2020 Democratic Party Platform Declares Total War on Second Amendment Rights

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2020 Democratic Party Platform Declares Total War on Second Amendment Rights

AUGUST 3, 2020

NRA-ILA | 2020 Democratic Party Platform Declares Total War on Second Amendment Rights

The national Democratic Party is no longer making any attempt to hide their antipathy towards guns and gun owners. Where once the party attempted to tailor their anti-gun messaging to appear moderate and appeal to some gun owners, the draft 2020 Democratic Party Platform contains a full-throated assault on firearms ownership and a blueprint for undermining every aspect of Second Amendment rights. Viewed in historical context, the draft 2020 Democratic Party Platform is the most anti-gun the party has ever put forward.

Released July 21, the draft platform contains the following passage:

Democrats will enact universal background checks, end online sales of guns and ammunition, close dangerous loopholes that currently allow stalkers and some individuals convicted of assault or battery to buy and possess firearms, and adequately fund the federal background check system. We will close the “Charleston loophole” and prevent individuals who have been convicted of hate crimes from possessing firearms. Democrats will ban the manufacture and sale of assault weapons and high capacity magazines. We will incentivize states to enact licensing requirements for owning firearms and “red flag” laws that allow courts to temporarily remove guns from the possession of those who are a danger to themselves or others. We will pass legislation requiring that guns be safely stored in homes. And Democrats believe that gun companies should be held responsible for their products, just like any other business, and will prioritize repealing the law that shields gun manufacturers from civil liability.

The proposals include so-called “universal” background checks, the elimination of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System’s three-day safety -valve provision, and gun owner licensing, which would turn the right to keep and bear arms into a privilege dependent on the whim of government bureaucrats. The Democrats would empower government intrusions into the home to dictate how Americans keep and store firearms for self-defense and to confiscate firearms without due process based on the flimsiest of evidentiary standards. Moreover, the draft platform calls for a ban on commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms and their magazines, something explicitly prohibited under the U.S. Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Second Amendment in District of Columbia v. Heller.

Another portion of the platform states, “Democrats will also ensure the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have sufficient resources to study gun violence as a public health issue.” At a time when the politically-biased Centers for Disease Control has come under severe criticism for its response to an actual communicable disease, the national Democratic Party platform would further distract the agency from its core mission by turning it back into a taxpayer-funded gun control factoid factory.

The gun control section of the draft 2020 Democratic platform is an escalation of the anti-gun position put forward in the 2016 platform, adding and expounding upon the positions in the earlier document. Both are notable for what they omit. Neither recognizes that Americans have a Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms

With the nomination of Clinton in 2016, the pretense that the national Democratic Party would respect Second Amendment rights was no longer tenable.

During the campaign, Clinton repeatedly attacked the individual right to keep and bear arms. She even attacked the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Heller, which recognized the individual right to arms. Clinton told the audience at a September 2015 fundraiser in New York City “the Supreme Court is wrong on the Second Amendment. And I am going to make that case every chance I get.” At a separate event in Connecticut, the former senator called Heller “a terrible decision.” When asked by ABC’s George Stephanopolous to clarify her position on the Second Amendment, the former first lady refused to acknowledge that it protects an individual right.

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s persistent attacks on gun owners also make platform language in support of the Second Amendment indefensible.

The career politician has endorsed the confiscation of commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms. Biden had the following exchange with CNN’s Anderson Cooper when asked about firearm confiscation during an August 5, 2019 interview:

Cooper: So, to gun owners out there who say well a Biden administration means they are going to come for my guns.

Biden: Bingo! You’re right if you have an assault weapon.


Further, while attending a private $500 a person fundraiser in November, Biden revealed his intent to ban 9mm pistols. According to an article from the Seattle Times, while at the soiree, the 77-year-old posited to attendees “Why should we allow people to have military-style weapons including pistols with 9mm bullets and can hold 10 or more rounds?”

The U.S. Supreme Court has made clear that the Second Amendment prohibits the gun bans Biden advocates.

In Heller, the Court concluded that the types of firearms protected by the Second Amendment include those “in common use at the time” for “lawful purposes like self-defense.” The AR-15, which Biden has made clear he seeks to ban, is the most popular rifle in America and therefore undoubtedly “in common use” and protected by the Second Amendment. Similarly, industry data shows that 9mm pistols are the most common type of pistol produced.

In 2015, Heller decision author Justice Antonin Scalia reiterated that the Second Amendment and Heller preclude so-called “assault weapons” bans when he signed onto a dissent from the denial of certiorari in Friedman v. Highland Park. In the dissent, Justice Clarence Thomas explained,

Roughly five million Americans own AR-style semiautomatic rifles [with many millions more owning them in 2020]. The overwhelming majority of citizens who own and use such rifles do so for lawful purposes, including self-defense and target shooting. Under our precedents, that is all that is needed for citizens to have a right under the Second Amendment to keep such weapons.

