# Kamala owns a gun "for personal safety" **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [April 12, 2019, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-owns-a-gun-for-personal-safety/832465 "2019-04-12T22:54:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 365
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2019, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-owns-a-gun-for-personal-safety/832465/365 "2019-05-02T23:11:54Z")
Here’s a greatest hits of false claims. > [@DrDeth](#): > > She said that gun laws that were unconstitutional were perfectly OK. This doesn’t appear to have happened. > [@DrDeth](#): > > She was in favor of a total handgun ban. No evidence of this has been delivered. > [@DrDeth](#): > > So Harris believes and has supported laws that would ban all private ownership of handguns. Doesn’t look like it. > [@DrDeth](#): > > Her law was ruled UnConstitutional by the Supreme Court. Not her law. > [@DrDeth](#): > > Sure her owning a gun is legal, but she is/was in favor of banning all private handgun possession. Thus hypocritical. Probably not. > [@DrDeth](#): > > So, yeah, there are people who want to ban all handguns (Harris)or all semi-automatics and yes, a few that want to ban all guns. Nope. > [@DrDeth](#): > > As DA she had to sign off and approve any proposition for the ballot as legal. Definitely not. > [@DrDeth](#): > > She supported it in public. I don’t think so. > [@DrDeth](#): > > Her name in the newspapers at that time. Ads. I haven’t seen any reason to believe this. > [@DrDeth](#): > > No, the DA can refuse anything for the ballot that isnt legal. Definitely not true. > [@DrDeth](#): > > I was up there, i saw her face on TV. I don’t think this is true. > [@DrDeth](#): > > In any case, can you deny she was DA? And thus she ruled that Prop H was legal? This is false. The DA does not rule on propositions. > [@DrDeth](#): > > Note that her appeals were rejected by a\* unanimous decision.\* Not one single judge agreed that Prop H was legal. I don’t think she had anything to do with these appeals. > [@DrDeth](#): > > No, but it means she Oked it as legal. She did no such thing. > [@DrDeth](#): > > She just could have not allowed it on the ballot. It isnt uncommon, it happens in CA. She could not have done this. District Attorneys do not have this power. > [@DrDeth](#): > > Prop 9 was just stricken and not allowed on the ballot. Prop 9 was kept off the ballot by the California Supreme Court, not a DA. > [@DrDeth](#): > > As DA she ruled it was legal to be put on the ballot. She did not. This is not a thing that DA’s do. > [@DrDeth](#): > > And the DA doesnt have to defend a law. I’m pretty sure she didn’t. > [@DrDeth](#): > > What do you want me to show? That ballot propositions in CA have to be cleared for legality before they are put on the ballot? :dubious:Or that she was DA at that time? :dubious:Either one is liek asking for proof that the sun rises in the morning, why are you asking for silly cites? Even when i provide them, you’l; just ignore them anyway, like that rest of my cites. This clearing ballot propostions for legality mechanism is not a thing that exists. Sunrises, on the hand, do exist. > [@DrDeth](#): > > Thereby as DA of SF, Harris had to pass on that Prop getting on the ballot. Nope. That’s not a thing DAs do. > [@DrDeth](#): > > And then of course I saw harris on TV on a yes on H ad, giving a soundbite about how handgun violence is bad. This probably didn’t happen, but a cite could convince me that it did. > [@DrDeth](#): > > The DA or the AG have to sign off whether or not a Prop is legal. Definetly not. This is straight up false. > [@DrDeth](#): > > Last year the Prop to split CA into several states was blocked and didnt get on the ballot. Blocked by the CA Supreme Court, not a DA or the AG. > [@DrDeth](#): > > They can do so only if they can show the prop isnt legal. Or they can say “I dont think this is legal, but I am letting it get on the ballot anyway”. But yes, they have to sign off on it’s legality. Not whether or not it is proper, right/wrong anything else- legal. Nothing like this exists. A big ball of false. > [@DrDeth](#): > > But that wasnt the issue that cites were needed for it was the fact that Harris approved the SF handgun ban while she was DA there. Definitely not a fact. She did not do this. > [@DrDeth](#): > > Her face was on TV supporting the Prop. I doubt it. > [@DrDeth](#): > > Look, I saw her on TV supporting Prop H. I don’t believe that this occurred. I think you are mistaken. > [@DrDeth](#): > > About the only thing I can’t show is that she signed off on Prop H, but since you guys dont know how SF politics works, and i do, there’s nothing I can say that will convince you. You can’t show this because it didn’t happen. > [@DrDeth](#): > > Your claim was “your nonsensical and clearly false claims”. The only claim I cant make you believe is that the San Francisco Board of Supervisors , before putting Prop H on the ballot, somehow failed to confer with their Lawyer, one DA Harris. The DA is not Board of Supervisors’ lawyer. It is extremely unlikely that they conferred with her on this matter. > [@DrDeth](#): > > There is always a City Attorney or the DA sitting there, weighing in on any legal question, and also giving advice whenever any law, bill or measure would be illegal. Maybe the City Attorney, but I doubt it. Almost certainly not the DA. > [@DrDeth](#): > > Are you saying I didnt see her on TV? I am seriously beginning to doubt that you saw her on TV in support of Prop H. I don’t think you’re lying. I think you’re wrong. > [@DrDeth](#): > > Perhaps yes, as Bone mentioned, neither had the authority to keep Prop H off the ballot. But they certainly weighed in. They definitely don’t have the power to keep it off the ballot and there is no evidence that Kamala Harris weighed in on this. Also, this is substantially different from your original claim. Would you like to withdraw that claim (again)? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-owns-a-gun-for-personal-safety/832465)._