Screenshot of Kamala Harris Interview on YouTube

It was quite surprising to hear it when it happened but Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for president, was fact checked in real time about the real drivers of criminal gun violence. She was tripped up on her answer because the journalist pressing her wasn’t buying the vice president’s tired talking points.

It happened during an interview of the vice president at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) after one of the questioners asked Vice President Harris about her gun control platform. The question is asked at the 32:37 mark.

For those needing any reminding, the Biden-Harris administration has been the most fervently anti-gun administration in history. Vice President Harris, as the administration’s “gun czar,” has infamously instituted a “whole-of-government” attack on the firearm and ammunition industry and the Second Amendment. She is colluding with gun control groups – who literally operate out of her office. As President Joe Biden’s “gun czar,” Harris has continually failed to bring criminals to account for their crimes.

Vice President Kamala Harris tries to claim to voters in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia and other close-polling states that she “isn’t taking anyone’s guns away from them” while in the same breath calling for a ban and confiscation of an entire class of lawfully made and legally purchased firearms – the most popular rifle in America. That’s just about the extent of her “plan” to reduce criminal gun violence. But finally, she received pushback for specifics that voters deserve to hear.

Please Answer the Question

Whenever Vice President Kamala Harris has been asked about criminals committing gun crimes, her response is predictably always the same. She calls for more gun control on law-abiding Americans, lists a kitchen sink full of anti-Second Amendment talking points and blames Congress for inaction. This is despite the fact that for the first two years of the Biden-Harris administration, Democrats controlled both chambers in Congress and The White House. She never mentions that not even all Democrats in the U.S. Senate supported a bill to reinstate, and expanded, a so-called “assault weapons” ban. That doesn’t stop the vice president from repeating those calls. But the interviewers at the NABJ wanted more specifics from her.

“In cities like Philadelphia, handguns are responsible for most homicides and violent crime,” NPR’s Tonya Mosely began. “How will you address the issue of the use of handguns because a push for an assault weapons ban only addresses, um, a significant but small part of the problem?”

The vice president began her answer by repeating the talking point that she and her running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz were both gun owners. She claimed “we’re not trying to take anyone’s guns away from them. But we do need an assault weapons ban.” As she continued to filibuster her answer about how Modern Sporting Rifles (MSRs) need to be banned and universal background checks must be implemented, Mosely interrupted and pressed her further.

“Respectfully, we do understand that. But I’m asking specifically about handguns because many of those handguns aren’t purchased at places that run background checks. In many of those instances those handguns aren’t bought lawfully.”

The vice president was stumped. She had no response to the logical reasoning that the firearm industry continues to highlight when calls for gun control are made – that criminals do not follow the law. NSSF has reported on Department of Justice data that shows 90 percent of firearms used by criminals in the commission of their crime were obtained through illicit means and not at a firearm retailer. It’s also one of the main reasons why universal background checks won’t work. That and the fact that a national firearm registry is prohibited by law under the Gun Control Act of 1986 and the Brady Act of 1993.

Shift the Conversation

Vice President Harris noticeably paused and shifted her answer to another gun control cliché – gun shows.

“It’s why I have also been adamant about for years, in fact, I myself have protested at a gun show – probably ten, fifteen years ago,” the vice president said. “But the gun show loophole and why we need to close that. Because what ends up happening is that gun shows at flea markets, gun dealers are not, under existing law in the past, required to register their sales.”

According to the Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics, data reveals that of prison inmates who possessed a gun while committing a crime, fewer than 1 percent (0.8) had obtained the firearm at a gun show. In addition, firearms that are purchased at a gun show must still be transferred through a federal firearms licensee with a processed FBI NICS verification. The “gun show loophole” the vice president references is a myth.

She began to wrap up her answer by unironically hitting the nail on the head. “And so you are exactly right, that a lot of homicides for example…are committed with illegally purchased guns.”

