Kamala Harris' recent statement that “my values haven't changed” has led critics to question what else she still supports beyond taxpayer-funded sex reassignment for illegal immigrants, repealing the Hyde Amendment, and legalizing crack cocaine for personal consumption.
Just days after investigators uncovered footage of Harris threatening to raid the homes of law-abiding Americans and conduct random gun checks, CNN analyst Steven Gutowski Highlight Harris' support for a handgun ban.
Gutowski unearthed the San Jose Mercury News from November 2005.
article It was sponsored by then-Attorney General Kamala Harris of San Francisco. Proposal H — An ordinance banning the manufacture, distribution, sale and transfer of handguns in San Francisco.
“For robbers, rapists and home intruders, the next victim is sure to be a helpless human being.”
Had the ban not been struck down by the courts after it was passed, the only people who would have had guns would have been security guards, police officers, active duty U.S. military personnel, and criminals. After all, everyone was required to turn in their weapons by April 1, 2006, and they received no compensation for doing so.
In a voter information pamphlet, the Anti-Prohibition Coalition emphasized that the proposal supported by Harris would deny Americans the choice to protect themselves and others.
“You may never need a gun to protect yourself, but someone else does: a solo woman whose apartment is broken into, a gay man surrounded by assailants, or a battered wife pursued by a stalker,” the coalition wrote. “Proposition H makes crime more likely. Burglars, rapists, and intruders can be sure that their next victim will be helpless.”
“The sponsors of this failure are ill-prepared. California's longstanding gun laws prohibit cities from passing a patchwork of conflicting gun laws. If Proposition H passes, San Francisco will have to pay costly legal costs that it will lose,” the coalition said.
Critics of the gun control bills supported by Harris also pointed out that murders continue to soar in Washington, D.C., despite similar efforts being made there.
Republicans who oppose gun control legislation supported by Harris quipped that she would “sell a bridge to anyone who believes criminals will surrender their guns.”
“One of the first laws enacted by the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazis) was to ban private ownership of guns,” the San Francisco Republican Party noted at the time.
A group of gays, lesbians and transvestites known as the “Pink Pistols” similarly denounced the ban, arguing that it would leave them cowering in their homes and “unable to stop attacks that harm their friends and family.”
Gun control was scheduled to go into effect in January 2006, but the National Rifle Association and others
Legal challengespostpone its implementation for a long period of time, San Francisco County Superior Court Judge James Warren Appointed to the bench by former Republican Governor Pete Wilson, he repealed the ban in June 2006. show It was “supervised and invalid by state law.”
But Harris did not back down in her efforts to disarm Americans.
“I support a mandatory gun buyback program.”
In 2008, she served as one of the left-leaning district attorneys.
Amicus curiae In Second Amendment cases DC v. HellerThey argued that a total ban on handguns is constitutional. Reasons: attention The brief in which Harris participated also suggested that the Second Amendment does not guarantee individual rights, but rather “collective” or “militia-related” rights.
Harris
said In September 2019, before her last failed presidential campaign, she told reporters that she supported a mandatory buyback of so-called assault weapons.
“We need to have a gun buyback program. I support a mandatory gun buyback program,” Harris said.
said “We have to do it smartly and we have to do it the right way. But 5 million [assault weapons] “Some estimate it's at least 10 million. We need smart public policies in the right way to get these people off the streets.”
“We're not going to take away anyone's guns.”
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Harris' campaign website She has suggested that if elected, she would “support red flag laws that would ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, require universal background checks and keep guns out of the hands of civilians.” Dangerous people”
Harris has waged a decades-long campaign to disarm law-abiding Americans, but in recent years she has increasingly portrayed herself as a supporter of gun rights, telling Oprah Winfrey at a rally last week, “If someone breaks into my house, they're going to get shot.”
the Unknown at this time Whether the guns Harris allegedly owns are the kinds of guns she has tried to ban in the past.
“Some people are really arguing for a false choice, suggesting that you either support the Second Amendment or you want to take away everyone's guns,” Harris said. “I support the Second Amendment, and I also support banning assault weapons, universal background checks and red flag laws.”
“We're not taking away anybody's guns,” Harris argued during a debate with President Donald Trump earlier this month.
Gutowski noted that the Harris campaign did not respond to a request for comment on the handgun ban.
The National Rifle Association's Legislative Action Institute noted in July that “gun owners should understand that Ms. Harris represents the most serious threat to their Second Amendment rights. Indeed, Ms. Harris' record shows that she believes the Second Amendment does not protect an individual's right to keep and bear firearms at all. Moreover, Ms. Harris has repeatedly called for the government to confiscate some of the most popular firearms in America.”
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