One Kamala Harris Decision Second Amendment Supporters Should Back

CA Gun Banner Kamala Harris
CA Gun Banner Kamala Harris

California/United States – -(AmmoLand.com)- When we discuss the track record of Senator Kamala Harris on Second Amendment issues, it comes down as pretty horrid. She’s really no better voting-wise than Dianne Feinstein, who famously declared that if she could have gotten 51 votes, she would have said “Mr. and Mrs. America, turn `em in.”

However, there is one decision related to firearms that Second Amendment supporters must back whole-heartedly and fiercely. She made the choice at one point to purchase a firearm for personal protection, and she has come under fire for making that choice. It is time for Second Amendment supporters to defend Kamala Harris.

I can hear the reactions to this now. One of them is very understandable: “Why should we defend her choice to own the firearm of her choosing when she seeks to deny it to us?” There will be calls to let her stew as she is attacked for her decision. While it would be easy to take joy in this and to just write it off as cannibalism among anti-Second Amendment extremists, that is the wrong thing to do.

Look, I am not pretending that some of her statements on our Second Amendment rights are not atrocious. She demonizes Second Amendment supporters, unlike Tulsi Gabbard. She’s demanded supposedly “sensible” gun control in the first 100 days of her presidency or she will take executive action. It is a track record of anti-Second Amendment extremism that is impossible to defend on any legal, moral, or ethical ground.

However, despite the slanders Kamala Harris has uttered against Second Amendment supporters, and despite her poor voting record, we need to defend her choice to own a firearm for personal protection. That defense should be vigorous and determined. We should do so, for reasons of principle. We’re not just fighting to preserve the Second Amendment for only those who have supported the NRA or who fight to preserve the Second Amendment. We are fighting to preserve it for everyone.

So, when we defend the right of Kamala Harris to buy the firearm of her choice for a lawful purpose – in this case, personal protection – we are defending it for everyone. Standing up for Kamala Harris in this instance is also standing up for the single mother who is working a late shift while she also tries to make ends meet while delivering pizzas (or doing some other job). It stands up for the homeowner looking for a gun to protect himself and those he cares about, whether it’s a pistol, shotgun, or AR-15.

Besides, while we have to defend Kamala Harris’s right to own the firearm of her choice, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be blind to practical effects of doing so. In one sense, our defense will also have a positive effect by causing more dissension among anti-Second Amendment extremists than there already is.

But there is an extremely slim chance for a different effect:

Taking a stand in support of Kamala Harris’s choice to exercise her Second Amendment rights might convince her to start re-thinking this issue, and at the very least moderate her tone towards Second Amendment supporters. It’s a long shot – the consistent defense is more likely to help sway the likes of a Tulsi Gabbard – but it is still worth pursuing.

Still, the primary reason to defend Kamala Harris against attacks for choosing to own a firearm is because that is the right thing to do. She may be an enemy of our rights, she may be exposing some hypocrisy on her part, but she still has Second Amendment rights, and we must defend them.


Harold Hu, chison

About Harold Hutchison

Writer Harold Hutchison has more than a dozen years of experience covering military affairs, international events, U.S. politics and Second Amendment issues. Harold was consulting senior editor at Soldier of Fortune magazine and is the author of the novel Strike Group Reagan. He has also written for the Daily Caller, National Review, Patriot Post, Strategypage.com, and other national websites.

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circle8

The communist leaning DEMOCRAPS all believe “gun control for thee but not for me”. This broad was nothing but a concubine for one of the worst politicians in Khalifornia history and then there is feinstein known throughout the state as the politician that funnels taxpayer money to various members of her family. Both are POS.

Wade

I don’t think she really owns a firearm for personal protection. I think she owns a firearm as a prop to pretend she’s discussing gun control from an informed position. She is just a scheming tyrant wannabe that has already advanced farther than she deserves. We owe her nothing.