There’s more in her response but what she did not mention was getting tough on criminals, especially repeat offenders who often get out of jail or are released without even going to jail. She did not mention supporting law enforcement in their role to protect communities and keep neighborhoods safe. In Washington, D.C., for instance, the U.S. attorney’s own recent report reveals as few as 500 identifiable people, many of them involved in neighborhood crews or cliques, are responsible for 70 percent of the city’s shootings.

Prevention

One point the vice president did touch on that the firearm industry agrees with, though approaches in vastly different ways, is crime prevention. It’s why the firearm industry is so serious about the Real Solutions. Safer Communities®. initiatives that have a proven record of reducing firearm thefts from mom and pop retail locations, preventing the illegal purchasing of firearms by straw purchasers and ensuring lawful gun owners understand the importance of and practice safe and responsible firearm storage in the home when their firearms are not in use.

Vice President Kamala Harris will pursue a stringent gun control agenda should she win presidency in November, there’s no question about it. The firearm industry continues to cooperate with law enforcement to try to reduce firearm crimes and tragedies while at the same time respecting Constitutional rights to keep and bear arms. Voters across the country must get registered to vote, educate themselves on where the candidates stand on issues and, most importantly, turn out to vote on or before November 5th.

There’s too much at stake. The Second Amendment is on the ballot. Don’t Risk Your Rights – #GUNVOTE.

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50 COMMENTS

    • I’d like to see her 4473, did she lie on the MJ question? She admitted smoking jazz cabbage while laughing about the people she locked away. Or, did she buy her gun using the dreaded “gunshow loophole” to avoid that question?

      • Actually, the gun that Kommyla owns is a squirt gun. She keeps it loaded with rat piss because she has easy access to rat piss and bullshit.

  2. No content, no solutions, no real critical thought just an attempt at a power grab and it starting to show even to their own lefty base through a controlled media…………yeah we are probably going to war.

  4. I think it was Colion Noire being interviewed on television who pointed out that while she was SF DA, she was party to a bill that proposed banning all handguns in the City, and even argue the case to SCOTUS. She lost. But that has not changed her stance. Maybe she won’t take guns away, but that doesn’t mean she won’t try to ban th manufacture and sale of new ones.

    • She effectively banned all new semi autos in California by mandating microstamping. Completely intentionally. It being impossible to implement was a feature, not a bug.

      • I have a Ruger SBH single action that is not legal for sale in California. I’m not sure if any double action revolvers are legal in that state.

        • Vinny,

          I am nearly certain that various double-action revolvers are legal for sale in California. The trick is whether or not any of them are still in production and widely available for sale.

    • “while she was SF DA, she was party to a bill“

      You are an attorney, what do you mean by “party to a bill”?

      “Party” has a very distinct meaning in our legal system.

      Laws are written and passed by legislators, and then signed into law by the executive.

      No city, county or state district attorneys are involved in the legislative process as far as I know.

      • Just like hunter isn’t an elected official. Or jill. No way they can get involved in the process of .gov, right.

        • Jill is the pinch hitter. The Puppet is barely capable of reading a teleprompter at this point, much less making any decisions. Democrat drones have no understanding of what a threat to democracy is.

          Back when Edith Wilson was the pinch hitter, they had to hide it. Americans wouldn’t have stood for that for a second. Why do they allow this blatant behavior now? Their brains have been damaged by decades of propaganda. Yuri Bezmenov knew what he was talking about.

          • Not a lawyer. But I cannot believe this doesn’t add up to criminal charges all around.

            At the very least it is elder abuse.

      • MINOR49er, Then you don’t know very much. DA’s often lobby for certain laws that are their “pets.” You are either delusional or intentionally lying.

        • Walter,

          But . must embrace the healing power of “and”, my brother!!! MajorMistake is, and always has been, BOTH delusional AND an intentional liar. It’s kinda his ‘brand’, donchaknow.

    • “argue the case to SCOTUS” There is no way this moronic dingbat argued anything before SCOTUS. Please sight a ref.

