It is what it is.

Harris is no friend to gun owners. No one can really dispute that in the least. Like her boss, she wants to restrict our right to keep and bear arms. That means groups like the NRA are going to have opinions.

And the NRA, at least, has come out swinging.

Vice President Kamala Harris (D) was supposed to “oversee” the first-ever gun-control department run out of the White House, known as the Office of Gun Violence Prevention. It was founded about a year ago, in September 2023. If Harris has done anything of substance with this gun-control office in the White House, it somehow hasn’t made news.

Ouch.

Also: True.

Still, now that she has been endorsed by President Joe Biden (D) to succeed him, this office offers a window into how she’d treat our Second Amendment-protected rights.

The Biden administration’s press release on the gun-control office calls Harris a “key leader in the Biden-Harris Administration’s effort to end our nation’s gun violence epidemic.”

The rest of the White House gun-control office includes “Stefanie Feldman, a longtime policy advisor to President Biden” on gun-control policy, as well as Greg Jackson, former executive director of the gun-control group Community Justice Action Fund, and Rob Wilcox, who has been the gun-control group Everytown for Gun Safety’s senior director of federal government affairs.

Officially, this White House office overseen by Harris has these goals:

• To ban “assault weapons and high-capacity magazines”
• To require so-called “safe-storage of firearms”
• To require “background checks for all gun sales”
• To eliminate “gun manufacturers’ immunity from liability”
• To “put more police officers on our streets for accountable, community policing and invest in gun violence prevention and intervention”

All of these goals are deceptions.

We've gone over these time and time again, so there's ample reason to see that these are deceptions. They're euphemisms meant to soften and sell anti-gun practices that would never fly if those pushing them were actually honest about them for a change.

But, if you need a refresher, check out the NRA's piece.

Now, hypothetically, someone might say that Harris doesn't actually agree with all of these things, at least not to the degree Biden did. She was just the vice president, so it wasn't her call to determine what the nation's priorities were.

That's true. It's also irrelevant.

It may not have been her call, but if she didn't agree to some degree or another, she wouldn't have been tasked to run things. There were others who would have been happy to fill that role if Harris disagreed. She might not have done it publicly, but she wouldn't have been in that position if she didn't share the sentiments that drove the office's creation and mission.

And yes, she's managed to do nothing at all while running it.

Sure, that's good news for us, but it's also imperative that this gets mentioned during the campaign when she pushes the idea that she's got some kind of anti-gun credentials because of this tasking. She's done nothing at all, so why should get get credit for doing nothing at all?

Unless, of course, she decides to court the pro-gun vote. 

The odds of that happening are only slightly less likely that the ladies of The View becoming sane, rational, and intelligent, and that happens right after my wife gives me the go-ahead to start dating Scarlett Johansson on the side.