David Hogg, freshly minted into leadership at the Democratic National Committee, is warning that he plans to push primaries against some members of his own party.
Hogg co-founded and is president of Leaders We Deserve, a group dedicated to electing young progressives, which is launching a push to primary House Democrats they view as &#8220;out-of-touch&#8221; and &#8220;ineffective.&#8221;
The $20 million effort will reportedly attempt to oust House Democrats in deep blue districts and elect younger leaders who will fight Trump more aggressively. The group will also spend money on races for state legislatures, Hogg <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/us/politics/david-hogg-dnc-leaders-we-deserve.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Hogg, 25, was elected as vice chair of the DNC less than three months ago. The young progressive activist initially made a name for himself after he survived the deadly school shooting at Parkland High School back in 2018, often going on profane rants demanding gun control.
The move by a member of the party brass to oust current Democratic lawmakers is an unprecedented one and is sure to face pushback from other Democrats.
“This is going to anger a lot of people,” Hogg <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/us/politics/david-hogg-dnc-leaders-we-deserve.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The New York Times, adding that he predicts a &#8220;smear campaign against me.&#8221;
“People say they want change in the Democratic Party, but really they want change so long as it doesn’t potentially endanger their position of power,” he told the paper. “That’s not actually wanting change. That’s selfishness.”
Hogg also reportedly refused to sign a “neutrality policy,” asking party leaders not to engage in any activity that would “call into question their impartiality and evenhandedness,” either in “their D.N.C. capacity and in their personal capacity.”
The Democratic Party has struggled to find its footing and a cohesive message that resonates with the public after the thrashing candidates up and down the ballot took in the November election.
Some of the internal strife involves the younger generation of progressives bucking older party leadership, urging policies further to the left and a more aggressive approach against the Trump administration.
“What we are not saying here is, ‘Oh, you’re old, you need to go,’” Hogg said of older elected Democrats. “What we’re saying is we need to make room for a new generation to step up and help make sure that we have the people that are most acutely impacted by a lot of the issues that we are legislating on — that are actually going to live to see the consequences of this.”
Hogg did not name any specific Democrats his group is looking to unseat yet.

March for Our Lives 2022

New DNC Leader David Hogg Says He’ll Push Primaries Against Some In His Own Party

New DNC Leader David Hogg Says He'll Push Primaries Against Some In His Own Party

