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Kamala Harris

Kamala Harris Now on Senate Judiciary Committee; Bad News for Second Amendment

The former California attorney general has a long history of hostility to Second Amendment rights.

Brian Doherty | 1.9.2018 4:15 PM

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Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) was named to the Senate Judiciary Committee today. What might that mean moving forward for the Senate's attitude toward potential legislation effecting the Second Amendment? Nothing great.

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Gun rights advocates often raise the specter of armed state agents going door to door to confiscate firearms. Kamala Harris helped make that worst-case-scenario a reality in California. Her attorney general's office presided over California's Armed Prohibited Persons System, which spent at least $24 million sending police to citizens' homes to take away weapons.

The target of this "common sense gun control" measure: people who had once been legal gun owners, but had since lost their right to own a firearm due an ever-expanding definition of unfitness, which includes having committed certain crimes, falling under a restraining order, or being adjudicated mentally ill. (The state's databases of these failings are known to be highly unreliable.)

In April 2017, California was forced to return 500 weapons it had illegally confiscated from one citizen in 2015 under Harris' aggressive implementation of that program. Despite the fact that she never demonstrated any concrete threat from the over 18,000 citizens who received visits from her agents and had property taken from them, Harris proudly announced that "removing firearms from dangerous and violent individuals makes our communities safer."

As attorney general, Harris tried to ensure that people couldn't get carry permits for weapons in California merely for reasons as petty, to her mind, as that they felt they needed one. She has fought in court to ensure that only police officials should be able to decide whether a citizen can defend himself outside his home. She got sued in 2016 in her former capacity as California attorney general for her office's policies toward open public carrying of weapons.

Her general attitude about gun possession and gun law—despite the fact that she is a senator of a state where gun ownership continues to climb even as violent crime has dropped faster than the national average—is that gun policy should be dictated by how comfortable you feel after looking at autopsy photos of the children murdered at Sandy Hook elementary school. Literally. Speaking in October 2015 at "Politicon" in Los Angeles she advised that before any vote related to gun control or gun rights "They should have closed the chambers of Congress, on the House and the Senate side, and said all you members go in there, only you, and spread out the autopsy photos of those babies and require them to look at those photographs. And then vote your conscience."

Harris is so uncomfortable with the Second Amendment she's willing to jab at the First Amendment while hobbling it, as shown by her support as California's attorney general for a state law restricting how handgun sellers can advertise. She so delights in pettily bedeviling gun owners that her department in California tried to enforce restrictions on how many guns could be purchased per month by those who hold certain special collectors' licenses even though both the letter of the law and previous practice said they were exempt, and stuck to her lack of principle on the issue until she got sued over it in 2014.

In rhetoric and action, Harris is especially proud of her role as someone out to keep more guns out of more people's hands for any reason, legal or not, constitutional or not. It's a bit disheartening to see on the Senate Judiciary Committee someone with a specific, lengthy, and proud record of literally taking legally purchased guns from Americans via armed agents going door to door.

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Brian Doherty is a senior editor at Reason and author of Ron Paul's Revolution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired (Broadside Books).

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  1. BestUsedCarSales   7 years ago

    She has fought in court to ensure that only police officials should be able to decide whether a citizen can defend himself outside his home.

    Those are the exact people we need guns to protect ourselves from.

    1. Rebel Scum   7 years ago

      They seem to forget the "bear" part of keep and bear.

    2. Wanderer   7 years ago

      Spot on

      The first 2 amendments are some of the strongest backbone sof US freedom, and the second amendment was precisely directed against the Kamala Harrises of the XVIII century

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  2. Citizen X - #6   7 years ago

    Christ, what an asshole.

    1. BestUsedCarSales   7 years ago

      Would it change your mind to know that in that picture she's standing in front of the destruction caused by just one (1) hand gun?

      1. Citizen X - #6   7 years ago

        I am stating a fact.

      2. $park? leftist poser   7 years ago

        Hand guns are like those petite crazy chics that once they get set off don't stop until everything around them is wasted.

