Vice President Kamala Harris has in recent weeks claimed to be a proud gun owner who is not afraid to exercise her Second Amendment right to self-defense. The Democrat’s radical gun control track record, especially during her tenure in California politics, however, shows she tried to ban the type of firearm she claims to own.
“What kind of gun do you own, and when and why’d you get it?” “60 Minutes” Correspondent Bill Whitaker asked Harris during the pair’s Oct. 7 sitdown.
“I have a Glock,” Harris claimed.
Contrary to what the Harris campaign’s social media posts suggest, “Glock,” is not a type of firearm, but the name of a popular handgun manufacturing company. Not only should the “g” in Glock be capitalized to reflect it is a proper noun, but Harris should have elaborated further on what specific type of Glock she claims to own by naming the model and caliber.
She did not, and Whitaker put himself in the camp of corporate media mouthpieces who have no business reporting about guns because they know nothing about them by failing to press her further on her vague answer.
Instead, after the VP asserted that she had the firearm “for quite some time” because “my background is in law enforcement,” Whitaker wondered if Harris had ever “fired” her weapon.
“Yes, of course,” Harris said through laughs. “At a shooting range. Yes, of course I have.”
Harris’ CBS sitdown may not have given Americans much more clarity on the
