Second Amendment advocate Jane Milhans is especially worried about the judges whom Harris may appoint if she is elected president, which could affect legal battles over gun control at both the state and federal level.
“If Trump is reelected, there’s no more White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention,” said Adzi Vokhiwa, vice president of policy at the Community Justice Action Fund, a gun violence prevention group. “I think all of that goes away.”
I gave little thought to gun violence or gun policy in America. I did not grow up with firearms, did not live proximate to endemic violence, nor was prevention a major political agenda.
Secret Service leaders meddled in an independent government investigation of the July 13 assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump and are still not following many basic agency security protocols.
Despite grassroots advocacy by liberals, conservative resistance to gun control has deflated the issue to the point that it barely registers in the US presidential campaign.
Stanton purchased a gun “just for my safety. Not only for me, but also for my family — you know, going about it in the right way, getting a license,” he said. “And also actually exercising my Second Amendment right.”
Gun culture 3.0 raises the question of what will happen after Nov. 5. Regardless of what the American electorate does on election day, it’s hard to imagine a scenario that doesn’t enable violence.
The theater we’re seeing from Harris and Walz this month is no different. It’s cosplay, and it’s insulting that they believe supporters of the constitutional right to self-defense will fall for it.
Now, instead of sending retired firearms back to the manufacturer — in exchange for new guns at a discount — the Cincinnati Police Department will destroy the weapons, costing them $500,000.
Harris supports universal background checks, banning assault weapons, and controls on the sale of firearms. She has tried to position herself as a moderate, pointing out that both she and her running mate Tim Walz own firearms.