David Hogg

Democratic National Committee

Gun Control

Guns

Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin used his veto power to send a bill back to the Democrat-controlled legislature with a clever change.
The legislature last month passed a bill introduced by State Delegate Laura Jane Cohen (D-Fairfax), a far-left former school board member, requiring schools to text and email parents each school year, admonishing them to lock up any guns they own. Youngkin added a provision that would require schools to also communicate with parents before transitioning a child to a different gender.
Democrats previously voted down a similar bill, but now they will have to vote whether to accept or reject the edit, potentially putting them on the record in an election year that they oppose parental involvement in the most intimate aspect of their child’s life. Virginia holds elections in odd-numbered years, and Democrat Terry McAuliffe lost the election to Youngkin in 2019 after saying he didn’t believe parents should play a role in what goes on in schools.
Youngkin sailed to victory after lashing out at Loudoun County Public Schools for covering up a rape by a “genderfluid” boy in order to pass a transgender bathroom policy. 
<a href="https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1046364.PDF" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cohen’s bill</a> required school boards to “require the notification of the parent of each student enrolled in the local school division, to be sent by email and, if applicable, SMS text message within 30 calendar days succeeding the first day of each school year, of (i) the importance of securely storing any prescription drug, as defined in § 54.1-3401, present in the household and (ii) the parent&#8217;s responsibility, in accordance with § 18.2-56.2, to safely store any firearm present in the household.”
Instead of vetoing it, Youngkin continued with the theme of parental communication, <a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1678/text/HB1678AG" target="_blank" rel="noopener">adding a requirement</a> that:
<blockquote>Local school boards shall develop protocols by which each public elementary or secondary school principal or his designee shall, as soon as practicable, (i) inform at least one parent of a minor student enrolled in such school if such minor requests that any school employee participate while at school in (a) social affirmation of the minor student&#8217;s gender incongruence or (b) the transition of such minor to a felt or stated gender different from the minor student&#8217;s biological sex and (ii) request and receive permission from at least one parent of a minor student enrolled at such school prior to the implementation at such school of any plan concerning any gender incongruence experienced by such minor, including any counseling of such minor at school that includes a provision for parental participation.</blockquote>
Cohen called the amendment “garbage,” telling <a href="https://www.wvtf.org/news/2025-03-28/youngkin-adds-controversial-amendment-to-parental-notification-law" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RadioIQ,</a> “For some people, teachers are the only ones they can talk to in their lives.&#8221;
As this reporter&#8217;s book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Race-Bottom-Uncovering-Destroying-Education/dp/0063056720/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Race to the Bottom</a> found, Cohen has a child who has severe cognitive disabilities and who believes she is transgender. She ran for the Fairfax County School Board in 2019 to displace a Republican who had tried to stop the board from rushing through a transgender policy in spite of public comment indicating widespread opposition. Cohen was elected with assistance from Moms Demand Action, a national anti-gun group funded by billionaire Michael Bloomberg.
On Wednesday, the legislature will hold a floor debate on the provision requiring parental permission for gender transition, and Democrats will have to vote on whether they think schools should transition a child’s gender while keeping it secret from their parents.
Democrats have only slim majorities in each chamber, so Youngkin&#8217;s proposal would become law if even a few Democrats support it. The Daily Wire asked three vulnerable House Democrats — Joshua Cole (Fredericksburg), Josh Thomas (Gainesville), and Michael Feggans (Virginia Beach) — their positions, and none replied.
In 2023, Republicans introduced a similar bill called <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virginia-republican-moves-to-ban-calling-misgendering-child-abuse-after-girl-is-kept-from-her-parents-for-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sage’s Law</a>, named after a girl from rural Virginia who was secretly gender-transitioned by her high school, setting in motion her being sex trafficked to Baltimore, where the FBI found her locked in the home of a convicted sex offender. A Baltimore court refused to return her to Virginia after a school counselor allegedly speculated that Sage&#8217;s mother might not accept her new gender. Instead, she was placed in a foster home for Baltimore’s most troubled boys, and was abused again.
Despite the heartbreaking story, Democrats voted down Sage’s Law last session. It was re-introduced this year, but denied a hearing, at which the story would have been told. (Read about Sage’s horror story <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/maryland-refused-to-give-back-a-virginia-runaway-because-her-parents-misgendered-her-then-she-was-sex-trafficked-mother-says">here</a>.)
Sage’s mother later filed a lawsuit against the Appomattox County Public Schools, alleging its counselors summoned Sage to discuss her gender eight times during the first 12 days of the 2021-22 school year. It also alleged that the counselors were providing major psychiatric care they were not qualified or authorized to perform.

Virginia Governor Glenn (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Youngkin Edits Far-Left Legislator’s Gun Bill, Making It Prohibit Secret Gender Transitions For Kids

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Virginia

Police said &#8220;around 10 people&#8221; were killed — including the suspected gunman — in a shooting at a school in central <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/sweden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sweden</a>, marking the worst mass shooting in the nation&#8217;s history.
Officers were <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/europe/orebro-sweden-school-shooting-intl/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> around 12:30 p.m. local time to a campus in Örebro, where a lone gunman allegedly opened fire on dozens of people and then shot himself before coming into contact with authorities, according to a report by CNN.
&#8220;We think he is a lone perpetrator,&#8221; local police chief Roberto Eid Forest added. &#8220;It&#8217;s a terrible event, it&#8217;s exceptional – a nightmare.&#8221;
Forest was not able to provide an exact death toll due to the extensive damage at the crime scene, although he did note that six people were taken to the hospital, with two being in stable condition.
Sweden&#8217;s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson offered condolences to the victims&#8217; families, stating, &#8220;We&#8217;ve today seen brutal, deadly violence against completely innocent people – this is the worst mass shooting in Swedish history.&#8221;
Police said the suspect was not previously known to them and did not appear to have extremist ties or gang affiliation.
Campus Risbergska, the adult education center where the attack occurred, usually sees high pedestrian traffic during the day. However, a teacher at the school noted that on the day of the shooting, many students had finished a national exam and gone home, leaving the building significantly less crowded.
Sweden’s Expressen newspaper interviewed Andreas Sundling, 28, who sheltered in a classroom during the shooting. 
“We heard three bangs and loud screams … now we’re sitting here waiting to be evacuated from the school,” Sundling <a href="https://apnews.com/article/sweden-shooting-adult-education-center-6be99a59fa3404ae296589e60c881f6c?taid=67a25450f4a0e500015229dd&amp;utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&amp;utm_medium=AP&amp;utm_source=Twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recounted</a>, via The Associated Press. 
The witness, who was sheltering in a classroom, added that students were told to lock down until law enforcement arrived to secure the area. Police later began evacuating schools adjacent to Campus Risbergska, moving faculty and students to safer locations as officers searched the premises. 
Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf released a statement expressing that he and his family had received the news “with sadness and dismay,” extending condolences to the families of the victims and praying for a swift recovery of the hospitalized students. 
While details surrounding the shooter’s motives remain under investigation, authorities have said there is no current indication of a wider plot.
In 2023, official data showed Sweden experiencing one of the highest rates of gun violence per capita in Europe, and in 2024, at least 40 people were reportedly fatally shot.

