No-knock, no-knock...
What. An. Idiot. San Francisco is living proof that Darwin was wrong.
How very compassionate of the city that shouts from every mountaintop about how compassionate it is....job one is to disarm the poor.
Take away the guns from those who need the most protection because they are the most likely to be victimized by crime, the poor and the minorities.
Hitler and Goebbels would be so very, very proud.
You ask, "have you ever been there"? Yes, I have. I didn't find it so romantic, I didn't find it terribly exciting, nor did I find it that scenic. I found it offensive, and hard to get around!
Strong statement, yes. But, it is what I perceive...sorry.
You have got to be f**kin kidding me. A politician can actually make a statement like this in this country without fear of any repercussion from their constituents?
SF is an embarrassment! All our brave fighting men who died to protect our freedoms! The citizens of San Francisco just lay down and give it away!
I'm amazed that the gun prohibition in or on city owned property are not already on SF's lawbooks. Even here in relatively gun-friendly GA I can't legally carry my concealed (or unconcealed) weapon on state, county, or city property even though I have a valid CCW permit.
Sounds like Rudy Giuliani.
What, pray tell, would be wrong with just locking violent armed criminals up for life, or at least for very long periods of time, as was once common practice in America? A convicted serial killer on parole could report to his probation officer every day of the week and still kill people every night without the officer knowing anything about it. Taking away his right to possess guns is about as effective at keeping him disarmed as is me telling my 4 year-old grandson that he can't jump up and down on the new sofa.
No-knock, no-knock...
“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 that you conduct your affairs,” District Attorney Kamala Harris said.
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I think I saw her on TV one time,,,hard to remember...
Shouldn't "authorities" also say that having your gun locked away in a lockbox is a good way to make sure that it isn't of any use as protection from criminal home invaders who usually don't call before coming over to visit?
No trigger locks or lockboxes are in use in my house. I would probably have trouble dropping off to sleep at night without my trusty S&W .38 Special lying at ready on my bedside table, and I don't even live in a big crime-ridden city like SF.
I wonder if the DA has ever taken notice of the 4th Amendment to the US Constitution.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, HOMES, papers, and effects, against unreasonable search and seizures, shall not be violated and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the the place to be searched , and persons or things to be seized."
To be sure, the amendment allows the proper authorities to search a person's house or other property, but only based on probable cause. I don't believe the amendment's authors would consider that the mere unfounded suspicion of a cop or DA that a resident may possibly be improperly storing a firearm in his or her own home constitutes "probable cause" for issuing a search warrant.
Or perhaps in the liberal's Shangrila known as SF, the 4th Amendment has been repealed by the omnipotent SF mayor and his arrogant toadies. In that case it may be time for that courageous judge who previously threw out SF's gun ban law to once again remind the control freaks in SF's government that their bailiwick is still a part of the USA no matter how much they hate that tie to the real world, and that the Constitution is still the supreme law of the land, no matter how much they may hate it.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I say let SF continue this nonsense, while productive citizens continue to leave town. It will be intersting to see how an entire society of “useless eaters” prevails on their own.
It is even more fair to say that Mr. Harris is stating the obvious as though it has recently been handed down from on high to him personally.
Here's a clue Mr. Harris, since you obviously don't have one of your own. Any gun used by a criminal to commit a crime is an illegal gun under both federal and CA law, and has been an illegal gun ever since it came into the criminal's possession. Mr. Harris, do you actually believe that a criminal who intends to commit a violent crime with a gun is the least bit concerned that he would also be breaking a law against possessing a gun if he goes ahead with his planned crime? If you're really that short on common sense, I would like to interest you in some exceptional bargains in penny stocks that I happen to have for sale.
Fools on a fool’s errand.
What is he going to do - keep his pants buttoned up?
Seems to me that the idea would be to remind criminals how to behave.....oh, I forgot; in San Francisco, if you own a gun you must be a criminal.
And yet when stayed late after work to go to a concert in San Francisco last Friday night, I saw many of these very same "young urban black males" openly selling drugs at Hallidie Plaza near 5th and Market - the very heart of the city - without a cop anywhere in sight.
So really, Mr. Mayor and Ms. D.A., addressing crime problems in San Francisco is going to require recognition that the stereotypical white guy out in the Sunset with a rifle locked up in his closet really isn't your top priority - even if there is a 1% chance that he might get angry some day and shoot his wife...and later the Mayor and the D.A. Your prime suspects are all standing right out in the open, and with a little wisely directed effort, as Howard Hunter (James B. Sikking) once said on "Hill Street Blues", you can accomplish more urban renewal in fifteen minutes than the Feds have done in twenty years.
This may require telling some "community activists" and part of your political base to go pound sand. But you'll feel much better for it, in the long run. ;)