The gun control section of the draft 2020 Democratic Party Platform is a perfect fit for the party’s presumptive presidential nominee. Both the platform drafters and the former vice president have put forward a radical gun control agenda that would further burden every aspect of gun ownership. Above all, both have exhibited a complete disregard for the Second Amendment.
 
 
Whenever I come across a 'new gun owner', I always try to explain the importance of their vote to their new-found endeavor and steps they should take to protect it...
Some oddly... are surprised.
 
I read this a bit ago elsewhere..

The only good thing I found in there is the party as a whole does not seem to be embracing the whole semi auto rifles => NFA concept. Of course its probably just because the majority of them are too uninformed to understand the concept.
 
Actually, if you read the entire article you'll see the platform has become increasingly more anti-2A each platform.
The true platform of the DNC against the 2a is well known to most gun owners. All that's changed is they have actually put more of it in writing. So it's not "increasingly" anti 2a......they've just chosen to come out of the closet.
 
dems are def going "All-In" on this election.
Not sure if their hand is strong enough to do so...biden is a weak candidate, and will not be pulling blacks to the polling stations. And gun rights issues...how many antis have actually "seen the light" when they hear of police refusing to come and rescue people when their businesses or bodies are under attack by rioters?
 
The U.S. Supreme Court has made clear that the Second Amendment prohibits the gun bans Biden advocates.

The current Court has made it clear that they will not protect gun rights, and the Democratic Party has made it clear that if they don't get their desired decisions from SCOTUS, then they will pack the Court until it is compliant.
 
The current Court has made it clear that they will not protect gun rights, and the Democratic Party has made it clear that if they don't get their desired decisions from SCOTUS, then they will pack the Court until it is compliant.

Then, what the court says will not matter when human flesh starts being the collateral damage for the communist's actions.

Anyone who is not prepared mentally and physically to start killing these people might as well pack their suitcase and start walking towards the cattle cars.

I will not give up my rights and I'll lay waste to as many commie bastards as necessary to maintain them. There will be no quarter given to any of them.......everyone is going down with the ship, if they have to be handcuffed to the rails as it's sinking.
 
Then, what the court says will not matter when human flesh starts being the collateral damage for the communist's actions.

Anyone who is not prepared mentally and physically to start killing these people might as well pack their suitcase and start walking towards the cattle cars.

I will not give up my rights and I'll lay waste to as many commie bastards as necessary to maintain them. There will be no quarter given to any of them.......everyone is going down with the ship, if they have to be handcuffed to the rails as it's sinking.
That is why I am teaching my daughters how to hit their targets in the head with rifle fire. Little Jill, at 8, can do it routinely. 6 year old Lexi is still learning.
 
The democrats must have received a very very big check from Bloomberg & Co. That's the only way that they are going to sacrifice themselves on a hill while supporting the killing of civil liberties.
 
The democrats must have received a very very big check from Bloomberg & Co. That's the only way that they are going to sacrifice themselves on a hill while supporting the killing of civil liberties.
The Donks are using a coronavirus as an excuse to ram through vote by mail, which will enable wholesale cheating.
 
The Biden-Harris Assault on the Second Amendment
Biden-Harris, if they succeed, will be the most anti-2A administration in history.

Mark Alexander · Aug. 19, 2020
The Biden-Harris Assault on the Second Amendment

To define the difference between Republicans and Democrats regarding the Second Amendment, consider the following.

The 2020 Democratic Party Platform declares total war on Second Amendment rights, the likes of which have never before found their way into the party’s policy platform.

It notes: “Democrats will ban the manufacture and sale of assault weapons and high capacity magazines. We will incentivize states to enact licensing requirements for owning firearms and ‘red flag’ laws that allow courts to temporarily remove guns from the possession of those who are a danger to themselves or others. We will pass legislation requiring that guns be safely stored in homes. And Democrats believe that gun companies should be held responsible for their products, just like any other business, and will prioritize repealing the law that shields gun manufacturers from civil liability.”

That is a marked shift from the Democrats’ 2008 and 2012 platforms, which affirmed, “We recognize that the right to bear arms is an important part of the American tradition, and we will preserve Americans’ Second Amendment right to own and use firearms.” The NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action concludes the current platform is a “full-throated assault on firearms ownership and a blueprint for undermining every aspect of Second Amendment rights.” The 2004 platform simply stated, “We will protect Americans’ Second Amendment right to own firearms.”

The ban on semiautomatic firearms and magazines was explicitly prohibited by the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2008 Second Amendment decision in District of Columbia v. Heller.

