By South China Morning Post | Created at 2024-09-26 05:03:02 | Updated at 2024-09-30 17:16:58
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Kamala Harris packs a gun – and wants Americans to know it.
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“I’m a gun owner,” the Democratic presidential candidate said last week in a forum hosted by television star Oprah Winfrey.
“If someone breaks in my house,” she said with a chuckle “they’re getting shot”.
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Harris has mentioned owning a firearm in the past, but she has mostly kept that quiet – in line with her party’s emphasis on curtailing access to guns in a country that has grown wearily used to armed crime and mass shootings.
The former long-time prosecutor also remains mum on exactly what kind of weapon she owns.