SWEDEN-CRIME-SHOOTING

‘A Nightmare’: At Least 10 Dead In Shooting At Swedish School

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/democratic-national-committee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Democratic National Committee</a> (DNC) has chosen leftist activist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/david-hogg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Hogg</a> to serve in one of its top roles.
Over the weekend, DNC members <a href="https://democrats.org/news/dnc-members-elect-new-slate-of-dnc-officers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">picked</a> Hogg to serve as vice chair alongside Artie Blanco and Malcolm Kenyatta. They also elected Ken Martin, a longtime leader of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, to become chairman.
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I’ve just been elected as a Vice Chair of the DNC. I’m deeply grateful to the members for their trust and belief in me and I don’t take it lightly. Now it’s time to get to work. 🧵 <a href="https://t.co/3ypkRc62hL">pic.twitter.com/3ypkRc62hL</a>
&mdash; David Hogg 🟧 (@davidhogg111) <a href="https://twitter.com/davidhogg111/status/1885934686075064347?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Hogg became a high-profile gun control proponent after surviving the 2018 Parkland high school shooting in Florida in which 17 people were killed.
In his bid for DNC vice chair, Hogg was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/far-left-walz-endorses-fellow-radical-david-hogg-for-dnc-vice-chair" target="_blank" rel="noopener">endorsed</a> by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, the Democratic Party&#8217;s failed vice-presidential candidate in the 2024 election.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/far-left-walz-endorses-fellow-radical-david-hogg-for-dnc-vice-chair" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously reported</a> by The Daily Wire:
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Hogg has a history of outlandish statements and self-promotion; in June 2022, he accused Florida GOP Sen. Marco Rubio of avoiding him because Hogg “triggered” him, writing in a later-deleted tweet, “Rubio staff said I can&#8217;t meet with him or his staff because I &#8216;trigger&#8217; him. I just wanna have a conversation. Please meet with me @marcorubio I just want to figure out how we can stop these things from happening. We have to end the continuous debate and find what we can agree on.”
“No one said such a thing,&#8221; Rubio&#8217;s Chief of Staff Michael Needham responded to Hogg. “As for the meeting, you must be confused as we had a 2p meeting scheduled with you. However, since you are lying and clearly using this all for self-promotion, that meeting is now cancelled [sic]. &#8230; the reporter doing a profile of you knows the meeting is real since she was emailing yesterday with our comms team about it. Don’t lie again — we have receipts.”
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Also, the reporter doing a profile of you knows the meeting is real since she was emailing yesterday with our comms team about it. Don’t lie again — we have receipts.
&mdash; Michael Needham (@MikeNeedham) <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeNeedham/status/1534934071427706882?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In August 2018, Hogg claimed that the “NRA is pulling strings to increase gun sales in a record low year.” He was immediately fact-checked:
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There have been about 1 million more FBI background checks, the most reliable indicator of gun sales, this year than last year and this year is on pace to be the second-best in the history of NICS. So, no, gun sales are not experiencing a record low year. <a href="https://t.co/3TuvrVnvOu">https://t.co/3TuvrVnvOu</a>
&mdash; Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) <a href="https://twitter.com/StephenGutowski/status/1032794832903843840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 24, 2018</a></blockquote>
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In September 2020, Hogg <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/david-hogg-apologizes-for-condemning-violence">stated</a>, “The use of violence to acquire political power is deeply rooted in imperialism, capitalism and white supremacy[.] I personally refuse to believe that the use of this same violence will ever create nonviolent systems of government that represent and support everyone.” He later apologized, but added, “Let me be clear what I am NOT trying to do is tell BIPOC people how they should react to violence directed at them by the state. It’s not my place or any white persons to direct or criticize the way BIPOC people choose to defend themselves against this violence from the state.”
Hogg was accepted to Harvard University despite getting only a 1270 on his SATs. “The bottom 25% of students admitted had an average score of 1460,” Business Insider <a href="applewebdata://0CB7A4F1-65E5-4553-8D3B-B711F7A2BEDA/v">noted</a>.
After Hogg was elected as DNC vice chair, Hogg&#8217;s critics took a moment to point out some of his prior comments.
&#8220;DNC Vice Chair David Hogg has some legitimately INSANE views that are wildly out of step with the American people,&#8221; said conservative communicator Steve Guest. &#8220;Good to see that the Democrat Party has learned absolutely nothing.&#8221;
Here&#8217;s some of what Guest and others highlighted:
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He also has 0 knowledge about how the Constitution works. <a href="https://t.co/nhX7HDouQz">pic.twitter.com/nhX7HDouQz</a>
&mdash; Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1886087180830822503?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Throwback to when the new DNC Vice Chair David Hogg, got destroyed by a Chinese immigrant on gun control <a href="https://t.co/KCdeXXT0SF">pic.twitter.com/KCdeXXT0SF</a>
&mdash; Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1885907309462790376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Dear America,
The democrats just elected rabid anti-gun activist David Hogg as Vice Chairman for the DNC.
In 2023, Hogg posted, “You have no right to a gun.”
To every hunter/gun owner in America, it’s time to vote
(30% of Pennsylvania hunters are NOT registered to vote). <a href="https://t.co/mW8lwi1omB">pic.twitter.com/mW8lwi1omB</a>
&mdash; ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottPresler/status/1886052396121326030?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The new Vice Chair of the DNC wants to Defund the Police. <a href="https://t.co/66JtnaVk8J">pic.twitter.com/66JtnaVk8J</a>
&mdash; Jerry Dunleavy IV 🇺🇸 (@JerryDunleavy) <a href="https://twitter.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1886117032703189161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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DNC Elects David Hogg To Top Role. Here’s A Look At Some Of His ‘INSANE’ Statements.

