Vice President Kamala Harris has had a fairly typical road toward her party's nomination, at least if you ignore the whole "has never won a primary" thing. She started out as the district attorney of San Francisco, became California attorney general, then a senator, and eventually vice president. It's a fairly legitimate pathway toward the White House, if that's what you want in life.

But that also means there's a lot of history there to be looked at.

Most Democrats, even those who desperately work toward foisting gun control on the American public, try to pretend they have some supportive sentiment for the Second Amendment. It's the whole "I support the Second Amendment but..." thing, but they at least try to act like it matters.

Harris doesn't get to do that because of her actions as San Francisco DA.

Vice President Kamala Harris, who took over as White House gun czar last year, spearheaded the administration's push to close the so-called gun show loophole, requiring background checks on private sales at gun shows. But archived footage shows Harris fought for even more drastic measures as San Francisco district attorney. She wanted to ban gun shows altogether.

In August 2007, Harris held a San Francisco press conference to promote a state bill to ban gun shows at the Cow Palace, a popular indoor arena owned by the California Department of Food and Agriculture. Flanked by then-mayor Gavin Newsom, Harris said there was an "absolute and direct connection" between gun shows at the Cow Palace and "San Franciscans … dying in the streets."

"This place behind us, the Cow Palace, is basically state property that is allowing the state of California to be a merchant in selling tools of death," said Harris. A month earlier, she had successfully pushed for a ban on gun shows held on city and county property.

"We are here to say that we want the Cow Palace to shut down these gun shows because the legal sale of guns in this place is resulting in murder in the streets of San Francisco."

Harris has not called to ban gun shows held at private venues, but her rhetoric about the popular events could reinforce concerns about Harris’s gun control record. "Gun owners should understand that Harris poses the gravest threat to their Second Amendment rights," the National Rifle Association said of Harris.

California was "a merchant in selling tools of death" because they allowed people to rent a venue?

That's stupid enough as it is, but the framing illustrates deeper problems.

First, in 2007, California had universal background checks, waiting periods, and lists of approved firearms people could buy. You couldn't just walk into a gun show, buy a gun off of some guy, then walk out with it. The state's extensive gun control laws, measures sold to the public as the means to prevent criminals from getting guns, are all in effect at gun shows regardless of where they're held.

So why was the state "selling tools of death" when everything was so restricted?

If this is how Harris views guns as they are in heavily restricted California, what does she think of the firearms you have in your gun safe?

This suggests that even if she claims otherwise, there is absolutely no respect for the right to keep and bear arms because she sees all guns as "tools of death." That's incredibly troubling.