VP Kamala Harris’ niece: It’s ‘easier to get a gun than baby formula’

Vice President Kamala Harris’ far-leftist niece, Meena Harris, is facing derision and mockery for a self-own tweet she posted in response to the Uvalde mass shooting.

In a tweet posted early Tuesday evening, around the time that word of the shooting began going viral, she claimed that it’s “easier to get a gun than baby formula.”

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While the tweet earned her nearly 200,000 likes from adoring Biden administration sycophants, it also attracted derision from those who believe that blame for the baby formula shortage lies with the Biden administration — meaning, in other words, that it lies in part with Harris’ own aunt. Not to mention every other Democrat in power.

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But just to be clear, Harris did not actually have a point. Guns are in no way, shape, or form easier to purchase than baby formula.

While it’s true America’s currently experiencing a nationwide shortage of baby formula, this fact is entirely separate from the accessibility debate.

If there were no shortage, any man, woman, or even teen could walk into a store right now and purchase baby formula, no questions asked.

For purchasing a gun, on the other hand, a bevy of rules apply. For one, only those 21 and older may purchase a handgun. As for a rifle, the minimum age required for purchasing one is either 18 or 21, depending on the state.

But that’s just rule one. To obtain a handgun, you need a license. To purchase any weapon, you need to pass a background check. The rules go on and on and on.

Meena’s tweet was posted hours after Salvador Ramos, an 18-year-old man, reportedly opened fire at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, killing 20+ people, including over a dozen children and at least two teachers.

As news of the shooting began going viral late Tuesday afternoon, members of the left started demanding gun control again, much as they always do following a mass shooting that can’t be blamed on white people.

The going theory on the left is that the Uvalde mass shooting — and in fact every mass shooting in American history — could have been prevented with tougher gun laws. But critics say this belief is false.

Here’s how conservative commentator Ben Shapiro put it: “The Texas shooter violated a multiplicity of gun laws. The suggestion that more gun laws would have prevented this act of unspeakable evil is unsupported, and the implication that those who oppose such laws are somehow in favor of mass shootings is morally reprehensible.”

While it’s unclear if this viewpoint is 100 percent accurate vis-a-vis the latest mass shooting — too many details remain unclear at the moment — it’s been demonstrated to be accurate in most shootings, period.

Indeed, a study published by the Department of Justice in 2019 found that of the 287,400 criminals locked up in 2016 for criminal offenses involving weapons, over 90 percent of them had obtained the weapons illegally.

So how would even more gun laws have made a difference then — and how would they make any difference now?

Vivek Saxena

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