By: Anthony Morelli
The Democratic Party isn’t even hiding it anymore.
Gone are the days when they use terms like “common sense gun control.”
Now they are coming right out with their plans and openly promoting them.
Gun control has become one of the driving and unifying forces of the left in America, and the Democratic National Convention has made that abundantly clear.
In past decades at events like this, Democrats would talk more about things like concern for the poor, and giving economic help to those who need it.
While their solutions for those types of things may not have always been the best, it still left room in the party for people who were pro-gun or pro-life or held different social beliefs.
Now that has completely changed. The culture war has taken over the Democratic Party, and gun owners are one of the top foils for left-wing politicians.
The 2024 Democrat platform was released ahead of the convention, and people who read it were alarmed.
The gun control proposals in this platform were some of the most dangerous that have ever been put forward by a major party.
According to the Daily Caller, “Gun rights advocacy groups are sounding the alarm on the new 2024 Democratic National Committee (DNC) platform released Sunday that proposed sweeping gun control regulations.”
“The platform stated that Democrats would ‘pass a national red flag law to prevent tragedies by keeping weapons out of dangerous hands,’ and would increase ATF funding for ‘enforcement and prosecution,’ according to the platform released ahead of the convention beginning August 19.
“The DNC also restated their 2020 platform’s support for an ‘assault weapons’ ban, ‘high-capacity’ magazine ban, stripping liability protections from gun manufacturers and requiring ‘safe’ gun storage.”
These go far beyond what has been pushed in the past, especially the bit about stripping liability protection from the gun industry.
The purpose of that is effectively to shut down the gun industry, by making it impossibly expensive for them to do business while being at constant risk of lawsuits.
The article continues, “In 2021, House Democrats voted to pass the Federal Extreme Risk Protection Order Act that would enable family members and law enforcement to petition judges in order to strip firearms from people they deem to be ‘a risk to themselves or others,’ according to the bill. The Senate has taken no action on the bill since it was referred to the Judiciary Committee in 2022.”
If this bill passed federally, it would start a nationwide witch hunt against people who own guns and are perhaps a little socially different.
The Second Amendment is supposed to be for everybody, and the fact that someone is socially awkward or keeps to themselves or listens to heavy metal doesn’t change that.
Using “red flag” orders to take guns away from people who are different is a horribly unconstitutional form of gun control.
The Democratic Party is sprinting as far to the left as they can on guns to appease their base, and they have put out a disastrous platform.