Douglas Morris

Mz Harris may own a gun, in the minds eye of the Progressive Liberal. Due to the fact she’s better than YOU people. You people are too small minded and ignorant to own these destructive weapons. You people will do nothing but go out and kill babies with your evil penile representations. YOU people only need to call the police to protect you if you’ve a personal SHTF issue and they’ll jump to your defense. YOU people need to calm down and turn in ALL your guns once She is POTUS and Ruling as WE should be ruled.. cough, cough…..choking… Read more »

jean-marc evrard

As a pot smoker it was illegal in CA. for her to have a ccw let alone a gun, she almost certainly prosecuted and sent to jail many gun owners for the same crime, secondly, in the San Francisco bay area and most of the state, you will never get a ccw permit unless you are more special then the average citizen.

Charlie

I understand the premise for your comment. It doesn’t surprise me that she might own a firearm. Another example as “Do as I say, Not as I do.” She only thinks that she deserves the 2nd Amendment. I defend her right to legally buy a weapon, almost as much as I oppose her, and her political positions. Neither of which I will defend as vigorously as the Constitution of the United States, with my last breath!

Hotchkins

I’d like more information. Does she have a pistol? Does she have a CCP? How long has she had it?
I imagine that if we could find out how many of these anti-gun politicians actually own firearms, the country would be quite surprised. I’d love to have that info and publish it as has been done to New Yorkers who need to be registered to own a pistol.

Roy D.

I don’t know if she has a CCP; but, she has the mindset of the CCCP.

R Vincent Warde

Let’s remember that as a prosecutor, she qualifies for a CCW license – even in the People’s Republik of Kalifornia.

Charles Goff

Be very careful here…………….Socialist don’t change their Spots………………

R Vincent Warde

Actually rarely they do……. but this is not the point. We can gain a lot for the 2A cause by defending her, even if none of her positions change.

Jim Dowdell

About 25 years ago I attended a grass roots lobbying seminar in Ohio sponsored jointly by Gunowners of America and the Second Amendment Foundation. One of the lessons I learned that day has stuck with me like glue. “Never confuse your friends by getting in bed with your enemies.” Suggesting we Second Amendment advocates should come to Kamal’s aid is to me as repulsive as living in a nation where Hillary Clinton is president. Ughh!!

R Vincent Warde

Defending her right to own a firearm is far from getting in bed with her. I share your views on that.

tomcat

@R V Warde You didn’t have to mention that , it burns an image in my mind I don’t want there.

Wild Bill

@Tcat, OH MY GOD! I am blind! This calls for the whole bottle of Jack Daniels!

tomcat

@ Wild Bill You said it brother!

Scotty Gunn

She is a far left anti_trump liberal. She owns a gun, so I should support her? Stupidest logic I have seen in a while. Jane Fonda owns a gun, too. Should i support her?

Franks Guns & Gunsmithing

This GUY is out of his mind. Support her!!!!!! that is the worst thing to do. I am not sure of his thinking but he is WAAAAYYYY off.

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R Vincent Warde

Defending her right to own a firearm is far from getting in bed with her. I share your views on that.

R Vincent Warde

No one is talking about supporting her – we are talking about supporting her right to own a firearm. Which has two benefits for us:

1) It highlights the fact the the 2A protects a civil right that applies to everyone.
2) It highlights the fact that Democrats are so anti-2A that they consider exercising the right in any way disqualifying for a candidate.

It also neatly highlights her hypocrisy – and our consistency.

Wild Bill

@RVW, If “1)”, then can we just delete her name and insert the name of some palatable person? And as to “2)”, I’m fairly sure that democrats would not apply any disqualifiers to themselves.
Finally, to the DNC, hypocrisy is merely a word to hurl at their enemies.

Tex

Being anti-Trump makes her a patriot. Owning a gun makes her a 2nd Amendment patriot.

TMS Assoc

I have a question and it is not about the general subject of the article. Rather it is about one line which reads – “It stands up for the homeowner looking for a gun to protect himself and those he cares about, whether it’s a pistol, shotgun, or AR-15.” For what reason do you specify the “AR-16” rather than simply writing “rifle” as you have done with “pistol” and “shotgun” in generic terms? For one thing only the Armalite Rifle is an AR-15 and all the other manufacturers make clones of the AR but they have actual different designations for… Read more »

Wild Bill

@TMS, Ok, I’ll bite. To what end do you offer this granular quibble?

AggregatVier

Simple. Keep the idea, dump the candidate. We’re done.

