Can Kamala Harris Be Trusted to Protect the Rights of Americans?

Vice President Kamala Harris is famous for her flip-flopping to win votes. She is currently courting the votes of gun owners by claiming that she owns a gun and any intruder in her home would be shot. According to Amy Swearer at The Daily Signal, this is what Harris was saying while district attorney of San Francisco in 2007: 

We’re going to require responsible behaviors among everybody in the community, and just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn’t mean that we’re not going to walk into that home and check to see if you’re being responsible and safe in the way you conduct your affairs.

Even though Harris voiced support for Columbia v. Heller defending a ban on handgun possession in Washington D.C., Swearer found it “shocking” that Harris “so brazenly and vindictively threatened to violate gun owners’ other constitutional rights.” Since Harris is not an “amateur on criminal law who can claim ignorance,” she should know that “the Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures.” Swearer continued, “As a general rule, the government can’t search a person (or his or her property) without a warrant or absent probable cause that a crime has been committed.”

According to Swearer, Harris should also know that “there’s no ‘Second Amendment loophole’ to the Fourth Amendment. There’s no asterisk with fine print excluding gun owners from the rest of the Bill of Rights.” Swearer explained, “The government can’t force us to pick and choose between our rights, nor can it condition the exercise of one right on the waiver of another.”

Americans have the right to keep and bear arms, and we have the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. We also have the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures while keeping and bearing arms.

Harris’ comments should rightly terrify Americans. You don’t have to be a gun owner or even like guns to see how dangerous this theory of governance is to a free society, and how dramatically it undermines constitutional norms.

If Harris is willing to unilaterally waive gun owners’ Fourth Amendment rights, it’s not unreasonable to ask what other rights she’d be willing to unilaterally waive, and for whom.

Can the government require all who peaceably assemble to forfeit any right against excessive bail?

Can it quarter soldiers in the homes of people who petition for redress of their grievances?

May it prohibit the free exercise of religion, but just for those who insist on their right to trial by an impartial jury?

Any American who has studied the Bill Rights knows that the correct answer is NO. Our Constitution does not work that way for anyone.

This is why Harris should never come close to becoming President of the United States. VOTE TRUMP!