Kommie Harris once said police could pay surprise visits to legal gun owners' homes for safe storage checks

[Kyle]

Kamala Harris once said police could pay surprise visits to legal gun owners' homes for safe storage checks


'Tim Walz and I are both gun owners. We're not taking anybody's guns away,' says Vice President Kamala Harris


As San Francisco's district attorney, Kamala Harris told legal gun owners in her community that authorities could "walk into" their homes to inspect whether they were storing their firearms properly under a new law she helped draft.

"We're going to require responsible behaviors among everybody in the community, and 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," Harris told a group of reporters in May 2007.

The remarks came during a press conference introducing legislation that Harris helped draft, which sought to impose penalties for gun owners who fail to store their firearms properly at home.

The bill, which at the time had just been introduced to the city's board of supervisors, was ultimately signed into law a few months later by then-San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. It was bundled with other gun control provisions, including a new requirement for legal gun distributors to submit an inventory to the chief of police every six months, and a ban on possessing guns – even legally – in public housing.

"San Francisco now has the strictest anti-gun laws in the county," Newsom said when he signed the new laws.

Kamala Harris once said police could pay surprise visits to legal gun owners' homes for safe storage checks

As San Francisco's district attorney, Kamala Harris told legal gun owners in her community that authorities could "walk into" their homes to inspect whether they were storing their firearms properly under a new law she helped draft.

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This provision is likely going to get major pushback.

It was bundled with other gun control provisions, including a new requirement for legal gun distributors to submit an inventory to the chief of police every six months, and a ban on possessing guns – even legally – in public housing.

Second Amendment Protects Public Housing Tenants

The public Cortland Housing Authority (near Syracuse) required its tenants not to possess "firearms … or other weapons as defined by the laws and

reason.com

Any decent person living in public housing, yes the number might be small, certainly needs a weapon handy.

 

[my-thyme]

They just played this video on FOX.

I thought hubby was gonna have a stroke. They better not just walk in this house.

 

[PrchJrkr]

They just played this video on FOX.

I thought hubby was gonna have a stroke. They better not just walk in this house.

My feelings exactly. If you have a warrant in hand, that's one thing. If you think you're going to walk in to just check ANYTHING you want, you've got another thing coming.

 

[DaSDGuy]

Doors and windows closed and locked. Firearm is secured.

 

[SamSpade]

Does make me wonder sometimes, if she - a "prosecutor" - has any idea what the Constitution says.

 

[Kyle]

Does make me wonder sometimes, if she - a "prosecutor" - has any idea what the Constitution says.

I seriously doubt 90% of Democrats in Congress have any idea what the constitution says.

They certainly don’t speak like they do.

 

[DaSDGuy]

I seriously doubt 90% of Democrats in Congress have any idea what the constitution says.

They certainly don’t speak like they do.

They know what it says. They choose to ignore it unless it is to their benefit.

 

[SamSpade]

They know what it says. They choose to ignore it unless it is to their benefit.

I think that's a lot of it. They know it, they just don't respect it.

 

[Hijinx]

Laws like this are unConstitutional and will get someone killed.

 

[vraiblonde]

Good grief, how much manpower are we talking, going to the homes of all registered gun owners?

Also the guy who just took a shot at Trump, his gun wasn't legally obtained. It wasn't registered to him, so in a jackboot sweep he'd "fall through the cracks".

Why are Democrats sofa king retarded when it comes to guns (and everything else)? They have no common sense to speak of.

 

[GURPS]

Does make me wonder sometimes, if she - a "prosecutor" - has any idea what the Constitution says.

Indifference to injustice

Despite her claims of sympathy toward “innocent men framed,” Harris seemed to work hard to keep many of them behind bars, or on death row, unacceptable behavior for any prosecutor, in any era. After a man was exonerated by the Innocence Project and had his conviction overturned, Harris challenged his release, after 13 years in prison, claiming that the man had not produced evidence of his innocence fast enough. In another case, where a prosecutor had falsified an interview transcript to add an incriminating confession, Harris tried to argue that because the false confession was not obtained by force, it did not violate the defendant’s constitutional rights. The judge disagreed. In another case, a prosecutor lied to a jury, and a panel of federal judges asked why such prosecutors were not being charged with perjury, threatening to release names if Harris’s office continued to defend them. Harris only backed down when video of the hearing was released and embarrassed her office. When a “bombshell” report revealed a long-running and unconstitutional jailhouse snitch program and prosecutorial coverup, Harris’s office appealed the removal of the Orange County district attorney’s office from a death penalty case. [See: C.J. Ciaramella / Reason]