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Politics

A clip of Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a> went viral this week that showed remarks she made as San Francisco&#8217;s district attorney in which she said that police had the right to &#8220;walk into&#8221; people&#8217;s homes and inspect their legally-owned firearms.
The Democrat presidential nominee made the remarks while speaking to reporters during a press conference in 2007 about a law that was being introduced that she helped write.
Harris said, &#8220;We&#8217;re going to require responsible behaviors among everybody in the community, and just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn&#8217;t mean that we&#8217;re not going to walk into that home and check to see if you&#8217;re being responsible and safe in the way you conduct your affairs.&#8221;
Fox News reported that the anti-gun bill was ultimately signed into law by then-San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom.
&#8220;It was bundled with other gun control provisions, including a new requirement for legal gun distributors to submit an inventory to the chief of police every six months, and a ban on possessing guns – even legally – in public housing,&#8221; the report said.
The NRA said in a post that included the video: &#8220;Kamala Harris wants mass gun confiscation, and she’s willing to weaponize the government to enter your home and seize your legally owned guns.&#8221;
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🚨Kamala Harris wants mass gun confiscation, and she’s willing to weaponize the government to enter your home and seize your legally owned guns:
“Just because you LEGALLY possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn&#8217;t mean that we&#8217;re not going to walk into that home… <a href="https://t.co/4ET5m7ToSx">pic.twitter.com/4ET5m7ToSx</a>
— NRA (@NRA) <a href="https://twitter.com/NRA/status/1836422943644983481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 18, 2024</a></blockquote>
The Trump campaign called her an &#8220;anti-gun RADICAL.&#8221;
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Kamala: “Just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn&#8217;t mean that we&#8217;re not going to walk into that home and check to see if you&#8217;re being responsible.”
She’s an anti-gun RADICAL. <a href="https://t.co/CTcyGgrJEf">pic.twitter.com/CTcyGgrJEf</a>
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1836411228710662355?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 18, 2024</a></blockquote>

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Harris Says Authorities Can ‘Walk Into’ Homes And Inspect Guns In Resurfaced Clip

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Kamala Harris

National Rifle Association (NRA)

Second Amendment

Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a> claimed during an interview that aired on Friday that she would not confiscate people&#8217;s firearms, but she would ban so-called &#8220;assault weapons,&#8221; which are nothing more than semi-automatic long guns.
Harris made the remarks during an interview with 6abc Action News when the interviewer brought up Harris&#8217; claim during the debate earlier this week that she owned a firearm.
&#8220;Where do you draw the line in America on gun ownership and gun use?&#8221; the interviewer asked.
&#8220;I am a gun owner,&#8221; she claimed. &#8220;And Tim Walz, my running mate, is also a gun owner. We&#8217;re not taking anybody&#8217;s guns away. I support the Second Amendment and I support reasonable gun safety laws. Part of my approach to this is, I was a career prosecutor for most of my career. I have personally prosecuted homicide cases. I have personally looked at autopsies. I have personally seen what assault weapons do to the human body.&#8221;
&#8220;And so I feel very strongly that it is consistent with the Second Amendment and your right to own a gun to also say we need an assault weapons ban,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;They’re literally tools of war. They were literally designed to kill a lot of human beings quickly.&#8221;
Harris&#8217; claim that so-called &#8220;assault weapons&#8221; are &#8220;literally tools of war&#8221; is false.
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The weapons that she is referring to are the civilian versions of weapons that militaries and law enforcement agencies use. They do not have the ability to burst fire, which is typically 3 rounds per each pull of the trigger, nor do they have the ability to fire full-auto, which allows the weapon to repeatedly fire until it runs out of ammunition with a single pull of the trigger as long as the operator does not release the trigger.
&#8220;I say we need universal background checks,&#8221; she claimed, even though people already have to undergo a background check to purchase a firearm from an FFL. &#8220;The majority of NRA members support that. Why? Because it&#8217;s just reasonable. You just might want to know before someone can buy a lethal weapon if they&#8217;ve been found by a court to be a danger to themselves or others. You just might want to know.&#8221;
WATCH:
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WATCH: Kamala Harris claims that she doesn’t want to take anyone’s guns, she just wants to ban them.
NARRATOR: Kamala Harris would try to take our guns too. 
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— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1835019073434140909?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 14, 2024</a></blockquote>

