{"id":1496001,"date":"2022-05-28T21:14:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T01:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1496001"},"modified":"2022-05-28T21:14:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T01:14:42","slug":"kamala-harris-calls-for-assault-weapons-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-calls-for-assault-weapons-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris Calls For \u2018Assault Weapons\u2019 Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkamala-harris-calls-for-assault-weapons-ban%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1496001&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Vice President Kamala Harris called for an \u201cassault weapons ban\u201d on Saturday after she attended the funeral service for the oldest of 10 people killed earlier this month by a mass shooter in Buffalo, New York.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a through line to what happened here in Texas, in Atlanta, in Orlando, what happened at the synagogues \u2026 this is a moment that requires all good people who are loving people to just say we will not stand for this. Enough is enough,\u201d Harris said Saturday during the funeral, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/kamala-harris-calls-for-assault-weapons-ban-following-mass-shootings-in-uvalde-and-buffalo-weapon-of-war-with-no-place-in-a-civil-society\/\">flagged<\/a> by Mediate.<\/p>\n<p>Harris added after the service, \u201ceverybody\u2019s got to stand up and agree that this should not be happening in our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not sitting around, waiting to figure out what the solution looks like,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know what works on this. It includes \u2014 let\u2019s have an assault weapons ban,\u201d Harris told the press.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Saturday, The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/kamala-harris-joins-sharpton-at-buffalo-funeral-says-america-experiencing-an-epidemic-of-hate\">reported<\/a> that the vice president and second gentleman Douglas Emhoff \u201cattended the memorial service for Ruth Whitfield at Mt. Olive Baptist Church along with the Rev. Al Sharpton. Whitfield, 86, was killed in the massacre at Tops Friendly Market on May 14.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cannot even begin to express our collective pain as a nation for what you are feeling in such an extreme way, to not only lose someone that you love, but through an act of extreme violence and hate,\u201d Harris said during the service. \u201cAnd I do believe that our nation right now is experiencing an epidemic of hate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{\" n>On May 14, The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/shooter-kills-10-wounds-three-in-buffalo-grocery-store-authorities-investigating-as-racially-motivated-attack\">reported<\/a> that \u201ca gunman killed 10 people and wounded three in a Buffalo grocery store, and allegedly targeted the establishment because of racial hatred and extremist ideology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The shooter, who will not be named per Daily Wire policy, also \u201callegedly live-streamed the horrendous tragedy on Twitch and drove \u2018hours\u2019 to the facility. Authorities claimed the shooter chose the Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo because of the racial demographics of the community in which it is located,\u201d The Daily Wire noted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThis was pure evil,\u201d Erie County Sheriff John Garcia\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/buffalo-supermarket-mass-shooting-leaves-7-dead-law-enforcement-source-rcna28883\">said<\/a> at the time. \u201cStraight up racially motivated, hate crime from somebody outside of our community \u2014 outside of the City of Good Neighbors, as the mayor said \u2014 coming into our community and trying to inflict evil upon us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whitfield\u2019s funeral and Harris\u2019 comments come just days after another mass shooter killed 19 children and two adults in Uvalde, Texas. The tragedies have reignited America\u2019s ongoing debate about gun control and Second Amendment rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Kamala Harris called for an \u201cassault weapons ban\u201d on Saturday after she attended the funeral service for the oldest of 10 people killed earlier this month by a mass shooter in Buffalo, New York. \u201cThere\u2019s a through line to what happened here in Texas, in Atlanta, in Orlando, what happened at the synagogues &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":1480546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1496001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1496001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1480546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1496001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1496001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1496001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}