Criticizing Kamala Harris's gun control speech

 Everyone knows that Kamala Harris is terrible when it comes to public speaking. At least Joe Biden has the excuse that he's old and likely suffering from dementia. Kamala can't claim that she's getting old. While attending the funeral of Ruth Whitfield, 86, who was killed in a supermarket in Buffalo on May 14, Harris said "Everybody's got to stand up and agree that this should not be happening in our country and that we should have the courage to do something about it."

Then she "added that the solution was clear and included things like background checks and an assault weapons ban." As California's former AG, Harris knows that banning an entire class of weapons is forbidden. In the Supreme Court's DC v. Heller ruling, one finding of fact is that "the District’s total ban on handgun possession in the home amounts to a prohibition on an entire class of "arms" that Americans overwhelmingly choose for the lawful purpose of self-defense. Under any of the standards of scrutiny the Court has applied to enumerated constitutional rights, this prohibition—in the place where the importance of the lawful defense of self, family, and property is most acute—would fail constitutional muster. Similarly, the requirement that any lawful firearm in the home be disassembled or bound by a trigger lock makes it impossible for citizens to use arms for the core lawful purpose of self-defense and is hence unconstitutional."

That's what happens to politicians who a) don't understand the first thing about guns or b) don't respect the Constitution. According to the Heller ruling, the Harris proposal is instantly unconstitutional.

The chief point I want to make is that it's super-apparent that Harris doesn't know what assault weapons are. Assault weapon is a political term. Period. It doesn't have a substantive meaning. What Democrats call an assault weapon, I call a semi-automatic rifle with a handful of cosmetic changes. What a blithering idiot:

Semi-automatic weapons can do the same things that an assault rifle will do. Does VP Harris want to ban all semi-automatic rifles, too? Let's hope not.