Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2024 campaign is backtracking after she said something that wasn’t actually remotely wrong.
As previously reported, during a campaign event this Thursday with socialite Oprah Winfrey, Harris claimed that she owns a gun and would shoot an intruder.
“I’m a gun owner, Tim Walz is a gun owner,” she began. “If somebody breaks into my house, they’re getting shot, sorry. Probably should not have said that, but my staff will deal with that later.”
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Here’s the thing: What she said wasn’t wrong. The primary purpose of owning a gun is self-defense, and if an intruder does break into your home, you ARE supposed to shoot them to protect your family.
Yet despite this, when questioned by CNN’s Jake Tapper on Friday about Harris’ remarks, the VP’s senior adviser, Keisha Lance Bottoms, backtracked.
“Well, she was joking,” Bottoms said. “And then obviously, the vice president has given multiple interviews and she knows that every single thing that she says will be picked apart. So I mean, it was a joke, and she knew that we would still be talking about it today.”
So it was just a joke? But which part — that she owns a gun, that she’d shoot an intruder, or both?
“But, you know, I think it’s important that people know that the vice president respects the right to bear arms, that she supports a Second Amendment, but she wants responsible gun ownership and she wants our communities to be safe,” Bottoms continued.
“So it was a joke that we’re still talking about today. But again, I think it humanizes the vice president, and I think that’s important as we are 46 days from the election,” she added.
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Unfortunately for Harris, this backtracking only helped further cement in her critics’ mind that she’s an anti-gun zealot at heart and a liar. It doesn’t help that her campaign is refusing to answer questions.
“[We have] repeatedly reached out to the Harris campaign with detailed questions about her gun ownership, including the type of firearm she owns and whether she had a concealed-carry license in California, where she owns a home,” Newsweek reported Friday.
“As a district attorney and then attorney general of that state, it’s unclear whether she would have needed to obtain such a permit. The campaign has not responded to those inquiries,” according to the outlet.
What she recently told Wired magazine in an interview also doesn’t help.
“We will not take anyone’s guns away, but we also need reasonable gun safety laws,” she said. “I believe we need an assault weapons ban, universal background checks, and red flag laws. We can support the Second Amendment, as I do, while also agreeing on the need for reasonable laws.”
Kamala Harris: We will not take anyone’s guns away
Also Kamala Harris: We also need an assault weapons ban
pic.twitter.com/6ZskXSG0jE— Drew Hernandez (@DrewHLive) September 20, 2024
Do you see the problem with what she said? While initially claiming she doesn’t want to “take anyone’s guns away,” she went on to call for “an assault weapons ban.” FYI, “an assault weapons ban” would require taking people’s guns away.
But it gets worse. Back when Harris was San Francisco’s district attorney in 2017, she called for police to have the right to burst into the homes of legal gun owners to inspect how they store their guns.
“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,” she said.
Then, during her 2019 presidential primary run, she called for a “mandatory gun buyback program” for so-called “assault weapons” — which again was another call to ban guns.
KAMALA: “I support a mandatory buyback program.”
That means mandatory gun confiscation from millions of law-abiding gun owners. She’s dangerously liberal! pic.twitter.com/Mgb329MkSV
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) July 30, 2024
A Monmouth University poll conducted last year found that a 46 percent minority of Americans support an “assault weapons ban” while a 49 percent plurality oppose it.
“Despite continued incidents of mass shootings, public support for banning assault weapons has dipped. It’s not clear why, since support for some other gun measures remains widespread,” Patrick Murray, the director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute, said at the time.
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