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During Thursday’s press conference at Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump quickly shut down a reporter who asked if the attempted assassination against him had changed his views on gun ownership.
The 45th president powerfully stated, “No, it didn’t. Look, if you take away guns, she [Harris] wants to take away everyone’s gun. If you take away guns, you can’t do it because people need the guns for protection. Now, entertainment, they want it, hunting, they want, you know, different things, but they need weapons for protection in this country. People live out in the woods and they’re not gonna have a gun.”
Trump told reporters that some countries that had previously banned guns eventually reversed course, which resulted in significant crime reduction.
“And remember this. What is the toughest gun law in the United States? Chicago. On July 4, 117 people were shot and 17 died. The toughest gun laws in the United States are in the city of Chicago, you know that. They had 117 people shot. Afghanistan does not have that,” he added.
Many Democrats have long called for additional gun control measures. On Aug. 4, Biden re-upped his call for an assault weapons ban and a ban on high-capacity magazines.
The Harris campaign recently launched a camouflaged-colored hat, drawing instant backlash from the National Rifle Association (NRA).
“A camo hat can’t camouflage the fact that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are gun-grabbing radicals who support confiscating firearms from law-abiding hunters and gun owners,” the NRA’s X account shared in a quote from Randy Kozuch, the executive director of the NRA Institute for Legislative Action.
The vice president’s radical views on gun control add to additional concerns related to her perspective on law enforcement. During one MSNBC interview, Harris remarked, “The status quo has been to determine and create policy around the idea that more police equals more safety, and that’s just wrong.”
Harris also said, “It is outdated and it is actually wrong and backward to think that more police officers will create more safety.”
