Posted on 04/23/2019 10:07:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
One more item from CNN’s Night of a Thousand Presidential Candidates yesterday. Among her various “moderate” proposals, California Senator Kamala Harris (D) made sure to get in a pitch for gun control and what she planned to do about it if elected. The basic principles she was pushing for were nothing new among Democrats. More background checks, closing “loopholes” and bans on “assault rifles” were all on the table. But Harris offered a bit of a twist. She pledged that if Congress didn’t do anything about this in the first 100 days of her presidency, she’d take matters into her own hands and solve the matter via executive order. (NY Times)
Senator Kamala Harris of California, the former prosecutor who is running for the Democratic presidential nomination, on Monday committed to a host of executive actions to implement gun control measures that have long failed to pass in Congress.
At a town hall hosted by CNN, Ms. Harris said that, if elected, she would sign an executive order mandating background checks for customers of any firearms dealer who sells more than five guns a year. The executive actions would also include more strident regulation of gun manufacturers that could result in revoked licenses or prosecution, as well as an attempt to close the loophole that allows some domestic abusers to purchase guns if their victim is an unwedded partner.
“There are people in Washington, D.C., supposed leaders,” Ms. Harris said on CNN Monday evening, “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 was invoking the usual straw man that’s regularly kicked around by Democrats. You see, she’s not opposed to the Second Amendment. (Perish the thought!) And she’s not pushing for a bunch of “gun control.” She just wants to implement “reasonable gun safety laws.” (Using the phrase “gun safety” has become the latest code word for gun control or gun confiscation advocates who don’t want to scare off their potential voters.) And, of course, the second thing out of her mouth was the “assault rifle” ban.
As I said above, none of this is particularly unique among liberals. What’s different is the promise to enact such things via the phone and the pen. I thought that Democrats all agree that ruling by executive order is a bad thing, don’t they? (At least for the last two years anyway. They were pretty quiet when Barack Obama was doing it.) That’s certainly what they said about President Trump’s travel ban, border wall construction funding and nearly everything else he’s suggested.
It’s a pattern that’s been repeating for quite a while now. Everyone hates executive orders until their party takes power again. But if there’s any good news to come out of this, the minority response is already established and set in stone. As soon as a president picks up the pen for such a purpose, opponents file a lawsuit and get a judge to issue an injunction until the matter can be heard in court. If it’s a conservative president, they take the issue to San Francisco. If it’s a liberal president they’ll go look for a judge in Texas. And then we wait while the appeals process plays out.
Still, I wouldn’t put it past Harris or most of the Democratic 2020 hopefuls to try to implement a gun ban via executive order. It’s just one more reason that none of them should be allowed within sniffing distance of the Oval Office.
Its getting 1 second to midnight, to act proactively.
And the sane American people would react. Such a arrogant and foolish ‘president’ might be dead within hours of attempting such.
Its just the way things work under the US Constitution
How come Reagan got away with it in 86? People seem to forget that for some reason.
The Democrats have sure come a long ways from 1962 when Thomas J. Dodd and Emanuel Cellar “ONLY wanted to register handguns. Long guns will not be affected!”
Then they wanted to register all guns.
Then they only wanted to ban “Saturday night specials”.
Then they only wanted to ban ALL handguns.
Then they wanted to ban high-capacity handguns.
Revolvers suddenly weren’t so bad anymore.
Then they wanted to ban rifles that look like military rifles.
Then they wanted to ban .50 cal rifles.
And I haven’t even touched the small demands such as the ones to ban scopes on hunting rifles, or 5-shot bolt action army surplus rifles, or bans on bayonets. When, since 1900, was the last time someone was murdered with a fixed bayonet?
They just want to ban something then work on that to ban all firearms which has always been their goal.
Worst case - look at what Trump is doing to reshape the federal judiciary. Block EO by injunction ( we know how that game is played), then Scotia will declare it unconstitutional.
But it will never get to that point because she can’t win.
One day, there will be a 10 million Patriots ‘enough already’ march on DC.
Candidates like this insure it.
Why do you think the rats want to get rid of the Constitution? Because they hate it.
-PJ
Deuteronomy 28:43-45 New International Version (NIV)
43 The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower.44 They will lend to you, but you will not lend to them.They will be the head, but you will be the tail.
45 All these curses will come on you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the Lord your God and observe the commands and decrees he gave you.
next she’ll be pushing ‘Speech Control” via executive order
Yeh, those 1/2 pound triggers go off fast ! LOL...
The picture above was the last thing Willie Brown always saw before The Whore Kamala provided him with a place to set his open beer...
Wheredju get that description of the MUZZY tribe ? /sarc
Liberal legislate-from-the-bench “judges”
just itching for this to be EO’d from a Dem Prez that they will OK....
Looks like she is trying to guide something into her lie hole.
Anywho, Kamala, I don’t take orders from mattress climbing sluts, slut.
Yes it does.
[[43 The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower.]]
that i believe is also prophecy about the future- where countries will be undone by those living within- these prophecies, and the ones in Daniel about nebuchandnezzar talk about a foreign people who invade, and DO NOT assimilate- do not take on our cultural beliefs, do not support the nation they invade- they are the ones that rise up and dominate from within
Dems seem hell bent on allowing islam to invade this country and become a part of our government and laws- Instead of demanding that they assimilate- the dems pass laws encouraging them to not assimilate- protecting them and condemning anyone who opposes-
The writing is on the wall, the left are buying the lie that foreigners wish to live peacefully- We saw on 9/11 that no- many do not wish to live peacefully- many do not wish to assimilate- Even their religion compels them to smash- not assimilate- Dems are inviting our downfall as a sovereign nation with open arms- and they complain about trump being the enemy of America?
Redefine "sporting purposes" for shotguns, for example, to ban civilian ownership of tactical shotguns is under the purview of the Attorney General as the head of the BAFTE.
Blocking ammunition and long gun imports are another area that can be shut down by executive order through the Attorney General.
Redefining certain rifle ammunition as 'armor piercing handgun ammunition' is a third.
Issuing a whole slew of new regulations on FFLs such as reporting requirements is a fourth.
Reclassifying 'arm braces' as shoulder stocks is another, as is reclassifying binary triggers as 'machine guns' as was done by Trump with bump stocks.
Yes, there is a lot of gun control via executive order that can be done.
Silly deplorable, things like “knowledge of the law” aren’t important. Ms. Harris is feeding red tofu to her base.
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