Alan Chwick

Amen

DaveW

Make no mistake, Harris is anti-gun for the rest of us. That said, I have no complaint that she purchased a firearm or that she may have a permit to carry. I don’t even have a problem with Feinstein doing the same thing. That is not my complaint against such people. What I do have a problem with is these people seeking to prohibit the rest of us from doing likewise. That is elitism. This is a common problem with progressives. Plain and simple, if they are going to be armed, then they should just shut their mouths on the… Read more »

Daniel Ashley

I applaud her for making the choice to own a firearm, I also hope that she has taken classes and practices with it. I would hope that she realizes that everyone should also have the right to own what ever they feel would work for them in order to protect themselves and others, be it a hand gun, the modern sporting rifle or any other weapon that they feel comfortable with as long as they can legally do so.

Robert

So you think we should support heels up butt down naked on the bed harris?YOU PLUM CRAZY? I cant belive how redicilous the pists are becoming here.damm near as bad as listening to all demoncraps spewing new ignorat ideas

Bones4442

C’mon! Why not have a little sympathy for the far left, anti-gun, socialist loons… especially for the Democratic Presidential nomination? That would be the best thing that could happen to conservatives in 2020, BY FAR. I am thrilled Kamala and Bernie and Pocahontas are in this race. My main concern is that their party won’t nominate one of them! Trump would mop the floor with any of them and maybe with any of the current crop of nominee hopefuls…period! Have gun owners forgotten Rush’s Operation Chaos? Or are we gun owners really so naive as to think politics is strictly… Read more »

tom

Sorry Dude but u never defend the enemy. She is a suck ass just like the rest of the anti shit-heads

tomcat

There are a lot of complaints about Harold and his slant on different subjects. One thing you have to say is that he gets reader’s attention and makes people comment. That is why he keeps getting the articles published. By the way, if Heals Up Harris has a commiefornia permit does it reciprocate with other states? If not she should be locked up for carrying in DC or anyplace else she visits. Maybe someone should check on this technicality.

Graystone

A couple of simple questions for Ms. Harris.
1. Who mfg your handgun?
2. What is the caliber?
3. How many rds. does the magazine hold if it’s a pistol?
4. When does your carry permit expire?
5. When and where did your last training take place?
6. Will you turn in your handgun if elected along with the other gun owners?
Ms. Harris I believe that these are simple questions for you to answer and I look forward to your response.

Mr. Walkker

…and one final question Ms. Harris:” When you completed your FFL instructed ,Federal ATF form to purchase said handgun, did you in FACT disclose that you were not a Natural Born Citizen of the United States of America?.. as in the aledged false birthright of your Parents, whom are in fact Foreign Nationals”….? What a JOKE!

Get Out

I’ll support the anti-gunner KH dropping out of the presidential race. She like Feinstein owned firearms yet wants to disarm, restrict, ban firearms for everyone else!

Roy D.

This story isn’t about Kamala, it is about Harold. It isn’t about her allegedly being a firearm owner it is about Harold being a Cuck. I suspect this is not the first time he has been so labeled.

John Lewis

Your first two sentences nullified your argument. A “pretty horrid” 2nd voting record and “no better voting wise than Feinstein”. This lying skank will do anything to take our guns away. She’ll get to keep hers.

WV Bill

Just another example of do as I say not as I do. And I will age myself. How many remember Ted Kennedy’s bodyguard getting caught in Washington DC with a MACHINE GUN? Meanwhile he was doing everything in his power to take away my guns. Remember, it’s not the guns they really hate, it’s the masses ability to use the guns to hold politicians to account that they despise.

Mark

Kamala Harris doesn’t own a gun you dopes. She’s merely saying that to look more moderate such that her supporters will continue to back her anti 2nd Amendment agenda. In addition, this is a tactic used to gain support of “on the fence” non gun owners. “Oh, see she’s a gun owner so she knows about making gun control laws that are reasonable.” How dumb can the author of this article be? Yes, in theory she of course deserves to be able to carry a gun but her statement that she owns one is a lie and a political tactic.… Read more »

justjim

Many politicians take umbrage from the attacks on their anti-gun actions by claiming they are “gun owners”. That and the “guns for me and not for thee” thing mentioned so often make this a non-issue for me. Yes, she has the right. No, it doesn’t mean beans.