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Kamala Harris Claims She Won’t Take Guns, But Signals She Wants A Ban

Vice President Kamala Harris lied about her position on gun confiscation during Tuesday night&#8217;s debate, and despite knowing that it was a lie, ABC News moderator David Muir left her to persist, unchecked.
In a rebuttal to former President Donald Trump — who had accurately stated that Harris had voiced support for gun confiscation via mandatory buyback programs — the Vice President claimed that she was a gun owner and declared that she had no intention of taking anyone&#8217;s guns.
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In 2020, ABC&#8217;s David Muir &amp; Joe Biden called Kamala Harris out for wanting to issue an Executive Order to take away people&#8217;s guns.
Last night, Muir sat there and let Kamala lie and say that she wasn&#8217;t going to take anyone&#8217;s guns away. <a href="https://t.co/aDt2ZN3spu">pic.twitter.com/aDt2ZN3spu</a>
— Media Research Center (@theMRC) <a href="https://twitter.com/theMRC/status/1833885683036876972?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 11, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;She is destroying our country. She has a plan to defund the police. She has a plan to confiscate everybody’s gun. She has a plan to not allow fracking in Pennsylvania or anywhere else,&#8221; Trump asserted.
&#8220;Tim Walz and I are both gun owners. We’re not taking anybody’s guns away,&#8221; Harris insisted in reply, adding, &#8220;Stop with the continuous lying about this stuff.&#8221;
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She had previously alluded to her personal firearm during her ill-fated presidential campaign in 2019, saying, &#8220;I am a gun owner, and I own a gun for probably the reason a lot of people do — for personal safety. I was a career prosecutor.&#8221;
But Harris did say that she favored mandatory gun buybacks, a position challenged during one of the 2019 primary debates by then-candidate Joe Biden and moderator David Muir.
During that debate, Biden argued that gun buybacks could not be enacted via executive order. Muir pressed Harris for a response, asking, &#8220;Does the Vice President have a point there?&#8221;
&#8220;I would say hey, Joe, instead of saying no we can&#8217;t, let&#8217;s say yes we can,&#8221; she said, tossing her hair and laughing.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s be constitutional,&#8221; Biden shot back. &#8220;We got a constitution.&#8221;
&#8220;Yes we can,&#8221; Harris insisted, still laughing.

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Kamala Lied About Gun Confiscation During Debate. Muir Knew She Lied And Said Nothing

