BELLEVUE, WA – A resurfaced video of Kamala Harris telling a San Francisco press conference that authorities would “walk into” the private homes of gun owners to determine whether they were safely storing their firearms is an outrageous example of her anti-gun extremism, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said in reaction.
Harris, then serving as a district attorney in San Francisco under then-Mayor Gavin Newsom, made the comment in 2007. But the 15-second grainy video resurfaced this week and is already making headlines in the Daily Mail and TheGunMag.com.
Speaking about a gun control ordinance at the time, Harris told reporters, “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.”
CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb called her remarks “alarming” and “stunning.”
“This was Kamala’s typical word salad, but with vinegar dressing,” the veteran gun rights advocate observed. “Taken at face value, this remark underscores our contention that she has been an anti-gun extremist throughout her political career.
“Even more alarming,” he observed, “for someone who was a prosecuting attorney at the time, she would have known what she was describing would have been an egregious violation of the Fourth Amendment protection against warrantless searches and seizures. But it simply demonstrates that the Bill of Rights means nothing to Kamala Harris if it stands in the way of her gun prohibition agenda. What she was suggesting was, and remains, simply outrageous. It clearly shows the lengths and depths to which Harris would go in her personal war against the Second Amendment.
“Just like Joe Biden, Harris claims she is a gun owner,” Gottlieb added, “because it serves her political purpose. It’s not about whether she owns a gun. It’s clear she doesn’t want anyone else to have one.”