        1. Chipper Morning Baculum   7 years ago

          Ex-wife?

      3. Unicorn Abattoir   7 years ago

        What type of gun handgun did that, and where can I buy one?

      4. Fat Hubie   7 years ago

        What kind? I want one!

        1. Cloudbuster   7 years ago

          It was this WMD.

        2. Brett Bellmore   7 years ago

          Clearly it was the Nuke .50 BMG.

  3. Enjoy Every Sandwich   7 years ago

    Speaking in October 2015 at "Politicon" in Los Angeles she advised that before any vote related to gun control or gun rights "They should have closed the chambers of Congress, on the House and the Senate side, and said all you members go in there, only you, and spread out the autopsy photos of those babies and require them to look at those photographs. And then vote your conscience."

    And my conscience would tell me that citizens have the right to be armed to prevent such a thing from happening. It's a crime that the adults at Sandy Hook had nothing but their bare hands to defend those children with.

    1. Rebel Scum   7 years ago

      And then vote your conscience.

      It is my understanding that they swear an oath to the document that created the government. That is the only consideration to be had.

    2. Brandybuck   7 years ago

      Do the same thing for aborted fetuses and I GUARANTEE you that Harris would be in the front of the rage pack over it.

    3. Wanderer   7 years ago

      Pictures of dead babies !

      Is she a closet pro-lifer ?

  4. Rebel Scum   7 years ago

    The former California attorney general has a long history of hostility to Second Amendment all rights.

    1. Elias Fakaname   7 years ago

      I'm sure she champions Tony's right to fuck underage teenage boys.

  5. Hugh Akston   7 years ago

    She so delights in pettily bedeviling gun owners that her department in California tried to enforce restrictions on how many guns could be purchased per month by those who hold certain special collectors' licenses even though both the letter of the law and previous practice said they were exempt, and stuck to her lack of principle on the issue until she got sued over it in 2014.

    It doesn't sound to me like she lacks principles so much as she adheres to terrible principles.

  6. esteve7   7 years ago

    My proggy friends are praising Kamala Harris just like they praised Obama. Both were nobodies before they said a bunch of far left crap and won over lefties hearts with a bunch of emotional rhetoric that wouldn't pass a basic logic class.

    1. Brandybuck   7 years ago

      Welcome to California. Kamala actually makes me long for a return of Boxer. Sigh.

    2. Longtobefree   7 years ago

      Congratulations; you just put lefties and logic in the same sentence. Please take one of those basic logic classes.

  7. Rhywun   7 years ago

    Wow, she's far worse than I thought. AKA a "rising star".

  8. JoeBlow123   7 years ago

    Free publicity. Who cares who she is?

    You are falling into the Trump Trap. Free publicity to loons, publicity makes loons famous, loons become more powerful, more publicity on the loon, and the cycle continues.

    BREAK THE WHEEL!!! Free yourself.

  9. Rebel Scum   7 years ago

    My comment was eaten. Let's try this again.

    The target of this "common sense gun control" measure

    The only "common sense" measure is to use both hands. Incidentally, I typically assume that people who use "common sense" to describe their ideas have no legitimate supporting argument. I find this holds particularly true in the gun control arena. The historical/constitutional argument always wins. Just start citing the federalist papers until they give up or lose their minds.

  10. Marcus Aurelius   7 years ago

    California can't seceed fast enough...

    1. Elias Fakaname   7 years ago

      No. They are welcome to leave. CA is ours. No progressive gets to keep one square inch of American soil.

    2. Get To Da Chippah   7 years ago

      The U.S. needs to come up with a method to eject states rather than wait for them to secede.

  11. Telcontar the Wanderer   7 years ago

    Before voting on whether to reinstitute alcohol prohibition, I want you all to look at these autopsy photos of children killed by drunk driving accidents.

    Before voting on whether to crack down on prescription opioids, I want you all to look at these autopsy photos of grandfathers killed by overdoses.

    Before voting on whether to expand the TSA's security duties, I want you all to look at these photos of people jumping from the WTC during the 9/11 attacks.

