# Kamala Harris' recent comments on guns **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** kamala-harris\ **Created:** [September 22, 2024, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-recent-comments-on-guns/1007591 "2024-09-22T19:07:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 69
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2024, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-recent-comments-on-guns/1007591/69 "2024-09-23T03:50:38Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > And therein lies the problem. Who is to say that you weren’t afraid for your life? > > We are making individuals judges, juries and executioners at a traffic light. Yes, that is an issue. But not if someone breaks into my home, which is the issue _HERE._ If someone breaks into my home, they have started by committing a serious felony. > [@griffin1977](#): > > Though that’s a very different matter to the OP. Yes. Harris was a law enforcement professional, and get daily death threats. If anyone gets to have a gun in their home, it is her. _Mind you, having a gun in your home for defense is a serious step, and one not to be taken lightly._ Take a gun safety course, Go to a range. Keep your weapon secured, and if you have kids- securely locked away. I neither recommend this nor do I say nay. > [@griffin1977](#): > > It’s completely insane that society allows people to wonder round with lethal firearms in case they decide to get into a road rage altercation and feel threatened by the other party This thread is about Harris- a law enforcement professional with daily death threats, keeping a gun secured in her HOME. And, by relation, about keeping a gun at home. Talking about road rage is moving the goalposts so far they are out of the stadium. > [@pkbites](#): > > The real focus should be how Kamala Harris is completely full of shit. Harris is a law enforcement professional; many LEO think “civilians” should have limited rights to guns. > [@pkbites](#): > > One of their plans was to get semi-automatic firearms classified like a Class 3 (full auto) firearms. Nope. What they wanted to do is bring back the old ban on sales of new assault weapons, like the 1994 law. > **[Federal Assault Weapons Ban](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Assault_Weapons_Ban)** > > The Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act, popularly known as the Federal Assault Weapons Ban (AWB or FAWB), was subtitle A of title XI of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, a United States federal law which included a prohibition on the manufacture for civilian use of certain semi-automatic firearms that were defined as assault weapons as well as certain ammunition magazines that were defined as large capacity. > The 10-year ban was passed by the U.S... > [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > Actually it should be how she got a CCW in a state that does everything it can to deny them to ordinary citizenry. CA law states anyone can keep a gun in their home or place of business. That is what we are talking about. > [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > And, given recent supreme court rulings, just how far do you think California can go to restrict gun ownership? Plenty. CA has again tried to ban carrying CCW is “sensitive locations”- meaning more or less pretty much any built up area. Just like NYC did. But the courts blocked it. > **[California law banning carrying concealed firearms in many public places is...](https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/07/us/california-concealed-carry-gun-law-blocked/index.html)** > > A new California gun law banning the concealed carry of firearms in “sensitive places” – including places of worship, public libraries, amusement parks, zoos and sporting events – is once again blocked after a decision Saturday by the 9th Circuit... _“SB2 turns nearly every public place in California into a ‘sensitive place,’ effectively abolishing the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding and exceptionally qualified citizens to be armed and to defend themselves in public,” Carney wrote in his order._ So SCOTUS left a loophole that said of course a state can ban CCW from schools and such. So, the 'and such" turns out to be pretty much any public place. > [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > So I might help if you accurately address the road-rage scenario Which has what to do with Harris keeping a gun in her home, or anyone keeping a gun in their home? > [@griffin1977](#): > > So where did concealed weapons permits come into it? The OP was about Kamala Harris comments on having a gun in her own home for self defense Exactly. And sure, that can branch out into us hoi polloi keeping a gun in our hames- is Harris making a good example? But she isnt carrying her gun around, she has Secret Service for that. > [@griffin1977](#): > > Policy on concealed carry is a whole 'nother kettle of fish. Harris has (quite correctly) not touched that with a barge pole. Right. > [@Smapti](#): > > What does that have to do with keeping a pistol in one’s home for self-defense? Oh, wait, I forgot that I’m not allowed to have an opinion on guns unless I can field-strip an M2 Browning blindfolded and list off all the differences between an M16 and an AR15. I’ll see myself out. Hardly. But you should know the difference between a semi-automatic and a machine gun. > [@Smapti](#): > > This thread is silly. It is entirely reasonable for a person in Harris’ position to own a gun for self-defense. Right. > [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#): > > A friend of mine was stabbed to death because some crackhead broke into his house to steal stuff. The thief/murderer ended up with a couple hundred bucks worth of tools. The idea that home invaders only want to take your stuff is bullshit. Yep. Let’s not get into “road rage” this is about a home invasion case, while the owner is still at home. Which is _extremely dangerous_ to the homeowner. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-harris-recent-comments-on-guns/1007591)._