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David Muir

Gun Buybacks

Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/raphael-warnock" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Raphael Warnock</a> (R-GA) conceded on Sunday that no particular gun law that would have stopped the deadly shooting at a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/georgia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Georgia</a> high school last week even as he blamed firearms for the tragedy anyway.
During an interview on NBC, &#8220;Meet The Press&#8221; moderator Kristen Welker asked Warnock whether there was a &#8220;specific law&#8221; that he thought could have prevented the shooting that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/father-of-suspected-georgia-school-shooter-charged-with-murder" target="_blank" rel="noopener">killed four people</a> given how the father of suspected 14-year-old shooter <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/05/us/winder-georgia-shooting-apalachee-high-school/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly told</a> investigators he gave the AR-15-style rifle used in the attack to his son as a holiday gift last year. Both the alleged gunman and his father have since been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/father-of-suspected-georgia-school-shooter-charged-with-murder" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested and charged</a>.
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&#8220;Listen, 14-year-olds don&#8217;t need AR-15s, and we need to get these military-style weapons off the streets. Eighty-seven percent of Americans (Democrats and Republicans, according to the Fox News report last year), believe that we ought to have universal background checks and still we can&#8217;t even get that done in Congress,&#8221; Warnock said.
&#8220;Listen, there is no one single law that will stop all of these tragedies. In a sense, I think we have to broaden the scope of the question because after all we have two mass shootings a day in our country, based on the data just last year. And this does not happen everywhere in the world,&#8221; he added before chiding politicians who are &#8220;beholden to the gun lobby&#8221; and lamenting how &#8220;we&#8217;re all sitting ducks&#8221; when it comes to school shootings.
Welker also repeatedly pressed Warnock on whether he thinks Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a>, who is running for the presidency atop the Democratic Party&#8217;s ticket, should support a mandatory gun buy-back program for so-called &#8220;assault weapons&#8221; like Harris <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6360516566112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> she would in 2019 during her first White House campaign. The moderator noted how Harris&#8217; campaign told her overnight that Harris will &#8220;not push for mandatory buy-backs but has expressed support for an assault weapons ban, expanded background checks, red flag laws.&#8221;
In his first response, Warnock said, &#8220;We&#8217;re not going to be able to get where we need to go without action in Congress.&#8221; The senator said he was &#8220;heartened&#8221; by the enactment two years ago of the &#8220;Bipartisan Safer Communities Act,&#8221; which The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-signs-most-expansive-gun-control-bill-in-decades-into-law-following-republican-support" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> as the most expansive gun control law in decades that gave financial grants to states for “red-flag” laws and increased background check stipulations for 18 to 21-year-olds.
&#8220;It was the first gun safety law we passed in 30 years. Thirty years. And it was modest, but it did save lives. But clearly (in the wake of what happened just the other day in Winder, Georgia), it&#8217;s not enough. And the least we can do is move forward on the bipartisan spaces where ordinary people agree,&#8221; Warnock said. &#8220;Clearly, there&#8217;s a disconnect between what the people, the American people want, and what they&#8217;re able to get out of their government. Again, 87% of Americans believe in background checks, and yet I hear politicians say that it&#8217;s not guns who kill people, it&#8217;s people who kill people. And yet we don&#8217;t even want to know who those people are. We won&#8217;t even support common sense gun reform.&#8221;
Asked again about whether Harris should support a mandatory gun buy-back program, Warnock said,  &#8220;As a pastor I&#8217;ve done buy-back programs. You can pick this issue or that issue. But I think that, again, there&#8217;s not one single thing that will make all of this go away.&#8221;

Senator Raphael Warnock

Democrat Senator Admits No Gun Law Would Have Stopped Georgia Shooting, Blames Guns Anyway

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Raphael Warnock

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U.S. Senate

A federal judge struck down a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-jersey" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Jersey</a> ban on AR-15 rifles on Tuesday, ruling that the prohibition violates the U.S. Constitution.
U.S. District Judge Peter Sheridan wrote in a 69-page <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/new-jersey-ar-15-ban-unconstitutional.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decision</a> that a provision in New Jersey’s “Assault Firearms Law” banning the possession and sale of AR-15s violated the Second Amendment. The Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs and the Firearms Policy Coalition sued the state over the restriction and another provision banning higher-capacity magazines. 
In his decision, Sheridan pointed to Supreme Court decisions on gun regulations, including the recent Bruen decision, in which the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-scotus-strikes-down-new-york-concealed-carry-restrictions-restrictions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">court </a>struck down New York&#8217;s restrictions on concealed carry, ruling that judges must consider gun control laws in the “historical tradition of firearm regulation” in the United States. 
“That is, where the Supreme Court has set forth the law of our Nation, as a lower court, I am bound to follow it,” Sheridan wrote. “This principle — combined with the reckless inaction of our governmental leaders to address the mass shooting tragedy afflicting our Nation — necessitates the Court&#8217;s decision. For these reasons and those below, the AR-15 Provision of Assault Firearms Law is unconstitutional.”
Sheridan wrote that the possession of AR-15s for self-defense purposes was protected under the Second Amendment and was “inconsistent with our Nation&#8217;s historical tradition of firearm regulation.”
His decision did not strike down a ban on similar guns, like the Beretta AR-70 or the Springfield Armory BM59, that were included in the same law, saying he only heard arguments on the AR-15. 
Association of New Jersey Rifle &amp; Pistol Clubs Executive Director Scott Bach <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-greenlights-ar-15-sales-in-new-jersey-finding-ban-unconstitutional/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">indicated</a> his group would appeal the ruling. 
&#8220;While the decision is mixed and certain to be appealed by both sides, it is groundbreaking in that it invalidates part of New Jersey&#8217;s &#8216;assault firearms&#8217; ban — a misguided hardware ban destined to be overturned in its entirety,” he said.
The judge also ruled that a prohibition on higher capacity magazines was constitutional, rejecting the plaintiffs&#8217; challenge on that front. He pointed to mass shootings as one reason for his decision. 
“Second, that large capacity ammunition magazines have been used in most of these mass shooting events in recent years. This relationship is impossible to ignore,” he wrote. 
Democrat New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin accused the court of weaponizing the Second Amendment to “undermine public safety” and promised to appeal the decision to strike down the AR-15 ban.

