Harris Opposes School Resource Officers – But One Just Stopped The Georgia Shooter

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BELLEVUE, WA – When she was running for the presidency in 2019, Kamala Harris advocated for the removal of school resource officers, describing it as an effort to “demilitarize” school campuses, but she has been silent on the subject after a resource officer stopped and arrested the accused shooter at Apalachee High School in Georgia.

The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is congratulating the officers involved in arresting the 14-year-old accused killer, and reminding Vice President Harris that, if she had her way five years ago, Wednesday’s rampage might have been much worse. (RELATED: Georgia School Shooter Had Been On FBI Radar; Classmates Say They Weren’t Surprised: Report)

“Once again,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, “a good guy with a gun stopped a bad guy with a gun, demonstrating how wrong Kamala Harris was about the importance of armed school resource officers, who literally saved lives in Georgia. It’s just one of many things, especially relating to firearms and crime intervention, she’s been wrong about during her political career.”

Before dropping out of the 2020 campaign, Harris also advocated for “mandatory buybacks” of privately-owned modern rifles, a scheme critics quickly described as “compensated confiscation.” CCRKBA notes she has advocated for a ban on semiautomatic rifles, yet FBI crime data reveals that rifles of any kind are used in only 3 to 4 percent of all gun-related homicides in any given year.

“Kamala Harris, like every other anti-gun-rights Democrat, is only interested a sensational headline and a media soundbite,” Gottlieb observed. “It may sound good on television, but in reality, banning guns will accomplish nothing, and removing armed school resource officers would—as we saw Wednesday—accomplish less than nothing by making schools and our children more vulnerable.

“Kamala Harris was wrong about removing armed school resource officers,” he stated. “It’s time for the media to end its love fest with the vice president and start looking at what else she’s been wrong about.” 

With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (www.ccrkba.org) is one of the nation’s premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States.

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Alan Gottlieb

Alan M. Gottlieb is Founder of the Second Amendment Foundation. He is also the author or co-author of numerous books including Dancing In Blood: Exposing the Gun Lobby to Destroy Your Rights, Politically Correct GunsThe Gun Rights Fact BookThe Gun GrabbersThings You Can Do to Defend Your Gun RightsGun Rights Affirmed and Black and Blue. He is also co-author (with Dave Workman) of Shooting Blanks: The Democrats War Against GunsAmerica Fights Back: Armed Self-Defense in a Violent AgeThese Dogs Don’t Hunt: The Democrats’ War On GunsAssault on Weapons: The Campaign to Eliminate Your Guns and Shooting Blanks: Facts Don’t Matter to the Gun Control Crowd. Alan has published articles in the San Francisco ExaminerWashington PostChicago Tribune and USA Today. Mr. Gottlieb has appeared on over 6,000 TV and radio talk shows, including Lou Dobbs, ABC’s 20/20, The O’Reilly Show, MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews, CNN’s Crossfire, CBS Morning News, Laura Ingraham Show, BBC, NBC’s Today Show, Good Morning America and China TV.

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