    Before voting on whether to ban prostitution, I want you all to look at these evidence photos of women raped by their pimps.

    Before voting on whether to censor hate speech, I want you all to look at these photos of children killed in concentration camps...

    The only thing more enraging than the non-existent logic of this woman's arguments is the uniform non-scrutiny with which they will be met by the pseudo-intellectual rabble that dares to have the gall to style itself the Party of Science...

    1. Unicorn Abattoir   7 years ago

      Before you vote on global warming legislation, I want you all to look at these photos of pristine, sandy beaches...

      1. Longtobefree   7 years ago

        Not to mention the recent NPR photos of the snow covered Sahara -- -- --

  12. OpenBordersLiberal-tarian   7 years ago

    Kamala Harris was in my top 3 2020 Presidential hopefuls, but reading this has made her fly past Elizabeth Warren and Kirsten Gillibrand and secure the clear #1 position. You older libertarians need to realize that young people like me are attracted to the movement because of its stances on immigration and reproductive rights, but that its dogmatic view on "Second Amendment rights" is a major turnoff. The sooner the libertarian movement distances itself from the NRA, the better.

    1. Migrant Log Chipper   7 years ago

      FOAD, you douchebag. >>>>>>DU is that way, you should not be anywhere near anything libertarian.

      1. Morbo   7 years ago

        It's a parody account, dude. It amazes me how many people around here fall for it.

        1. Elias Fakaname   7 years ago

          Yeah, a little too garishly over the top. Kind of like the way Aaron Soorkin when he writes dialogue he thinks real conservatives would say.

    2. Longtobefree   7 years ago

      Lead me through the logic, o wise young one.
      Here is the text:
      A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

      Historical hint: A militia is a military unit formed entirely of individual volunteers who have submitted to orders of the military only for a designated period of time, or in a designated place. They supply their own weapons. (The second part is key)

      Now explain how a party founded on individual freedom and the constitution should not be dogmatic about individual freedom and the constitution.

      1. Unicorn Abattoir   7 years ago

        I think your sarcometer may need to be recalibrated.

  13. Robert   7 years ago

    spread out the autopsy photos of those babies and require them to look at those photographs.

    Suckling long pig?delicious!

  14. mpercy   7 years ago

    Harris supports California's Armed Prohibited Persons System, but god help us if someone is asked to show a valid ID to help prevent prohibited persons from voting.

    1. uunderstand   7 years ago

      If it wasn't for incomprehensible positions, the progs would have no positions at all.

    2. Wanderer   7 years ago

      Good point

    3. shawn_dude   7 years ago

      ::yawn::

      It's the hypocrisy tit-for-tat game!

      Republicans believe former felons shouldn't get the right to vote back after serving their time but do believe they should be handed a gun.

  15. PaulTheBeav   7 years ago

    She would have made a good noble. She knows that the law is just for us peasants. She's above that sort of thing.

  16. tlapp   7 years ago

    Our government is based on "We the People" why would WE give up our guns and only allow our employees to have them.

  17. loveconstitution1789   7 years ago

    People like Kamala Harris should be hauled out of their Congressional office for violating their oath of office and the US Constitution.

    2nd Amendment:
    A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

    1. shawn_dude   7 years ago

      You can't go buy a nuclear bomb, right? Isn't that an infringement on your right to keep and bear arms?

      Every single politician in Congress supports limits on the sorts of arms people can own. So the question isn't whether limits are acceptable but where to draw the line.

      Saying people who have demonstrated, to a judge, the inability to be a responsible gun owner shouldn't have guns seems fairly uncontroversial.

      1. Telcontar the Wanderer   7 years ago

        Every single politician in Congress can go fuck themselves with a freshly sharpened claymore to the hilt, and no one "bears" a nuke- it covers handheld weapons only. And a rocket launcher can't kill more people than a French ice-cream truck, so no, no limits are acceptable.

        Have fun letting judges take the right to abort, marry, travel and vote from people who have "demonstrated the inability to be a responsible aborter/spouse/traveller/voter".

