Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) stated Sunday that Vice President Harris ought to show she’s a gun proprietor by telling People “what kind of gun she has.”
“Effectively, look, I do not assume anybody believes that Kamala Harris is a gun proprietor,” Comer said on Fox Information’s “Sunday Morning Futures” with anchor Maria Bartiromo. “But when she is, she wants to inform the American folks what kind of gun she has.”
At a marketing campaign event earlier this week, Harris acknowledged that if somebody had been to interrupt into her home, “they’re getting shot.” Harris’s feedback on a doable break-in got here in response to Oprah Winfrey elevating that the vp is a gun proprietor, something that Harris also talked about throughout her current debate in opposition to former President Trump.
“If someone breaks into my home, they’re getting shot,” Harris stated Thursday, laughing. “I in all probability shouldn’t have stated that. My employees will take care of that later.”
An adviser for Harris’s marketing campaign, Keisha Lance Bottoms, later stated that the comment on a break-in was a “joke.”
“It was a joke, and she or he knew that we might nonetheless be speaking about it as we speak, however I feel it‘s vital that folks know that the vp respects the suitable to bear arms, that she helps the Second Modification, however she needs accountable gun possession and she or he needs our communities to be protected,” Bottoms stated Friday on CNN.
The vp has additionally beforehand talked about being a gun proprietor amid her final presidential marketing campaign.
“So, similar to Kamala Harris has flipped on the problem of eager to have a southern border wall now, when she used to say it was racist, now she’s attempting to suggest that she’s scared like everybody else, so she has a gun to guard her household,” Comer stated in his look on Fox Information.
The Hill has reached out to the Harris marketing campaign for remark.