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Federal Judge Rules New Jersey’s AR-15 Ban Unconstitutional

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NBC&#8217;s Erin McLaughlin appeared to link last Friday&#8217;s Supreme Court decision — which overturned a Trump-era ban on bump stocks — to mass shootings that occurred over the weekend, despite the fact that bump stocks were not used in any of the instances she referenced.
McLaughlin made the intuitive leap during Monday morning&#8217;s broadcast of The Today Show, framing her report for anchor Hoda Kotb as though there was a direct connection between the court&#8217;s ruling and the shootings.
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NBC&#8217;s Erin McLaughlin blames the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision on bump stocks to 3 mass shootings over the weekend, despite the fact none of the weapons were equipped with them. <a href="https://t.co/j5IfEKaEWE">pic.twitter.com/j5IfEKaEWE</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1802689317879374160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;A mass shooting at a splash pad in Michigan, another at a Juneteenth celebration in Texas, and yet another at a gathering in Massachusetts — all just days after Friday&#8217;s Supreme Court ruling that rejects a ban on bump stocks,&#8221; McLaughlin began.
&#8220;This morning, friends and families across the country are grieving after multiple mass shootings this weekend,&#8221; the report continued, showing several clips of emergency calls that went out during the shootings as well as the police response.
At the Michigan splash pad, a shooter discharged 28 rounds and injured at least nine, some of whom were children. The shooter then reportedly turned the weapon on himself, and an investigation into his possible motive is ongoing.
In Texas, two were killed and more than a dozen were injured when a gunman opened fire — and in that case, authorities are still looking for the alleged perpetrator.
In Massachusetts, a pop-up party was the target of a shooting that left eight injured.
At the end of the report, McLaughlin circled back to the Supreme Court ruling — seeming once again to suggest a link between the bump stock ban being overturned and the three recent shootings.

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NBC Breathlessly Ties SCOTUS Bump Stock Ruling To Mass Shootings — Where They Weren't Used

