By now you've probably heard about Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris's ultimatum to Congress: "Act to restrict gun rights within the first 100 days of my presidency, or I'll do it myself."
"Upon being elected I will give the United States Congress 100 days to get their act together and have the courage to pass reasonable gun safety laws. And if they fail to do it, then I will take executive action," Harris told a CNN town hall in New Hampshire. "And specifically what I will do is put in place a requirement that for anyone who sells more than five guns a year, they are required to do background checks when they sell those guns. I will require that for any gun dealer that breaks the law the ATF take their license."
The fact that the Harris believes such an egregious act of executive overreach is even plausible shows how far we've gone down the road to authoritarianism.
The Founders believed that power corrupts, so they separated the functions of the national government into executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
Restrictions on gun ownership fall squarely within the purview of the legislative branch. Congress is the only body with the power to create laws like background checks and firearms bans, and the White House is empowered only to execute those laws.
But years of bad Supreme Court decisions and an explosive growth of the federal bureaucratic state have blurred the boundaries outlined in the Constitution. Now Presidents of both parties believe they have the right to create laws with their "pens and phones," totally disregarding the separation of powers that have acted as a guard against tyranny.
The only way to change a Supreme Court decision is with another decision or with a constitutional amendment. The court is unlikely to roll back over 100 years of activist decisions, so the American people are left with only one option: an Article V Convention of States.
A Convention of States is called and controlled by the states and has the power to propose constitutional amendments that restore the Founders' vision of the federal government. These amendments can clarify that federal agencies do not have the power to create laws, and that all laws (especially those that restrict constitutional rights) must be passed through the representatives of the people in Congress.
The system in D.C. is broken. Elections won't change that. It's time to get to the root of the problem, and we can do it with an Article V Convention of States.
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