… the aim isn’t to prohibit only one sort of gun but to limit gun ownership wherever it can be found.”
Over at The Reload, Stephen Gutowski reports:
Vice President Kamala Harris supported a 2005 ballot measure that banned San Francisco residents from possessing pistols.
The Democratic presidential nominee backed Proposition H in her role as the city’s District Attorney at the time. The measure banned San Francisco residents from buying, selling, or even possessing handguns. With exceptions included for active-duty law enforcement, military, and licensed security guards, 58 percent voted in favor of the measure. But it faced immediate legal scrutiny from the National Rifle Association (NRA), California Rifle and Pistol Association (CRPA), and other gun-rights groups.
“San Francisco was a leader in proposing gun restrictions at the local level, and she never met a gun control law she didn’t like,” Chuck Michel, who represented the NRA and CRPA in its fight against the city, told The Reload. “Prop H was the crowning jewel.”Harris broke with other prominent gun-control advocates in backing the ban and confiscation measure, according to the San Jose Mercury News.
Harris broke with other prominent gun-control advocates in backing the ban and confiscation measure, according to the San Jose Mercury News.
This is a crazy and unconstitutional position, and it tells us a lot about Harris’s radicalism. But it also tells us a lot about the broader gun-control movement, which has for years pretended that it is “only” interested in this or that sort of firearm but which actually regards the private ownership of guns as a problem per se.
By Charles W. Cooke