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For those who don&#8217;t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week&#8217;s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.
Sunday&#8217;s media spin centered on the Supreme Court — specifically Friday&#8217;s 6-3 ruling that overturned a ban on bump stocks that was first issued in 2017 — and the angle was blatantly obvious. Democrat guests were brought in to complain about the ruling — and claim that the court is leaning too far to the right — and a few Republicans to push back while the hosts toed the Democrat line.
On ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week,&#8221; host Jonathan Karl pressed potential Trump VP pick Tim Scott to weigh in on the decision — and whether or not he would support any new action taken to ban bump stocks.
&#8220;We trust and believe and respect the decision of the Supreme Court,&#8221; Scott began, before pivoting to add, &#8220;What we need to focus on is the violence that we’re seeing across this nation. Under Joe Biden we’ve seen the greatest increase in violent crime in my lifetime. And so focusing on ways for us to reduce that crime means getting four more years of Donald Trump. Under Donald Trump we actually respected law enforcement. Under Joe Biden, we’ve seen the movement to defund the police, leaving communities like the one I grew up in devastated and ravaged by a wave of violent crime that we have not seen literally in five decades.&#8221;
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“We trust and believe and respect the decision of the Supreme Court.”<a href="https://twitter.com/jonkarl?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JonKarl</a> presses GOP Sen. Tim Scott on whether he would support new action against bump stocks after the Supreme Court invalidated a Trump-era ban on the devices. <a href="https://t.co/CJDxqTJWcw">https://t.co/CJDxqTJWcw</a> <a href="https://t.co/tnkCwPeGJg">pic.twitter.com/tnkCwPeGJg</a>
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1802332598196113527?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
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On &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; CNN anchor Jake Tapper prompted Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) — another likely Trump veepstakes contender — to weigh in on the bump stock ban reversal, and he too defended the court.
Tapper noted that the Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling had made it sound as though a majority might support a ban if it were approached through legislation rather than executive action, and then turned the question to Cotton, asking whether he would support such a move.
&#8220;First I want to make a point about the Supreme Court more broadly,&#8221; Cotton began. &#8220;For years, Democrats like Chuck Schumer and Joe Biden have attacked this court because they don&#8217;t like the fact that it&#8217;s got a center-right constitutionalist majority.&#8221;
He went on to point out that for all their complaints that the court supported and deferred to former President Trump, this was a clear example of the court overturning something Trump had supported.
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On <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNNSotu</a> with <a href="https://twitter.com/jaketapper?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jaketapper</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/SenTomCotton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenTomCotton</a> defends the Supreme Court ruling overturning the Trump-era ban on bump stocks. <a href="https://t.co/RXcarDyKX3">pic.twitter.com/RXcarDyKX3</a>
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1802358785240969468?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Tapper also spoke with Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) about the bump stock ruling, and Murphy used the opportunity to attack both Republicans and the court.
&#8220;It’s really scary that we have lost Republican support for banning machine guns,&#8221; Murphy complained in one clip.
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“It’s really scary that we have lost Republican support for banning machine guns.”<a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ChrisMurphyCT</a> joins <a href="https://twitter.com/jaketapper?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jaketapper</a> to discuss the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn a Trump-era ban on bump stocks. <a href="https://t.co/4dF4miFIrZ">pic.twitter.com/4dF4miFIrZ</a>
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1802358369375617192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Murphy went on to attack the court itself, claiming that it was &#8220;becoming brazenly corrupt and brazenly political&#8221; and arguing that there was &#8220;a crisis on the court,&#8221; particularly with respect to conservative Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas.
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“I think there&#8217;s a crisis on the court.”<a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ChrisMurphyCT</a> tells <a href="https://twitter.com/jaketapper?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jaketapper</a> that he believes the Supreme Court “is becoming brazenly corrupt and brazenly political.” <a href="https://t.co/u1ues9TBtY">pic.twitter.com/u1ues9TBtY</a>
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1802359302763467019?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
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On MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Inside With Jen Psaki,&#8221; Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) picked up where Murphy left off, telling the former White House Press Secretary that Congress had to step up and rein in the court with regard to setting a strict code of ethics for the justices.
&#8220;The real problem is that there&#8217;s no binding ethics code on the Supreme Court, so the highest court in the land has the lowest ethical standards,&#8221; Raskin claimed.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RepRaskin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepRaskin</a> on what is possible for SCOTUS reform: &#8220;The real problem is that there&#8217;s no binding ethics code on the Supreme Court, so the highest court in the land has the lowest ethical standards.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/I4y1tFcVMQ">pic.twitter.com/I4y1tFcVMQ</a>
— Inside with Jen Psaki (@InsideWithPsaki) <a href="https://twitter.com/InsideWithPsaki/status/1802391915125473491?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Spin Cycle: SCOTUS ‘Is Out Of Order!’

Spin Cycle: SCOTUS 'Is Out Of Order!'

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/supreme-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Supreme Court</a> struck down a federal ban on bump stocks enacted by the Trump administration on Friday. 
The 6-3 ruling was split along ideological lines. Justice <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/clarence-thomas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clarence Thomas</a> wrote in the majority opinion that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) exceeded its statutory authority when it announced a ban on bump stocks following a 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas. In the ruling, Thomas said that equipping rifles with bump stocks does not turn them into machine guns, meaning they cannot be prohibited under existing law.
“This case asks whether a bump stock — an accessory for a semi-automatic rifle that allows the shooter to rapidly reengage the trigger (and therefore achieve a high rate of fire) — converts the rifle into a ‘machinegun,’” Thomas <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-976_e29g.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in his decision. “We conclude that semiautomatic rifle equipped with a bump stock is not a ‘machinegun’ because it does not fire more than one shot &#8216;by a single function of the trigger.&#8217;”
A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-agrees-to-take-up-challenge-to-trump-era-bump-stock-ban" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bump stock</a> is a device that can be attached to a semi-automatic firearm. It reduces the length of time between trigger pulls by harnessing the gun’s energy from recoil.
Thomas was joined in his decision by Justices John Roberts, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, and Samuel Alito, who wrote a concurring opinion. In his concurrence, Alito said it would require new congressional legislation to ban bump stocks. 
“The horrible shooting spree in Las Vegas in 2017 did not change the statutory text or its meaning. That event demonstrated that a semiautomatic rifle with a bump stock can have the same lethal effect as a machinegun,” Alito wrote. “There is a simple remedy for the disparate treatment of bump stocks and machineguns. Congress can amend the law—and perhaps would have done so already if ATF had stuck with its earlier interpretation.”
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The three liberals on the court, Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson, all dissented. 
The <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rules-gun-bump-stocks-ban-unlawful-rcna154651" target="_blank" rel="noopener">case came</a> to the high court after gun owner Michael Cargill sued the government to reverse the ban after he turned in two of his bump stocks to the feds. 
As the case made its way through the court system, both the 5th and 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the ban. Biden’s Justice Department defended the rule in court after it was implemented by the Trump administration.

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