By Dave Workman
Editor-in-Chief
A leading national grassroots gun rights organization on Wednesday issued a warning to American gun owners that Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumed Democrat presidential nominee, is worse on the Second Amendment than President Joe Biden, a career anti-gunner.
“If you think Joe Biden is bad on gun rights,” said Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, “Kamala Harris will prove to be worse.”
In the aftermath of Biden’s announced withdrawal from the race, Harris quickly rose to prominence as the likely nominee. Her declaration sparked a renewed interest in the race among Hollywood elites and from hundreds of thousands of donors, many who had never before supported a presidential campaign, according to published reports.
Harris has been a “ardent gun prohibitionist” for many years, since serving in the California Legislature, Gottlieb recalled.
When she first arrived at the U.S. Senate, she co-sponsored gun control legislation to ban so-called ‘assault weapons.’ When she ran for president in 2020, she called for a ‘mandatory buy-back’ program, which translates to compensated gun confiscation,” he recalled.
Last year, Biden named her to oversee the new White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, which Gottlieb called “a thinly-disguised, first-of-its-kind mini-bureaucracy established by this administration to generate restrictive gun control policies which are pushed in states controlled by Democrat administrations.”
“Hopefully,” Gottlieb said in a statement to the media, “she has been just as ineffective and inefficient as the administration’s ‘gun czar’ as she was as Joe Biden’s ‘border czar.’ Even as she launched her campaign in Milwaukee, gun control was part of her agenda as she called for a ban on modern semiautomatic rifles and advocated for so-called ‘universal background checks,’ which translates to national gun registration, neither of which would prevent criminals from illegally obtaining firearms.”
She mentioned gun control as a top priority during her first campaign speech in Milwaukee Tuesday.
“We know Kamala Harris, like her boss and her Capitol Hill allies, is an anti-gun-rights extremist whose ultimate goal is to reduce the fundamental right protected by the Second Amendment to nothing more than a government-regulated privilege,” Gottlieb said. “She talks about how she believes in freedom, but evidently that belief suddenly evaporates when it comes to the freedom to own a gun and choose what kind of firearm you want to own.
“Joe Biden has been a 50-year bad dream,” he said. “Kamala Harris would be a nightmare.”
