“What if we tweaked the Constitution, amended the Second Amendment, and instead of the right to bear arms, we change it to the right to have healthcare?” That is not a college activist. That is Abdul El-Sayed — the Democratic nominee for United States Senate in Michigan — talking into his own camera, on his own channel. And it is one of many videos that he quietly made private from his channel once he decided he wanted a seat in the world’s most powerful legislative body.
A U.S. Senate nominee from one of the two major national parties, who has a legitimate chance to win, actively floated the idea of replacing the Second Amendment — not merely regulating it, which would be bad enough.
This is not your typical anti-gun Democrat rhetoric. This is a dangerous and new precedent coming from far-left Democrats. They realize the courts are increasingly unwilling to permit them to regulate our right to keep and bear arms. Just recently, in ANJRPC v. Attorney General of New Jersey, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled that New Jersey’s ban on “assault weapons” and “high-capacity magazines” was unconstitutional. And in June, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to Cook County, Illinois’ ban on “assault weapons” and Connecticut’s ban on “high-capacity magazines” under Viramontes.
However, Michiganders see through this charade. The infamous gun control group Moms Demand Action has endorsed El-Sayed. Moms Demand Action is the grassroots arm of Everytown for Gun Safety, an anti-gun organization whose one of its stated goals is to ban the most popular semi-automatic sporting rifle in America. And Michiganders know that El-Sayed is in favor of most, if not all, the policy objectives stated by Everytown for Gun Safety.
In his 2018 run for governor of Michigan, El-Sayed supported an “assault weapons” ban, backed red flag laws and embraced a host of other anti-gun positions. The video in question is not the story — the video is the confession that explains the agenda. El-Sayed’s campaign responded to a CNN article about the deleted videos by saying, “Cherry-picked comments from old podcasts don’t reflect his beliefs today.” But he never wanted nor expected these comments to surface — that’s why he tried to hide the video. When recently pressed by Jesse Watters at Fox on his comments to abolish the Second Amendment, El-Sayed dodged the question by claiming “people are more worried about whether or not they can see a doctor than whether or not they can have a gun.” It would seem that CNN in fact did not cherry-pick comments.
Time and time again, El-Sayed continues to prove to his future constituents that he would rather spill socialist talking points and implement a socialist agenda by decimating the U.S. Constitution. His goal is to erase any kind of national pride, the rights of Americans and the culture that makes this country the greatest in the history of the world. Electing someone like this to the United States Senate is dangerous and reckless.
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Plus, his most recent endorsement proves that El-Sayed intends to undermine Michiganders’ Second Amendment rights. Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords — infamous for calling for “no more guns” — along with her gun control group, just endorsed El-Sayed. In fact, in Giffords’ announcement of El-Sayed’s endorsement, El-Sayed himself said, “it’s an honor to receive the endorsement of Giffords PAC.” This is not the statement from a candidate who supposedly regrets calling for the abolition of the Second Amendment.
Anti-gunners like El-Sayed are terrified that by June 2027, the Supreme Court is likely to strike down these “assault weapon” bans as unconstitutional. This is apparently forcing candidates like El-Sayed and even California Governor Gavin Newsom, who wish to enact gun control, into taking the unprecedented stance that the Second Amendment needs to be repealed or replaced.
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El-Sayed’s campaign accuses CNN of cherry-picking the coverage of this story. Remember, he did not delete the video in question. He only set it to private. Here is what makes this more than a slip from an old podcast.
Repealing a constitutional amendment requires 2/3 of both chambers of Congress and 38 states. It’s not going to happen. However, a senator confirms judges who interpret the Constitution. Every federal judge, circuit nominee and Supreme Court justice for the next six years runs through the chamber El-Sayed wants to join. A man who believes the Second Amendment protects nothing but state militias, does not need to repeal a single word. He only needs to vote, repeatedly, for anti-gun judges.
For 30 years, gun control groups told us they only wanted “common sense” restrictions on the Second Amendment. Now that the courts are enforcing the right to bear arms as written, we are suddenly hearing that the Second Amendment itself should go. They are losing the argument about the Constitution — and their answer is to change the Constitution.
So Mr. El-Sayed: be transparent with the voters you’re asking to hire you. On camera, in your own words, tell Michigan that you oppose an “assault weapons” ban. Until then, the video you made private stands as your truth.