EdH

Why is Hutchinson’s article on this site?

Sam Ho

Defending evil is folly. Her personally owning a firearm will not change even as she takes our right to do so away. I think this author misunderstands the “for me but not thee” rule these people go by. How many antigun people have been caught with illegal guns?

Rattlerjake

And how many of them are ever prosecuted?

Bob

Writer Harold Hutchison, the author of this article appears to be enamored with Ms Harris. On more than one occasion the author has praised the merits of Kamala firearm strategy. If Mr Hutchinson really did research he would find that the senior senator from California, Diana Finestin had a CCW and carried a revolver while Mayor of San Francisco. Thus Ms Finestin must also be considered as an advocate of the Second Amendment?

No Mr Hutchison both given the choice will run you over with a tank like a peasant standing in red square in order to take your guns!

Luis

Paisan, you hit the hammerhead right on the shark. Just because Harris owns a gun, and feels the need to protect herself with it, is NO REASON WHATSOEVER (emphasis added) for the rest of us gun-owners to suddenly fall in line and support her. Consider: Sen. Charles Schumer has a concealed -carry permit issued him by New York City. You know how he’s tried to destroy our Second Amendment rights. Brady Center for Handgun Control founder Sarah Brady bought her nephew a rifle for Christmas, a few years ago. California pol Leland Yee, the vociferous anti-gun state senator, was boasting… Read more »

Luis

Errata:

…”anyone owning a gun”…

Quatermain

Amazing! I can now spot Harold Hutchinson articles by the headline alone. this guy is like having a built in anti gun Troll…

Samadams1776

Agreed! Civil War is most definitely coming and she will be one of those tried for treason and hanged and I will hopefully be there to watch that and if I am really lucky be on one of the militia tribunals that convinced her. I also have noticed some very strange Attitudes by this author. I don’t think this guy is all that clever and he certainly can’t see the Civil War that is coming that many you must do. There is a reason why over the last 35 or 40 years we’ve gone from somewhere around 30000 or 40,000… Read more »

Sam Ho

Hutchinson appears to have limited insight and cause and effect abilities.

JEFF

I can’t speak to the federal laws regarding elected officials, but in California Harris and her cronies are exempt from gun ownership laws and restrictions and ownership requirements.
Hypocrisy prevails in California………..

Kurt

Screw Kamala Harris. Oh, wait…

Sam Ho

No thank you. She got more mileage than my 1970s Mercedes diesel and yes I still drive it weekly. I prefer anew to low mileage woman and that is what I married

MourningDove28

Against the 1st amendment check! Ok, your just as corrupt as the politicians.

MockingBird

I strongly disagree with what you say.

Huapakechi

Just another example of the socialist “For me but NOT for thee” interpretation of Constitutional rights that is the democrat party.

Richard L Kemp

Kamala Harris is irrelevant she is a TRESSPASSER of her office she wars against the constitution of the United States of America she has violated her OATH of office PERJURY is treason and a felony under state and federal law. Kamala Harris votes do not count her authority and office is null and void as is any politicians authority who votes against and wars against the 2nd amendment. ,the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. It does not say that you have the right to keep and bear arms unless a traitor politician,judge,or… Read more »

samadams1776

That is why Kamala Harris and all the oath-breaking politicians and judges and any oath-breaking officials such as law enforcement or military will be arrested and tried for treason in the aftermath of the coming civil war. And they will all be hanged.

MockingBird

I will not support Kamala, Harold. Trusting her to defend the Second Amendment is about as safe, and sensible as trusting your life to a Hi-Point handgun, and your a idiot for wanting to support her. I say let her burn, let her get barraged by every comment by anyone, and everyone. I’d rather not have someone who wants to take away my guns with their guns, you follow? I hope so, I know it’s hard for you understand certain things. But it’s ok, I’ll dumb it down for you, Kamala bad!

Tionico

If a High Point handgun was the ONLY gun available to me, I WOULD without hesitation trust my life to its proper use. I can NEVER trust Kamelnose Harris da willie-ho at all, for anything. Her choice to get and own a handgun is hers, and I will defend the right of __________ to do so. But when she attacks the Second Article and all it implies, at every turn, and without mercy or letup, HIDING the fact she owns the very thing she says we mayn’t, then she is a lying two faced hypocrite and not to be trusted… Read more »

Ron

Hey Tionico, It’s Hi-point. And they make very good firearms.

