“On the issue of gun violence, I will say, as I have said countless times, that we are not sitting around waiting to find out what the solution looks like. You know, we’re not looking for a vaccine, “Harris told reporters in Buffalo, New York, after attending the funeral of a mass shooting victim earlier this month. “We know what he’s working on. That includes, let’s have a ban on assault weapons. “
“Do you know what an assault weapon is? Do you know how an assault weapon is designed?” She continued. “It is designed for a specific purpose – to quickly kill many human beings. The offensive weapon is a weapon of war that has no place, no place in civil society.”
Harris, who had previously called for a ban on weapons of attack, also called for intensified inspections on Saturday amid purchases of firearms, noting that there have been more than 200 mass shootings in the country to date, although “only in the middle of the year. ” “
“Everyone must stand up and agree that this should not happen in our country and that we must have the courage to do something about it,” she said.
Harris did not answer a reporter’s question about whether President Joe Biden would pursue an executive order if Congress failed to pass a meaningful gun reform. The president said during a trip to Buffalo last week that he “cannot do much in terms of enforcement action” to further strengthen arms control measures. He said he should instead “persuade Congress” to pass legislation such as the 1994 attack ban. Biden will visit Uwalde, Texas, on Sunday to meet with the families of children and teachers killed in the mass shootings. in elementary school Rob. Harris was in Buffalo on Saturday with second gentleman Doug Emhoff to attend the funeral of 86-year-old Ruth E. Whitfield, the oldest victim of the May 14 shooting at Tops Friendly Markets.
During the service at the Baptist Church Mt. Olive, the vice president who was invited to speak by the Rev. Al Sharpton, said the nation was “experiencing an epidemic of hatred.”
Harris said that the present moment “requires all good people, all God-loving people, to stand up and say, ‘We will not stand for this – it is enough, we will come together based on what we all know we have in common, and we will not let us allow those people who are motivated by hatred to separate us or make us feel fear. “
Nickel Terry Ellis and Kate Sullivan of CNN contributed to this report.
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