reasonable gun safety laws in this country, starting with universal background checks and a renewal of the assault weapon ban, but they have failed to have the courage to act.”

…

Harris’s platform on gun control has much in common with that of Biden, who has a record of favoring gun control.

 

Since Biden selected Harris as his running mate, the two have merged their platforms on the issue of gun control. Biden, too, has long touted his record as a successful adversary to the National Rifle Association.

 

In 1993, Biden (then a Delaware senator) was a key actor in the passing of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, which established our existing background check system. Then, the following year, he also helped enact legislation that restricted the sales of guns like the AK-47 rifle for 10 years.

 

Still, the Los Angeles Times reported that Biden was unsuccessful in previous endeavors to enact strict gun control measures. While he was serving as President Barack Obama’s vice president, for instance, he failed to rally enough support for tighter gun control restrictions following the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting. He also previously proposed universal background checks and new bans on semiautomatic rifles and magazines that contained more than 10 bullets, which also ultimately died in the Senate.

 

There is much overlap between Biden’s platform and Harris’s previous presidential campaign proposals. They both emphasize holding gun manufacturers accountable, enacting universal background checks, banning the manufacture and sale of semiautomatic rifles and higher-capacity magazines, prohibiting those convicted of domestic violence from buying guns, and reversing Trump’s “fugitive from justice” loophole.

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Thank you Mauserme!

[Bitter Clinger]

"Gun safety laws"

 

Democrat newspeak

[GTX63]

I was hoping Pence might have tossed a couple of snap pops her way during the debate just as she was about to speak.

[mrmagloo]

Not much to argue with there.

[Bitter Clinger]

You have to wonder how people like her even come into being, let alone infiltrate our political system on such a high level.

[fxdpntc]

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[vito]

Yet there are likely people on this Forum who will still cast their vote for Biden/Harris. Maybe because their desire to retain unrestricted abortion rights over rides all other issues. Or maybe they are union men and women who still, naively, think that the Democrat Party and only that Party wants what is good for working people. Or maybe they are among the millions that are so turned off by what they see as Trump's abrasive personality and manner that they convince themselves that despite everything, Biden seems like a "nice guy". And then there are the gun owners who delude themselves that since Biden/Harris have never directly said that they would come after their hunting rifles and shotguns, that none of the gun control stuff coming out of the Democrats will really affect them anyway. I find in difficult to comprehend how any gun owner can even consider voting Democrat for any Federal or national level office.

[Illini_Guns]

Got a friend that lives in New York he just bought 2 handguns and looking for a AR15 but he told me he was going to vote for biden because he didn't like Trump, I told him if he did he could kiss his guns good by, he said he didnt really care as everyone would have to give up there guns. All I could say was BAA BAA looks like your another Sheep heading to the slaughter

[GTX63]

"Everybody"?

Does he expect criminals to follow any gun forfeiture laws?

He doesn't care, so then he will stand in line with his firearms and hand them over to the government, leaving satisfied that we will now all coexist in a violence free world where the police will protect us.

[chislinger]

Got a friend that lives in New York he just bought 2 handguns and looking for a AR15 but he told me he was going to vote for biden because he didn't like Trump, I told him if he did he could kiss his guns good by, he said he didnt really care as everyone would have to give up there guns. All I could say was BAA BAA looks like your another Sheep heading to the slaughter

I can't even wrap my head around that kind of thinking...

[Kingcreek]

Got a friend that lives in New York he just bought 2 handguns and looking for a AR15 but he told me he was going to vote for biden because he didn't like Trump, I told him if he did he could kiss his guns good by, he said he didnt really care as everyone would have to give up there guns. All I could say was BAA BAA looks like your another Sheep heading to the slaughter

 

Voting on personality alone seems pretty shallow to me.

[Jeffrey]

 

Got a friend that lives in New York he just bought 2 handguns and looking for a AR15 but he told me he was going to vote for biden because he didn't like Trump, I told him if he did he could kiss his guns good by, he said he didnt really care as everyone would have to give up there guns. All I could say was BAA BAA looks like your another Sheep heading to the slaughter

Voting on personality alone seems pretty shallow to me.

 

I do my fair share of listening to the other side from Cnn, MSNBS, etc. Every single one of them clearly hate trump. Everything they report on is how mean he was to another party. They cannot argue his policies what so ever. They want to discuss the economy but fail to bring up how many businesses have been recently forced to close. There is nothing for them to run on besides Don is mean and Joe is here to save us all even though he didn't over the last 47 years..

[cybermgk]

"Everybody"?

Does he expect criminals to follow any gun forfeiture laws?

He doesn't care, so then he will stand in line with his firearms and hand them over to the government, leaving satisfied that we will now all coexist in a violence free world where the police will protect us.

Until the Dems he voted in defunds them, and he is at the whim of Socialist 'Community Policing".

[dumpnpump]

Why would an individual spend $2000-$3000 on new weaponry then vote for a candidate that promises to take it all away? The paper trail back to him will be the freshest this near to the election. His will be some of the first weapons confiscated. I have wanted to buy mother a new shotgun, but have refrained from doing so this near to the election. If we get Trump back, I may do so as I will have a better chance of obliterating the paper trail back to me in four years.

[lilguy]

My union, i’m retired, offers regularly scheduled CCW classes at our hall. They vociferously support the democratic party, top to bottom, every election. A more bipolar organization does not exist. The membership, for the most part, does not care. Its unsettling to say the least.