Ron

Yep,you are correct Harold. Give credit where and when it’s due. A big deal should be made of this. And be brought up at her rally’s,gatherings etc. It should be worked to the 2nd’s advantage.

Mark Reynolds

I know a bit of this is off subject when it comes to the vaunted “Senator” from Commiefornia, however I still need to make the point about 2nd amendment “rights”. What is it with you people and the 2nd amendment “rights” BS? WE HAVE NO 2ND AMENDMENT RIGHTS. First off, no one has a “Constitutional right” or “2nd amendment right” to keep and bear arms. The CONSTITUTION was written to RESTRAIN government, NOT the people. You have a right that was given you at birth to defend your life by WHATEVER MEANS NECESSARY. Jefferson called it an UNalienable right. That… Read more »

Huapakechi

Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent

https://fee.org/articles/three-felonies-a-day-how-the-feds-target-the-innocent/

revjen45

Take the opportunity to throw it in her face as hypocrisy. She thinks it’s OK for her, not so much for us peons. It’s no surprise that the party of treason, sedition, and usurpation wants our guns.

DM

Politicians made themselves exempt from their own gun laws in California. She is not exercising her 2nd amendment rights, but instead thumbing her nose at the people of her own state. Typical phony liberal from the once great state of California.

james

KH is always ‘open to a discussion’, be it gun control, open borders, repatriations, citizenship for illegals, etc etc.

Tionico

Seems she was “open to discussion” on a regular basis with Willie Brown…..

MockingBird

This’ll be good for a laugh!

m.

don’t vote for cow-mala

kenneth cikanovich

Honestly dogs makes a very good but libertarian argument. In a perfect world I would typically agree with you, but as we have seen with Kamala and Bernie (the millionaire socialist). The left democratic candidates are cut from the same cloth, They believe in laws for thee but not for me. Wec should be calling her, Bernie and the rest on their hypocracy, demand they abide by the same laws that we must abide by. Then we throw our support behind candidates that practice what they preach. Candidates that have a ccw, and want you to have one and well,… Read more »

1776 Patriot

Who has a “may issue” permit in CommieFornia? Only the elites. Because, to paraphrase George Orwell, some pigs are more equal than others. She’s just one of the top pigs, feeding alone at government teat of privelege and wealth!

mikeL

@ 1776 Patriot. I have a ccw permit, and trust me, I ain’t elite. I’m a white hardworking barely making it constitutional conservative. I live in a county that has elected a sheriff that believes in the constitution and abides by it. We are one of the fortunate counties here in californicate. Harris bent over for mayor willie to get hers!

Gas Block in WA

GFY

1776 Patriot

Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Enlightened and “freedoms for me, not thee” self” interest is not a defensible or laudatory position. To help with her and the ass she rode in on!

Garth

While I think that Harold May have a point, I also think that we should point out the blatant hypocrisy in Harris having a gun but wanting to prevent anyone else from having one. Either she supports the right to keep and bear arms or she doesn’t. It’s apparent to me that she doesn’t unless you are one of the elite.

John Galt

feinstein has a permit too………spare me

Vince Brady

Has anyone seen the firearm or her practicing with it? I think it is a symphony scam just to get elected. Remember politicians lie!

Jack Young

Don’t trust any demoncrat , they lie.

Will Flatt

Harold is once again smoking crack and thinking that supporting the enemies of liberty will somehow change their minds on infringing our rights.

I won’t buy that even if I had all the money in the world.

Core

LOL. Easy now. Harold is young, he thinks having sympathy for your enemy is a good thing. Harold has not spent enough time on the battlefield. The anti-gun politicians are in violation of Article VI (Supreme Law) within the US Constitution. Harold: never be apologetic for your enemy, never. Their treasonous actions speak for themselves, they have sold out the US Constitution for wealth, power, and privilege. These politicians often have their own guns, and armed security: but it’s not acceptable for the rest of US.. She deserves nothing more than to be Defunded, Disbarred, and Discharged from Office for… Read more »