By Tanya K Metaksa
Wake Up, America! Canada is showing us the future under gun-grabbing politicians.
During the 2024 Presidential election, Democrat Vice-President Kamala Harris, tried to camouflage her pre-2024 positions on the Second Amendment and gun laws she supported.
After she was elevated to the position of Democrat Presidential nominee by a stroke of Biden’s pen without one Democrat having cast a ballot for her, long-held anti-Second Amendment positions suddenly evaporated. The Wall St Journal reported that House Speaker Mike Johnson “said Biden’s decision to end his campaign invalidates the votes of 14 million Americans who voted for him in the Democratic primary.”
She announced she owned a Glock. She supported hunting and chose a gun owner and hunter, Gov. Tim Walz, as her running mate. She did what anti-gun politicians running for office have been doing for the last half-century: trying to don the costume of a gun owner. A tactic that was bound to fail. But her past caught up with her. As I wrote on October 29, 2024: “In her 2019 presidential campaign, Harris made headlines by proposing that she would use executive action if Congress did not pass gun safety legislation within her first 100 days as president. She emphasized universal background checks, a ban on assault weapons, and actions against gun dealers violating the law. She also criticized what she called the “false choice” between protecting the Second Amendment and implementing reasonable gun control laws. She, like so many politicians, attempted to bolster her pro-Second Amendment credentials while promoting more and more restrictive gun laws.
“This is what she said:
“I’m prepared to take executive action and put in place a ban on the importation of assault weapons … But we still have to deal with over two million assault weapons that are currently on the streets of America. So, a buyback program is a good idea.”
Colion Noir’s (@MrColionNoir on X.com) post describing Prime Minister Trudeau’s seizure of confiscated guns right on our northern border and then sending them to Ukraine shows the ultimate goal of gun control laws. Colion writes: “Gun control isn’t about safety—it’s about control. And once they take the guns, they’ll come for everything else.”
The Biden Pardon
Almost eighteen months before President Biden announced a pardon for Hunter Biden on December 2, 2024, he explicitly ruled out pardoning his son Hunter Biden during an interview with ABC News on June 6, 2023. He responded “yes” when asked if he ruled out such a pardon. Biden and his administration repeatedly reiterated this stance through subsequent interviews, statements, and press briefings.
Second Amendment Attorney and author Mark Smith, host of 4BoxesDiner on both X (formerly known as Twitter) and youtube.com, said about President Biden’s egregious pardon of his son, Hunter: “Hunter Biden’s Pardon just helped American gun owners. Biden’s discussion of malum prohibitum (in essence) gun crimes as an excuse to pardon Hunter is the sort of statement by anti-gunner Joe that we can use down the road against the ATF and against the anti-gunners generally.”
For all my non-lawyer friends
The term malum prohibitum refers to something that is considered illegal because a law or regulation states so, not because it’s inherently wrong—like most gun control schemes. For example, parking in a no-parking zone isn’t morally wrong but is illegal because the law prohibits it. It differs from malum in se, which means something is wrong by its very nature, like theft or murder. Thus, malum prohibitum laws focus on maintaining control, order, or adherence to rules rather than a law based on morality.
Hunter Biden was convicted in 2023 of three felonies for making a false statement about his addiction to a controlled substance when purchasing a firearm. He was also convicted of nine federal tax evasion charges. This December, he was scheduled to be sentenced dates for both the gun charges and the tax evasion charges. Yet, the pardon by his father, President Joe Biden, goes far beyond that conviction; it encompasses any crime that Hunter committed from 2014 to Dec. 2, 2024. The Washington Times summarizes what Hunter Biden faced:
“Hunter Biden was staring down a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison and a $750,000 fine in the gun case. The tax charges carried a maximum sentence of 17 years in prison. He would have likely received far less than the maximum sentence because he is a first-time offender.
“ His father’s pardon nullified all that and much, much more. The period from 2014 – 2024 includes Hunter’s Burisma consultancy and everything that occurred with any other business ventures that Hunter participated in “for the Big Guy.”
Biden’s own Department of Justices worked swiftly to prosecute Hunter. Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special prosecutor, David Weiss, in August 2023. Indictments on all the charges were announced only a month later. The trials were swiftly initiated and concluded with guilty verdicts.
The members of the U.S. Judiciary system were shocked at the pardon. U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi, the federal judge who oversaw Hunter’s tax evasion case, was highly critical of President Biden’s pardon when writing that “no evidence or indication” could “successfully influence” the indictments. Special prosecutor David Weiss’s filing on December 2 was also a response to the President’s charge of a “miscarriage of justice” by Republicans who were exhibiting “raw politics.” Weiss wrote, “There was none and never has been any evidence of vindictive or selective prosecution in this case.”
Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, told Guns.com in an email: “This pardon is an affront to all the people who have been convicted and or served prison time for falsely filling out the same federal form that Hunter Biden did. Especially those who committed a non-violent crime as a young adult and were never told that they lost the right to own a gun and had no intention of lying.”
