In their first joint campaign appearance, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz dived headfirst into gun control, and for those familiar with both of their records, it should come as no surprise.
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz have both been notorious proponents of gun control, and used their offices to restrict gun ownership.
What may come as a surprise, though, is that despite constantly touting his military experience to legitimize his anti-gun policies, Walz never actually served in combat. In fact, he abandoned his National Guard unit upon notice of deployment to Iraq. That doesn't quite indicate leadership, and it certainly doesn't lend credibility to his claims about “assault weapons” considering he was in the United States for the entirety of the war, and didn't use them in any serious, professional, or life threatening capacity.
But that hasn't stopped him from using his time in the National Guard to tell voters he has firsthand experience and in depth knowledge of combat weapons that qualify him to restrict ownership on state and federal levels.
Addressing a crowd of supporters, he said “We can make sure those weapons of war, that I carried in war, are the only place where those weapons are at.”
He also wrote “as someone who served 24 years in the military, I know that assault weapons don't belong in the streets of our neighborhoods.”
JD Vance acknowledged Walz's these damning implications while answering a question on the campaign trail, delivering an especially humiliating blow to the Harris Walz campaign.
“When Tim Walz was asked by his country to go to Iraq, you know what he did? He dropped out of the Army and allowed his unit to go without him, a fact that he's been criticized for aggressively by a lot of the people that he served with. I think it's shameful to prepare your unit to go to Iraq, to make a promise that you're going to follow through and then to drop out right before you actually have to go. I also think it's dishonest…He was making a point about gun control. He said we shouldn't allow weapons ‘that I used in war' to be on America's streets. Well, I wonder, Tim Walz, when were you ever in war? When was this? What was this weapon that you carried into war, given that you abandoned your unit right before they went to Iraq? And he has not spent a day in a combat zone.”
To add insult to injury, JD Vance is a Marine veteran, that proudly served in Iraq.
“What really bothers me about Tim Walz — it's not even the positions that he's taken, though certainly he has been a far left radical. You know what really bothers me about Tim Walz, as a marine that served his country in uniform? When the United States Marine Corps…when the United States of America asked me to go to Iraq, to serve my country, I did it. I did what they asked me to do, and I did it honorably. And I'm very proud of that service.”
Walz is on record saying that free speech doesn't apply to misinformation. Does that mean his First Amendment rights should be revoked?