      • “Please sight a ref.“

        There’s no reference in sight, nor cited, because the SF DA would not be representing the state before the United States Supreme Court.

        “No way they can get involved in the process of .gov“

        Presidents can accept advice and counsel from anyone they wish.

        “DA’s often lobby“

        Sure, any citizen can express their opinion. But that is far a different thing from being a “party” or arguing before the SCOTUS, which was the claim in the original post.

  5. Long range perspective: even if Constitutional Kurt wins next month, we will have 2028 to contend with and beyond. Marxists Democrats) are power addicts and they won’t quit harassing us until they are left with consequences forced to or they are exiled from the country. We have to get the school systems back. Other than this, they will exist until there is civil war….

      • You May be correct as a CIVIL WAR was Brother against Brother and an issue of States Rights.
        Whereas there would be a REAL possibility of a New REVOLUTION pitting the Citizens of this country AGAINST a TYRANICAL Government intent on turning Citizens into Slaves/Serfs.
        Words Matter.

        • James,

          Note that many members of Ruling Class want to go WAY beyond treating us as slaves/serfs. Rather, they want absolute ability to use, abuse, exploit, consume, demean, silence, injure, torture, and murder the masses for “entertainment”, money, and power. It’s almost like many members of the Ruling Class have a design to reduce the masses under absolute despotism. Hmm. Where have I heard that before?

        • Come now, don’t be coy… Finish the sentence:

          “CIVIL WAR was Brother against Brother and an issue of States Rights to own people as property and SA underage enslaved girls and boys”

          • …. it was started when the southern Democrat land owners refused to convert to an agronomy based farming system, insisting on trying to get rich with their single, cotton crop ststem. When Abe Lincoln , a Republican, was elected President, they lost their shit and started to secede from the country. Further, newly acquired lands were deemed to be either non-slavery or closely regulated, and while nearly all Republicans were anti-slavery, in- fighting among the Democrats further pissed off the old money plantation owners to break away even from “their party”. The rest is history, something you apparently slept through.

            • “southern Democrat land owners”

              “The democrats fought a war for slavery“

              Yep, isn’t it amazing how political parties change over time? By the time Richard Nixon instituted his ‘Southern Strategy’ many Democrats had come to support civil rights for minorities, including the President of the United States Democrat LBJ.

              “In American politics the Southern strategy was a Republican Party electoral strategy to increase political support among white voters in the South by appealing to racism against African Americans.[1][2][3] As the civil rights movement and dismantling of Jim Crow laws in the 1950s and 1960s visibly deepened existing racial tensions in much of the Southern United States, Republican politicians such as presidential candidate Richard Nixon and Senator Barry Goldwater developed strategies that successfully contributed to the political realignment of many white, conservative voters in the South who had traditionally supported the Democratic Party. It also helped to push the Republican Party much more to the right relative to the 1950s.“

              The actual facts of political history can be so entertaining

              • MajorLiar,

                Are you simply incapable of telling (or even recognizing) the truth? (Sorry, that’s a rhetorical question; you wouldn’t recognize truth if it fell out of the sky, landed on your face, and started to wiggle).

                Please, LIST for me the known, elected Southern Democrats who switched party affiliations. Surely, there must be THOUSANDS of them, amirite. Now, I’m happy to list the Dimocrats, who were known and admitted KKK bigwigs, that (P)resident Senile Joe lauded for their accomplishments.

                Please recite for us, lying sh*tbag, the relative percentages of of both parties in Congress who voted for and against the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. Tell us, MajorLiar, would EITHER of those bills have passed WITHOUT Republican (majority, BTW) votes?? Why, . . . NO, no they wouldn’t have!!! Mirabile dictu, you lying liar who lies.

                The entire “Southern strategy” lie has been debunked so many times it is both amazing, and shameful, that even a pathetic, lying, partisan, narrative-spouting propagandist such as yourself would even attempt to run this pathetic lie, again.

