On Red Flag Laws, Kamala Harris Is Even Further To The Left Than Biden

Would-be President Kamala Harris has a long history of advocating for red flag laws and undoubtedly will call for more restrictions that hinder law-abiding Americans if she is elected in November.

Red flag laws, also called Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs), are a policy which allow the government to take away your firearms without any reason and hold them for an unknown amount of time or indefinitely—and Vice President Kamala Harris is a big fan.

After all, she has spent her whole career fighting for them while performing gun buybacks (read: taxpayer-funded firearm confiscation).

So, what is a red flag law and why are they so bad?

They might seem harmless on face value, but they enable civil courts to issue warrants for the seizure of all firearms and ammunition owned or possessed by a respondent—without cause. Judges in 21 states and the District of Columbia can revoke your right to acquire and bear arms if someone files a red flag petition against you and convinces the government that you pose a danger.

Red flag laws are essentially unconstitutional witch hunts that allow the government to take your firearms before finding any evidence you have violated your right to bear arms.

They allow doctors, educators, family members, guardians, romantic partners, and spouses to petition the court to restrict your Second Amendment rights—and there isn’t much you can do about it other than make sure they are never implemented in your state.

“The problem with [red flag laws] is that you’re trying to predict the future, and you just can’t do that. We don’t live in a society where we punish people based on actions they may take at some unknown point in time, if ever,” Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) executive director Adam Kraut told Restoration News.

Over the last 8 years, Kamala Harris has worked to make red flag laws seem like a commonsense measure that prevents senseless “gun violence”—but as the Left normally does, she completely overlooks the constitutional violations that ensue.

Biden promoted red flag laws through the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act in 2021, but he had never discussed them before Harris joined his ticket in 2019—leading many to believe she is the driving force behind the catastrophic policy.

“In 2020, Harris ran to Biden’s left on guns. He even attacked her over one of her proposals during that campaign,” Stephen Gutowski, founder of the Reload, posted on X/Twitter. “President Biden had already been running a pretty aggressive campaign on gun control. Probably the most aggressive in 30 years, with an AR ban as his premier policy proposal. Harris could push things even further left.”

If we follow Harris’s history in the political sphere, we can see she has been eyeing red flag laws that match her home state of California for years.

(READ MORE: Red Flag Laws are a Modern Day Witch Hunt Against Gun Owners)

The Real Red Flag

In 2016, Harris endorsed and fought for Gun Violence Restraining Orders (GVROs) in California while serving as attorney general. During the same time, Harris also led a gun confiscation effort in California where she seized over 1,209 firearms from individuals the state deemed should not have firearms.

Three years later, while serving as a California senator and running for president, Harris suggested that red flag laws would be useful for taking firearms from “white nationalists” and “domestic terrorists.”

“We need to take action to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people and stop violent, hate-fueled attacks before they happen,” Harris said. “By focusing on confronting these domestic terror threats, we can save lives.”

She even suggested building on red flag laws to create “domestic terrorism prevention orders.” The only problem: Anyone who doesn’t agree with her leftist agenda is apparently a domestic terrorist in her eyes. After all, Harris made it very clear she doesn’t believe in an individual’s right to bear arms when she signed on to an amicus brief for the Heller Supreme Court decision in 2008, which upheld that fundamental right.

As vice president, Harris has called for red flag law expansion numerous times and currently runs the Federal Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center. Harris intends to spread the leftist disease killing California to the rest of the nation, and she is up front with her goal.

“First of all, having served as the Attorney General of the State of California, the work that I did is a model of what our nation needs to do and we will be able to do under a Joe Biden presidency,” she said.

Americans need to fight against her authoritarian views or every day, law-abiding Americans may find themselves without their Second Amendment rights.

(RELATED: California-Style Gun Registries Are Coming to Your State)

Bronson Winslow is an Investigative Researcher for Restoration News.

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