In 2010, a memo surfaced showing that Harris’s deputies in the district attorney’s office knew that a police laboratory technician had been accused of “intentionally sabotaging” her work and stealing drugs from the lab, but withheld information about it from defense lawyers. A judge condemned Harris’s indifference to the injustice, and Harris accused the judge, whose husband was a defense attorney, of bias. Harris lost, and more than 600 cases handled by the corrupt technician were dismissed. In one death row case, based on extremely shaky evidence, Harris opposed a motion for DNA testing that could exonerate the possibly innocent man. (After a New York Times exposé went viral, she reversed her position.) [See: Lara Bazelon / New York Times]

Mass incarceration

Long after the American public became aware that mass incarceration was a failed experiment, especially tragic for people of color, Harris failed to support progressive measures that would alleviate some of its impact. In some cases, she pushed for more. While running for attorney general, Harris championed state legislation that allowed for the criminal prosecution, and jailing, of parents whose children were habitually truant, despite evidence that it would disproportionately affect low-income people of color (and senselessly criminalize behavior that would benefit from services).

Harris appealed a federal judge’s ruling that the death penalty was unconstitutional. As late as June 2016, she was defending the constitutionality of bail in court. She failed to support Proposition 47, a ballot initiative that reduced low-level felonies to misdemeanors. When the Supreme Court decided that California’s overcrowded prisons were cruel and unusual punishment, Harris fought a ruling ordering the state to release some of its prisoners. In her crusade against Backpage and support for SESTA, Harris showed that she was no friend to sex workers.

Harris defended California’s “uniquely cruel three-strikes law,” writes Marcetic, when she urged voters to reject Proposition 66, “a ballot initiative that would have reformed the harsh law by making only serious or violent felonies trigger life sentences.” Later, she offered weaker solutions. In the race for attorney general, her Republican opponent ran to her left on this issue. As the Los Angeles County district attorney, he had proposed a reform of the law, which she had not supported. On marijuana, Harris opted not to join in other states’ attempts to take marijuana off the federal list of most dangerous substances. When asked about legalizing recreational marijuana in 2012, Harris laughed. Once again, in 2014, Harris’s Republican opponent ran to her left on the issue. She eventually reversed course on marijuana last year, long after public opinion had shifted.

Kamala Harris Was a Tough-on-Crime Prosecutor in a Black Lives Matter Era

Long after the American public became aware mass incarceration was a failed experiment, Harris failed to support progressive measures to alleviate some of its impact.

theappeal.org

8. Cheap prison labor, defended by Harris’ office​

Harris read a news story one day in 2014 and discovered that attorneys at the state Justice Department she was heading had argued against the release of minimum-security prisoners because of their value to the state labor pool.

That, at least, is how she explained it in an interview with Buzzfeed News.

“I will be very candid with you because I saw that article this morning, and I was shocked, and I’m looking into it to see if the way it was characterized in the paper is actually how it occurred in court,” Harris told BuzzFeed News in a 2014 interview. “I was very troubled by what I read. I just need to find out what did we actually say in court.”

The inmates working in prisons as groundskeepers, janitors and cooks earned between 8 and 37 cents per hour.

A federal judicial panel overseeing California’s overcrowded prison system had ordered the state to increase the sentence reductions minimum-security inmates earned for participating in rehabilitation and education programs.

However, California Justice Department attorneys had a different view, arguing that prisons needed cheap inmate labor to keep functioning.

“Extending 2-for-1 credits to all minimum custody inmates at this time would severely impact fire camp participation — a dangerous outcome while California is in the middle of a difficult fire season and severe drought,” Justice Department attorneys wrote in a September 2014 filing.

The argument, later disavowed by Harris, was part of her office’s frequent conflicts with the three-judge panel overseeing the prison system.

Harris’ attorney general’s office “continually equivocated regarding the facts and the law,” the three-judge panel wrote in 2013. “This court would, therefore, be within its rights to issue an order to show cause and institute contempt proceedings immediately.”

The judges said they didn’t do so because that might further delay the state’s release of nonviolent prisoners.

What 9 Cases From Kamala Harris’ Past Say About Her Record as a California Prosecutor | KQED

Was the former California attorney general and San Francisco DA too soft on crime? Or too tough? Her critics are quick to label her, but the reality isn’t so simple.

www.kqed.org

 

[Kyle]

Good grief, how much manpower are we talking, going to the homes of all registered gun owners?

I would guess they want to put this off on local law-enforcement, with some sort of federal grant money.

To get the dollars, do what we tell you.

 

[Hijinx]

Government attacks on legal law abiding taxpaying gun owners is nothing new, while they ignore shootings in the inner cities.