        1. loveconstitution1789   7 years ago

          "it covers handheld weapons only."

          Actually the 2nd Amendment does not limit keeping and bearing arms to handheld weapons only.

          Quite a few families owned cannons that they rented out to the Continental Army.

          1. Hank Phillips   7 years ago

            2A also protects the right of States to set up nuclear antimissile systems. The SALT and ABM treaties with the Soviet Union need to be lit with a match. Search "Constitutionality of the ABM Treaty" and you'll find Socialists have no problem with the Commander-in-Chief surrendering unconditionally to communist invaders, but object to any presidential action against treaties that violate the Bill of Rights.

      2. loveconstitution1789   7 years ago

        "Every single politician in Congress supports limits on the sorts of arms people can own. So the question isn't whether limits are acceptable but where to draw the line."
        Well, it should not be up to Congress to decide what and what is not acceptable under the 2nd Amendment. The whole point of the BoR is to prevent government from "interpreting" what the 1st and 2nd Amendments "mean", so they can undermine your rights.

        But yes, every American should be able to build and/or buy nuclear weapons. Good luck with that.

      3. Hank Phillips   7 years ago

        Shawn should amend the Constitution to say what he wants to hear. Conservatives hear the First Amendment saying kicking in doors is "the free exercise" of their mystical pseudoscience, and lay socialists hear it saying to exact a Carbon Tax as sacrifice to Goddess Gaia. Maybe another Kristallnacht religion would do the trick for disarming voters.

      4. TrickyVic (old school)   7 years ago

        ""You can't go buy a nuclear bomb, right? Isn't that an infringement on your right to keep and bear arms?""

        No, A bomb is not consider an "arms"

  18. shawn_dude   7 years ago

    "...people who had once been legal gun owners, but had since lost their right to own a firearm due an ever-expanding definition of unfitness, which includes having committed certain crimes, falling under a restraining order, or being adjudicated mentally ill."

    You try to make this sound horrible, but this really outs you as a fear monger on this issue.

    - Committed 'certain' crimes = people who committed violent crimes and have proven they aren't responsible shouldn't have legal access to guns.

    - falling under a restraining order = people who meet the requirement for a protective restraining order (stalkers, abusive spouses, etc) shouldn't have legal access to weapons. They've been shown, to a judge, to be enough of a risk that their free movement civil rights should be temporarily curtailed.

    - Mentally ill = mentally ill. Seriously. Mentally ill people shouldn't have guns.

    What do you do when someone has gone through a fair judicial process and been designated unfit to own a gun? If they have guns, they need to relinquish them. That's simple enough.

    What do people who advocate for unlimited access to weapons say when crazy people shoot up women's clinics or slaughter guests at a country and western concert in Vegas? "People like that shouldn't have guns." But the next step in that logic is to define "people like that," ensure they get an opportunity to defend their right in court, and then remove the guns for those that lose the right.

    1. mad.casual   7 years ago

      But the next step in that logic is to define "people like that," ensure they get an opportunity to defend their right in court, and then remove the guns for those that lose the right.

      And by "people like that" you mean "poor minorities". Seriously, I'm pretty racist but the fact that white leftists keep proposing this shit like it doesn't observably and documentably lead to minorities being stripped of their rights and even jailed for non-crimes at disproportionate rates makes the old "blacks are inferior because phrenology" racists look objective and impartial.

    2. Telcontar the Wanderer   7 years ago

      What do people who advocate for unlimited access to weapons say when crazy people shoot up women's clinics or slaughter guests at a country and western concert in Vegas? "People like that shouldn't have guns."

      No, we don't. We say that they "should", because as Nice, Bataclan, Oslo, Brussels, Manchester, and a dozen other mass-caj attacks in Europe have shown, "crazy people" are the one group that are almost completely immune to the State's prohibitions. People who already plan to die or go to prison for the rest of their lives tend not to be fazed by threats of prison time. Shocking, I know.

      And, yes, the next step in that "logic" is to define "people like that", etc.- which is exactly why that illogic needs to be stopped in its tracks, for the same reason that censorship of hate speech and restrictions on immigration or narcotics need to be: because you aren't smart enough to define them.