In 2015, Justice Antonin Scalia reiterated the Heller finding that the Second Amendment prohibits so-called “assault weapon” bans when he signed onto a dissent from the denial of certiorari in Friedman v. Highland Park. In that dissent, Justice Clarence Thomas explained: “Roughly five million Americans own AR-style semiautomatic rifles. The overwhelming majority of citizens who own and use such rifles do so for lawful purposes, including self-defense and target shooting. Under our precedents, that is all that is needed for citizens to have a right under the Second Amendment to keep such weapons.”

For the record, the number of 5.56mm semi-auto rifles is now estimated to be between 10 and 15 million, and every American Patriot I know, and 70 million I don’t know, are gun owners.

Notably, with the rise of Biden as the Democrats’ presumptive (and now official) nominee, between March and May of this year there have been more than 2.5 million first-time gun buyers in the U.S., more than 40% of whom are women. And after the Demos launched riots across the nation, gun sales surged in July, with more than 1,795,602 recorded transactions.

In stark contrast to the Biden-Harris socialist Democrat platform is the Republican platform, which was adopted from President Trump’s 2016 nomination convention. It states:

The Second Amendment: Our Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

We uphold the right of individuals to keep and bear arms, a natural inalienable right that predates the Constitution and is secured by the Second Amendment. Lawful gun ownership enables Americans to exercise their God-given right of self- defense for the safety of their homes, their loved ones, and their communities.

We salute the Republican Congress for defending the right to keep and bear arms by preventing the President from installing a new liberal majority on the Supreme Court. The confirmation to the Court of additional anti-gun justices would eviscerate the Second Amendment’s fundamental protections. Already, local officials in the nation’s capital and elsewhere are defying the Court’s decisions upholding an individual right to bear arms as affirmed by the Supreme Court in Heller and McDonald. We support firearm reciprocity legislation to recognize the right of law-abiding Americans to carry firearms to protect themselves and their families in all 50 states. We support constitutional carry statutes and salute the states that have passed them. We oppose ill-conceived laws that would restrict magazine capacity or ban the sale of the most popular and common modern rifle. We also oppose any effort to deprive individuals of their right to keep and bear arms without due process of law.

We condemn frivolous lawsuits against gun manufacturers and the current Administration’s illegal harassment of firearm dealers. We oppose federal licensing or registration of law-abiding gun owners, registration of ammunition, and restoration of the ill-fated Clinton gun ban. We call for a thorough investigation — by a new Republican administration — of the deadly “Fast and Furious” operation perpetrated by Department of Justice officials who approved and allowed illegal sales of guns to known violent criminals.

The anti-2A forces aligned against a second Trump term are formidable. The archenemies of Liberty, particularly billionaire socialists George Soros and Michael Bloomberg, are pouring tens of millions of dollars into key swing states.

It will be a pitched battle to defend the Second Amendment under a Biden-Harris regime, as Democrats long ago betrayed their solemn oaths “to support and defend” our Constitution and the Rule of Law. And if American Patriots don’t get their ground game together now, that will be the battle we face.
 
What a load of hot garbage. Ban this, ban that, end this, red flag law that, suspension of rights... how about you go f*** yourself. Prohibition never works, and it only does if the citizenry let it. It is more important than ever that we educate the influx of new gun owners we are currently experiencing.
 
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Then we would have to ask ourselves " what good is a 2nd amendment if we never use it?" For some " go time" will never arrive. For others the line is already drawn in the sand. When the decision arises,I pray that it's not too late. And a nation can come together once again to defeat tyranny.
 
Yet 1A includes looting an rioting supported by the Dems.

But guzs, bad in every way.

Seriously..

I swear to uphold the constitution against all enemy’s foreign and DOMESTIC.

Traitors. All of them.
 
ugh

"Further, while attending a private $500 a person fundraiser in November, Biden revealed his intent to ban 9mm pistols. According to an article from the Seattle Times, while at the soiree, the 77-year-old posited to attendees “Why should we allow people to have military-style weapons including pistols with 9mm bullets and can hold 10 or more rounds?”"

not surprising even on Fox tonight Chris Wallace made some ridiculous mention to "fully automatic assault weapons of mass destruction" and giving Biden a pass saying he isn't after people's guns....yeah not buying it.
 
dems are def going "All-In" on this election.
Not sure if their hand is strong enough to do so...biden is a weak candidate, and will not be pulling blacks to the polling stations. And gun rights issues...how many antis have actually "seen the light" when they hear of police refusing to come and rescue people when their businesses or bodies are under attack by rioters?
The mail in ballots are already filled out and postmarked, loaded in box trucks and in the trunks of big ass 70's Buicks, Caddys, and Crown Vics ready for local delivery. It only remains to be seen, how many they have to roll but be assured that they have millions of Biden votes ready... You don't go all in with a poor hand unless you know that the fix is on. [angry]
 
I wonder with all that funding, if they will give any money to the ATF. Aren't they supposed to give people BACK their guns but they haven't been funded since 1994? They love taking away, they never give BACK.
 
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