They say that once is an accident, twice is a coincidence, and three times is a pattern. If so, Kamala Harris’s three attempts to impose draconian gun-control measures on the citizenry of these United States ought to terrify the voting public. Thrice now, Harris has made plays against the Second Amendment that have no parallel in this country’s history. Were she to be elected, the chances of a fourth would be unacceptably high.
On the stump, Harris likes to scoff that she has no interest in “taking away your guns.” But this belated assurance is belied by every piece of evidence in her record. In 2006, from her perch as the district attorney of San Francisco, Harris backed Proposition H, which prohibited residents of that city from buying, selling, or owning handguns of any kind, and banned “all City residents, without exception, from selling, distributing, transferring and manufacturing firearms and ammunition.” Had the measure not been struck down by the courts, it would have yielded precisely the sort of mass confiscation that Harris now indignantly insists she disdains. In endorsing the proposal, Harris set herself apart from even Dianne Feinstein and Gavin Newsom, both of whom considered the project to be a step too far.
Two years later, Harris went one further and signed an amicus brief in the case of D.C. v. Heller that argued that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution furnished Americans with no protections whatsoever. Harris’s brief contended not only that “the Second Amendment applies only to federal legislation, not to legislation of the states or local governments,” but that “the Second Amendment provides only a militia-related right to bear arms.” If the Supreme Court had adopted this preposterous reading, it would have entirely obviated the right to keep and bear arms in America and cleared the way for the abolition of private ownership — which Harris had hoped to achieve in San Francisco — nationwide.
By The Editors
