Posted August 7, 2019 8:30 am by Comments

By Tom Knighton

To say that the 2020 field of Democratic presidential hopefuls doesn’t like guns is something of an understatement. There’s not a single one of the candidates that anyone should trust on the Second Amendment. The best one could hope for is a candidate who is “less bad” than the rest of the field.

And that was before this past weekend when we had two mass shootings.

Now, it seems those two incidents were enough to push some Democrats even farther to the left when it comes to guns.

This season’s crop of Democratic hopefuls is tacking far to the left on gun control after mass shootings in Texas and Ohio over the weekend. They have called for national licensing and firearm buybacks and suggested sending federal agents into people’s homes to confiscate weapons.

Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden, the front-runner in the Democratic race, said he would create a gun buyback program and remove military-style rifles from people’s possession once the weapons are banned.

Sen. Kamala D. Harris said she was open to a mandatory gun buyback program. She also suggested that she was fine with police knocking on doors and taking away weapons. When she was California attorney general, she …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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