Posted on 09/13/2024 4:13:10 AM PDT by Libloather
Vice President Kamala Harris surprised many Americans when she announced during the Tuesday's debate that she owned a firearm because of her history of pressing for more gun control.
'Tim Walz and I are both gun owners. We're not taking anybody's guns away. So stop with the continuous lying about this stuff,' she said during the debate with Donald Trump.
But Harris actually revealed her gun ownership on the campaign trail in Iowa, during her failed 2020 presidential campaign.
'I am a gun owner, and I own a gun for probably the reason a lot of people do – for personal safety,' Harris told voters in April 2019, reminding them she was once a city prosecutor.
Campaign aides at the time confirmed that Harris owned a handgun and that she kept it locked up. She has not revealed the make or model but says she's a good shot.
The Harris campaign did not return a DailyMail.com request for comment.
Harris spoke about shooting guns in a 2015 interview with journalist Mike Allen who asked her if she had ever shot a gun.
In response, Harris laughed and refused to say when was the last time she had used a gun.
'I'm a good marksman,' she added, laughing. 'Yes, I have shot a gun many, many times.'
She confirmed she had shot a 'pistol' but refused to share further details.
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That’s it Kamela....... show us your teeth some more
Of course they own guns…dems have never had a problem with guns. Their issue is that you can have them too. They would also have no problem murdering you with them. Give your guns up and find out.
A Bud Dwyer suggest.
Her lie was funny to her. Thinking to herself, these stupid people will buy my lie of being a great marksman, just like they bought Joe's lie of having a 6 handicap in golf.
She knew she was spouting lies, and it so amused her, she couldn't contain the laugh welling up inside.
Like a true liberal ... she will probably support it’s OK for me to own a gun for personal protection but you don’t need one as the government will protect you.
***We’re not taking anybody’s guns away. ***
Liars. Democrats have been doing this since 1962.
(I)n 1941, just days before the Pearl Harbor attack, Congress reaffirmed Second Amendment rights and prohibited gun registration. In 1968, bills to register guns were debated, with opponents recalling the Nazi experience and supporters denying that the Nazis ever used registration records to confiscate guns. The bills were defeated, as every such proposal has been ever since, including recent “universal background check” bills.
The lies we have been told over the years...
1962 We ONLY want to register handguns. Rifles will not be affected!
1964, We ONLY want to register ALL firearms, not ban them.
1968 We ONLY want to register all guns, and ban the import of foreign Saturday Night Specials, and 5-shot bolt action army surplus rifles! (they got the ban).
1970, We ONLY want to ban small American handguns. Rifles will not be affected!
1976 We ONLY want to ban ALL handguns! Rifles will not be affected!
1981, Actress Lee Grant on Good Morning America (ABC) screams...”THE NRA IS A RIFLE ORGANIZATION! THEY SHOULD GIVE UP THEIR HANDGUNS AND THEY CAN KEEP THEIR RIFLES!”
1984, they came for the rifles.
I spend a fair amount of time on the range and most people are not “good marksmen” even if they shoot fairly regularly. Yes, they can hit paper at 7 yards and that’s probably good enough to get the job done but it doesn’t make you a good marksman. Women, even more than men, have a tendency to limp wrist the gun which is why so many of their shots are low and to the right.
“the headline leads one to believe she had a gun during the debate.”
About a decade and a half ago I got into good graces of a local judge and did some electrical work around his house and he was very grateful, After that I started getting work from other judges in the area through his recommendation by word-of-mouth.
One thing I learned through casual conversation was that a lot of those judges CCW and carry in the courtroom.
She said I am a gun owner
If that doesn’t scare you nothing will no wonder she can’t draw a large crowd at her speeches.
How is she allowed to carry a gun into a debate?
This is Willie’s Pistol.
This is his gun.
She and her family do not have lifetime protection, though, as a former VP. But yes, of course, while in office she is protected by the very guns she would ban others from owning .
The “we are gun owners” is a verbal trick that makes it sound like they own multiple guns. Perhaps they are complete hypocrites and own all the types they want to ban. Or maybe they went and bought a .22 single stack before the campaign to make the claim technically true.
But it doesn’t matter, because the press will never ask her what type of gun or whether she is proficient in using it.
The real problem, IMO, is they are never challenged on their premises that gun ownership is a) a privilege granted by the government b) restricted to arbitrary types, and c) only for arbitrary uses (hunting, self-defense).
She also referenced Biden’s gun ownership as if that was an argument to negate her previous statements, and he repeatedly announces that he has no clue on either legal use of firearms, or on firearms themselves. I’m not sure that there has been anything regarding firearms on which he has spoken and not been wildly inaccurate.
Regular shooters know the type - a self-aggrandizing punk buys a gun, locks in a drawer, and claims he or she doesn’t need to train because they’re a “natural shot”. The short term for such a creature is “idiot”.
As VP, she has SS protection now and I read something about her stepdaughter having it right now as well.
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