                I am NOT a Republican (haven’t been for 20+ years), but even I agree that the Republican Party, inept losers that they are, were founded as, won a Civil War as, did Reconstruction as (at least until the DIMOCRAT Andrew Johnson came along, after ANOTHER Dimocrat assassinated Lincoln) as, repealed many of the Jim Crow laws as, and REMAIN the party of freedom and equality of OPPORTUNITY.

                Your lies become more desperate and threadbare by the day as you watch your UNELECTED, brainless, kneepad-wearing idiot puppet of a backstabbing, power-grabbing slut try to pretend to be serious about matters she is literally INCAPABLE of understanding.

                Be fun to watch you Leftist/fascists crying when your “fortified” attempt to steal the election come to naught. Trump ain’t my favorite, but his obvious superiority over the likes of Kamal-toe the Ho and lying Timmy “Stolen Valor” Walz makes this election a no-brainer . . . which should make it easy for folks like you, since “no-brainer” is your middle name. But, like always, you’ll find a way to take an OBVIOUS choice and . . . .make the obviously wrong decision.

          • The democrats fought a war for slavery. They formed the klan. They actively resisted the civil rights movement. And now they actively support fascism in this country.

            The dems should be banned. Their property and assets seized and put into a fund to pay reparations and their people should be put on reservations in Nevada.

            Use the same camps the dems used to warehouse people during ww2 based solely on race.

            • “The democrats fought a war for slavery“

              That’s far too simplistic to convey the actual situation.

              More accurately, the southern states fought a war for slavery, and the prevailing political party in the south was the Democrats.

              But the northern states that fought the war weren’t solidly Republican, that’s a myth.

              It was more about slavery and geography, as opposed to political party.

              For example, take Pennsylvania in 1864:

              Republican
              296,391 51.75%
              Democratic
              276,316 48.25%

              Slaveowners used the Bible as justification for their practice of slavery, owning people as property and passing them on to their children.

              • MajorLiar,

                Please, educate us, MajorLiar – which Republican politicians in the pre-Civil War era, up through Reconstruction (until that LYING Dimocrat sh*tbag, Andrew Johnson took over after ANOTHER vicious Dimocrat assassin shot Lincoln) were slave owners??? What major ECONOMIC issues were part of the lead up to the Civil War??? The Civil War was simply ONE of the major examples of how Leftist/fascist Dimocrats, once they achieve power, will do ANYTHING to hold onto it . . . up to and including a Civil War that killed more Americans than ALL other wars the US has been involved in, combined.

                We KNOW that you are a lying sh*tbag, determined to support your deluded narrative by whatever lies you deem necessary, but don’t be coming on a site like this, where people with ACTUAL knowledge of history hang out, and try to peddle your transparent, lying bullsh*t . . . we ain’t buyin’, chief.

                The Dimocrat (Leftist/fascist) party is, and ALWAYS has been, the party of slavery, and “helping the blacks” (by keeping them on the plantation). Your lies cannot hide that simple truth from anyone with eyes and a functioning brain. But keep babbling your ignorant lies . . . it’s amusing, watching you flounder as your narrative falls apart before your eyes, and the pathetic Harris/Walz ticket flames out in real time. The ONLY chance you idiots have is “the steal”, so those midnight “mail-in ballots” and mysteriously misplaced ballot boxes better be standing by.

                Sued to keep any candidates off the ballot, lately??? Or even sued to keep a candidate ON the ballot after the candidate VOLUNTARILY WITHDREW, and endorsed a candidate you didn’t like??? NO? Then you ain’t a real Leftist/facist (in the words of your FORMER brainless, senile puppet of a candidate).

          • Tell us, MINOR49er? Where are the millions of undocumented that Biden/Harris have lost?

    • If we don’t rein in our educational system and stop the indoctrination of those who are most vulnerable in our country, we are either headed for a civil war or a Marxist form of government.

  7. Why does anyone think that there is any credibility in anything that Kamala Harris (or pretty much any politician for that matter) says?