      Your list is a classic example: you use these words- "committed violent crimes"; "mentally ill"; "opportunity to defend their right"; "designated unfit"; "fair"- as if they have objective definitions. But no word has an objective definition! You think "mentally ill" means violent schizos, but in practice it will mean people with OCD or anxiety issues; you think "opportunity" means an impartial court and judge, but it will actually mean the whim of a sheriff. (cont.)

      1. Telcontar the Wanderer   7 years ago

        (cont.)

        Perhaps the biggest problem in your assertions is your assumption that courts are actually fair; that the wise latter-day Solomons up on the bench can be trusted to find the "right way of doing things". But applying this to any other activity reveals its ignorant bigotry: imagine if anyone who wrote a critical article about their congressman was subjected to a fair judicial process, given an opportunity to defend their right in court, and then had their article removed if they lost that right. Let's say that it's the same judges you were going to use for those "unfit" gun owners. And then let's apply that same system to abortions. And marijuana use. And marriage. And travel between states. And voting...

        You are right about one thing, though; it is "simple". The problem is that the presumptuousness of your musings and the all-too-material policies they lead to is the only simple element in the equation. The pluses and minuses of guns in a household? The wisdom of the state officials, frocked and otherwise, assigned to the determining of such? The capacity of the state to actually enforce their policy, and the collateral damage and expenditures resultant from the enforcement? Those aren't simple. Any more than the price of a loaf of bread in Caracas is. And the best way to manage a complex system... Is to let it manage itself.

        So fuck off.

  19. Rockabilly   7 years ago

    Fuck comrade Kamala Harris and her fucking marxist agenda.

    fuck off !!!

  20. Presskh   7 years ago

    This is the result of so many stupid Alabamians falling for the last-minute, made-up smear campaign against Roy Moore. Losing this seat to Jones resulted in replacing a Republican on the Judiciary Committee with this left-wing POS. I hope those in other states remember this and don't repeat the mistake of so many dumb-ass Alabamians in the 2018 midterms - ALL THAT REALLY MATTERS IS HOW A CANDIDATE WILL VOTE ON IMPORTANT ISSUES. I live in Alabama, by the way.

    1. Hank Phillips   7 years ago

      Somebody fetch this poor mistreated Alabaman a butthurt form to fill out!

  21. California Right To Carry   7 years ago

    This is the problem with left-wing libertarians. All that dope smoking clouds their brains. The CRPA never sued Kamala Harris over the right to Open Carry back in 2016. I am the only one who sued her and my lawsuit was filed in 2011. My claim, in Nichols v. Brown, is that Open Carry is the right guaranteed by the Constitution. The NRA/CRPA argument in Flanagan v. Harris is that California can ban Open Carry in favor of concealed carry and therefore they are entitled to concealed carry permits. Sound familiar? It should as it was the same nonsensical argument they made in their failed Peruta v. San Diego lawsuit.

    1. Hank Phillips   7 years ago

      "Right-wing" only has meaning as an euphemism for religious socialists (fascists). Left-wing libertarians are in the same zoo as perpetual motion machines, Muslim atheists and results of division by zero, since the qualifier only serves to identify the socialist laity.

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  23. Hank Phillips   7 years ago

    It is Republican votebait doublethink to imagine Kamala can do anything to jeopardize the Second Amendment. Much more dangerous is her belief in Misanthropic Global Warming, a religion that has visions of temperature data trendlines reversing the sign of their first derivative by priestly Transubstantiation or "rectification." This, the Faithful declare, must be backed by using deadly force against "deniers" (raw data advocates), an act which THEIR First Amendment defines as "the free exercise thereof."

  24. Lester224   7 years ago

    What's with so much attention paid to Kamala Harris? Is she a big deal now?

  25. American Veteran Patroit   7 years ago

    This wacko liberal piece of debris more useless then obozo & carter melded into one person. She is a threat to good order the country. It's her agenda or nothing, plus she is a lousy attorney!

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