A stunning video from 2007 featuring then San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris threatening to enter the locked homes of gun owners to determine whether their firearms were “safely” stored is facing heavy criticism from gun rights advocates.
Harris, flanked by then-San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, told reporters during a press conference about gun control, “Just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn’t mean that we’re not going to walk into that home and check to see if you’re being responsible and safe in the way you conduct your affairs.”
The 15-second video resurfaced on the “Trump War Room” site at “X” (formerly Twitter), and was quickly reported by the Daily Mail. Trump War Room called Harris an “anti-gun RADICAL.”
Kamala: “Just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn’t mean that we’re not going to walk into that home and check to see if you’re being responsible.”
She’s an anti-gun RADICAL. pic.twitter.com/CTcyGgrJEf
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 18, 2024
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms issued a scathing statement, “Taken at face value, this remark underscores our contention that she has been an anti-gun extremist throughout her political career.”
CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb said the remarks revealed Harris’ disdain for the Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures “if it stands in the way of her gun prohibition agenda.”
As noted by the Daily Mail, “Harris voiced her threat to check on gun owners even after Newsom argued earlier in the press conference that the legislation would not allow law enforcement to knock on everyone’s doors to make sure they were following the law.”
Her comments reinforce the notion that Harris has been a gun control fanatic since her early career. She quickly rose to become a state lawmaker, then California Attorney General, and eventually a U.S. Senator representing the Golden State after the departure of former Senator Barbara Boxer. In 2019-20, she conducted a short-lived campaign for president, bowing out before the primaries, but was picked to be Joe Biden’s running mate.
While she was attorney general, Harris was named in at least two gun rights lawsuits involving the Second Amendment Foundation.
During her brief run for the presidency in 2019, Harris suggested mandatory buybacks of so-called “assault weapons,” which many grassroots activists immediately translated to “compensated confiscation.” Although her campaign has been trying to walk back that position, Harris—much like her current boss—is letting her own words get in her way.
Earlier this summer, Harris sat down with a panel at a meeting of the National Association of Black Journalists, stating, “Yes, I am a gun owner and Tim Walz is a gun owner, and we’re not trying to take anyone’s guns away from them,” immediately adding, “But we do need an assault weapons ban.” This remark comes at about the 33-minute mark of the interview, which may be viewed on YouTube.
Even the National Shooting Sports Foundation took her to task for her remarks about gun prohibition, noting that modern semiautomatic rifles are the most popular rifle platform in America today.
The resurfaced video only adds to a growing list of criticisms against the vice president from CCRKBA in recent weeks. Following a school shooting in Georgia during which armed school resource officers confronted and arrested the teen killer, Gottlieb recalled how Harris in 2019 had opposed the use of SROs, claiming she wanted to “demilitarize” school campuses.
“Kamala Harris was wrong about removing armed school resource officers,” he stated earlier this month. “It’s time for the media to end its love fest with the vice president and start looking at what else she’s been wrong about.”
In July, CCRKBA came out swinging when Biden bowed out of the race—most conservative pundits said he was pushed out by high-ranking Capitol Hill Democrats afraid for their own jobs and fearful of losing party power—and Harris stepped in, having never won a primary during her presidential runs.
Declaring Harris to be even “more radical than Joe on guns,” Gottlieb said at the time, “For the past several months, she’s been over-seeing the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, which is a thinly-disguised, first-of-its-kind mini-bureaucracy established by this administration to generate restrictive gun control policies which are pushed in states controlled by Democrat administrations.”
He described Harris as “an anti-gun-rights extremist whose ultimate goal is to reduce the fundamental right protected by the Second Amendment to nothing more than a government-regulated privilege.”
A new Rasmussen poll released Thursday shows Harris has more troubles with voters than just her zeal for gun prohibition. In the wake of the highly-criticized debate between Harris and Donald Trump, Rasmussen pollsters found that 49 percent of likely voters would vote for the former president, while 47 percent favor Harris.
Breaking things down, Rasmussen is reporting, “Trump benefits from greater intensity among Republican voters, while Harris appears to have gained ground among independents…Eighty-five percent (85%) of Republicans choose Trump and 80% of Democrats pick Harris. Among voters not affiliated with either major party, Trump gets 49% to Harris’s 45%. In last week’s survey, Trump led by 12 points among unaffiliated voters.”
Rasmussen also says, “The “gender gap” continues to be a significant factor in the presidential contest, as Trump leads by nine points among men, 52% to 43%, while Harris has a five-point lead with women voters, 50% to 45%.”
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