Tim Walz’s Faulty Case against Gun Rights

Left unaddressed in the controversy over Walz’s military service is the suggestion that American soldiers carry special ‘weapons of war’ that civilians at home can easily purchase.

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Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota governor Tim Walz speaks during a campaign rally in Las Vegas, Nev., August 10, 2024.

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Tim Walz, Minnesota’s governor and Kamala Harris’s choice as her vice-presidential running mate, declared in 2018, “We can make sure that those weapons of war, that I carried in war, is [sic] the only place where those weapons are at.”

It is now clear that Walz lied when he claimed to have carried any weapon “in war.” The Washington Post “fact-checker” found it to be “false.” Walz never got near a combat zone during his military service. The Harris-Walz campaign finally admitted that the claim was untrue but tried to spin it by saying that Walz “misspoke” — as if the fraud was inadvertent.

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Robert F. Turner

A veteran of two Army tours of duty in Vietnam, Robert F. Turner served as the first president of the congressionally established United States Institute of Peace during the Reagan administration and then co-taught an interdisciplinary postgraduate seminar on “New Thinking About War & Peace” at the University of Virginia for more than two decades. The opinions expressed here are personal.

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