Comer says Harris should prove she's a gun owner by telling Americans 'what type' she has
Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) said Sunday that Vice President Harris should prove she’s a gun owner by telling Americans “what type of gun she has.”
“Well, look, I don't think anyone believes that Kamala Harris is a gun owner,” Comer said on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures” with anchor Maria Bartiromo. “But if she is, she needs to tell the American people what type of gun she has.”
At a campaign event earlier this week, Harris stated that if someone were to break into her house, “they’re getting shot.” Harris’s comments on a possible break-in came in response to Oprah Winfrey raising that the vice president is a gun owner, something that Harris also mentioned during her recent debate against former President Trump.
“If somebody breaks into my house, they’re getting shot,” Harris said Thursday, laughing. “I probably should not have said that. My staff will deal with that later.”
An adviser for Harris’s campaign, Keisha Lance Bottoms, later said that the comment on a break-in was a “joke.”
“It was a joke, and she knew that we would still be talking about it today, but I think it‘s important that people know that the vice president respects the right to bear arms, that she supports the Second Amendment, but she wants responsible gun ownership and she wants our communities to be safe,” Bottoms said Friday on CNN.
The vice president has also previously talked about being a gun owner amid her last presidential campaign.
“So, just like Kamala Harris has flipped on the issue of wanting to have a southern border wall now, when she used to say it was racist, now she's trying to imply that she's scared like everyone else, so she has a gun to protect her family,” Comer said in his appearance on Fox News.
The Hill has reached out to the Harris campaign for comment.
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