Can we just say it? Kamala Harris’s VP pick, Tim Walz, is as big a disappointment as Harris herself is.
Which is a pretty extraordinary statement if you know how terrible Harris has been on every issue.
Since we’re talking about firearms here, though, we’ll stick with focusing on how bad Walz is on that subject, despite his claims to the contrary.
Now, if you haven’t been keeping up with the 2024 Presidential campaigns from both parties, then, you may not know that Walz has been trying to play up his time in the National Guard, and, to be fair, he served in the guard for over 20 years. Nothing wrong there.
But when you get into the details about what he says about that time and what the truth is about that time, that’s when it gets… complicated.
For example, Walz likes to say that he knows about firearms because of his time in the National Guard. But, then, he says that everyday citizens like you and me shouldn’t have “weapons of war” like an AR-15. The very fact that he calls an AR-15 a weapon of war shows how little that he actually knows about guns. Or it shows how little that he cares about the Constitution and the truth.
Julio Rosas writes,
Aside from putting in his retirement paperwork after it became clear his unit was going to be deployed to Iraq, Walz has also suggested in some of his remarks that he was in combat, even though he was not, and said he retired as a command sergeant major when, in reality, he retired as a master sergeant.
The Minnesota National Guard explained “because he did not complete additional coursework at the U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy,” Walz was unable to retain the higher rank when he retired.
On the Harris’ campaign website page that introduced Walz as her running mate, the post repeated the false rank he retired as: “The son of an Army veteran and a retired Command Sergeant Major in the Army National Guard himself.” The Harris campaign has since corrected the sentence to have his true rank.
In a video promoted by the Harris campaign, Walz previously told a crowd while advocating for gun control that “we can make sure those weapons of war, that I carried in war, are only carried in war.”
Sounds impressive, right? One problem, though: Walz never carried a weapon in war.
Not once.
And FactCheck.org confirms that Walz never carried a weapon in war when they were reviewing Trump V.P. pick J.D. Vance’s comments about Walz on this issue.
So, what weapons is he talking about? His car keys while he was deployed in Italy? Pretty dangerous there sipping lattes and viewing art, I’m sure.
Frankly, it sounds like Kamala Harris has taken as her running mate someone who, like her current/previous boss (depending on your point of view), Joe Biden, has difficulty telling the truth.
And, then, is trying to take our Second Amendment rights with those “untruths.”
How pathetic.
The American people should not buy into the Tim Walz gun control hype. It’s all bluster and nonsense.
