Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: The loophole in the Mass. assault weapons ban [View all]pablo_marmol
(2,375 posts)K. Harris is the perfect politician. Photogenic, grandstanding.....and essentially incompetent. Screams about a non-existent "epidemic of gun violence"* while doing nothing about the catastrofuck that is California's firearm-related databases. And she's left a shit-ton of money on the table dedicated to improving mental health problems in the state. A hypocrite supreme.
* http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/05/07/gun-homicide-rate-down-49-since-1993-peak-public-unaware/
"California Attorney General Kamala Harris, a candidate actively campaigning for the Senate seat that is opening up with Barbara Boxers retirement, recently made the news when she tried to shame members of Congress for refusing to enact unconstitutional and counterproductive gun-control laws. They should have closed the chambers of Congress on the House and the Senate side, and said all you members go in there, only you, and spread out the autopsy photographs of and them to look at those photographs. And then vote your conscience, Harris said at Politicon, a political convention held in Los Angeles.
Wow! Thats some pretty extreme rhetoric. But is the pot calling the kettle black here? Harris is the highest level law enforcement officer in California, and the head of the Department of Justice (DOJ). DOJ is responsible for maintaining criminal records, mental illness records, records of those who have become ineligible to possess firearms, and all of the databases used to perform background checks on gun buyers, to register firearms, and to take firearms away from people who are prohibited from possessing them but who still have firearms registered in their name.
Those records, and the related databases, are a hot mess."
http://213ajq29v6vk19b76q3534cx.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Special-Feature-K-Harris.pdf
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