Kamala Harris talks about owning a gun

[Skidmore]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/11/politics/kamala-harris-gun-owner/index.html

Sen. Kamala Harris, whose stump speech includes impassioned calls for banning assault weapons and universal background checks, put it very simply: Yes, she owns a firearm.

"I am a gun owner, and I own a gun for probably the reason a lot of people do -- for personal safety," the California Democrat said Thursday. "I was a career prosecutor."

The weight of that phrase was a reminder of the personal risk Harris has faced in her career in law enforcement, from being an Alameda County criminal prosecutor, San Francisco district attorney and California attorney general.

A Harris campaign aide said the weapon she owns is a handgun, which she keeps locked up, as a responsible gun owner. According to the aide, the handgun was purchased years ago....

[beachbum bob]

1. good for her, I and my wife are gun owning democrats. Nothing to shy away from

[Hoyt]

2. As long as she doesn't have closet full, carry it, profit off guns, look like this, etc., I'm OK

with it.
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[Hortensis]

3. Sadly makes sense. I gave very serious thought to

getting a carry permit when I was an appraiser and occasionally working in very under-policed neighborhoods, but in the end decided to rely on caution, such as always stopping car with gap ahead so I could pull out fast, etc., etc. Being a petite woman actually turned out to be my best "defense" as no one ever seemed to take my intrusion as a challenge.

But I was arriving unexpectedly at every location, there and gone, and never had to consider that someone might hunt me down. Harris's situation, as a former hunter of criminals, is very different.