    Suppose a random stranger knocks on your door. He/she is dressed in fine business attire and has a very polished way about him/her. Then he/she asks you to sign-over your entire life–income, retirement, property, security, privacy, rights–for safekeeping because he/she is a wonderful and trustworthy person. Would you sign-over everything? No? Then why would you entrust your entire life to a politician who is nothing more than a polished and sharp-dressed stranger?

    And even if you are going to sign-over your entire life to a politician, at least do it based on what that politician and his/her political party have done in the past because their actions, not their words, reveal their true identities and goals.

  9. Kommyla is a political chameleon who will say anything to get elected. Remember this if you remember nothing else. Judge them by what they do and not by what they say.

  11. The 1st amendment is for everyone. Because even the founders knew the “press” was corrupt.

    The answer to a corrupt press is a moral people who will speak out. And challenge the immoral members of the organized press.

    The organized press is as anti-civil rights as they were in the southern states in the 1950s or the 1850s.

    • “The answer to a corrupt press is a moral people“

      Does that “moral people” include Donald Trump, serial adulterer with five kids by three different wives, proven fornicator with porn stars and penthouse pets, convicted felon and adjudicated rapist?

      • I dunno, MajorLiar, does it include a serial LIAR (almost as bad as you!) who repeatedly claimed deployment in combat zones to which he had NEVER DEPLOYED, and claims a rank he NEVER EARNED, and who allowed his state to burn in repeated Burn/Loot?Murder riots??? And his running mate, the wanna-be President, who came in THIRD among Dimocrats in her OWN STATE, had a series of affairs (quite publicly) with married men, was famous for her oral skills (but CERTAINLY not her oratorical skills!) and then married the scumbag who dheated with his babysitter, got her knocked up, then basically threatened her into an abortion:???

        Your morals are as bereft of substance as your narrative. Go micturate up a cuble, you lying liar who lies.

  12. ATF or Cops Taking Your Guns? STOP Them LEGALLY!!

    h ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf8kNnGeHds

  13. If the democrats sweep the election and get full control of the government, 2/3’s of Scotus will be purged and we will have Cuban-Style Gun Control by January 2026

    • I would like to see those on the Supreme Court who have received millions in ‘gifts’ be held accountable for their corruption.

      “Clarence Thomas’ 38 Vacations: The Other Billionaires Who Have Treated the Supreme Court Justice to Luxury Travel
      by Brett Murphy and Alex Mierjeski
      Aug. 10, 2023, 5:45 a.m. EDT

      At least 38 destination vacations, including a previously unreported voyage on a yacht around the Bahamas; 26 private jet flights, plus an additional eight by helicopter; a dozen VIP passes to professional and college sporting events, typically perched in the skybox; two stays at luxury resorts in Florida and Jamaica; and one standing invitation to an uber-exclusive golf club overlooking the Atlantic coast.“

      “Justice Clarence Thomas acknowledges he should have disclosed free trips from Texas billionaire

      The trips include vacations in Indonesia and at the exclusive, men’s-only Bohemian Grove retreat, which were first reported by ProPublica last year.
      BY ALEX MIERJESKI, JOSHUA KAPLAN AND JUSTIN ELLIOTT, PROPUBLICA
      JUNE 7, 2024

      Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas acknowledged for the first time in a new financial disclosure filing that he should have publicly reported two free vacations he received from Dallas billionaire Harlan Crow.

      The pair of 2019 trips, one to Indonesia and the other to the Bohemian Grove, an all-male retreat in northern California, were first revealed by ProPublica. Last year, Thomas argued that he did not need to disclose such gifts. “Justice Thomas’s critics allege that he failed to report gifts from wealthy friends,” his lawyer previously said in a statement issued on the justice’s behalf. “Untrue.”

      In the new filing released Friday, however, Thomas amended his financial disclosure for 2019, writing that he “inadvertently omitted” the trips on his previous reports.“

  14. I can’t speak for others. Wouldn’t want to try in any case. That said, I do wonder as to who it is that writes the Vice Presidents script.

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