Vice President Kamala Harris lied about her position on gun confiscation during Tuesday night’s debate, and despite knowing that it was a lie, ABC News moderator David Muir left her to persist, unchecked.
In a rebuttal to former President Donald Trump — who had accurately stated that Harris had voiced support for gun confiscation via mandatory buyback programs — the Vice President claimed that she was a gun owner and declared that she had no intention of taking anyone’s guns.
In 2020, ABC’s David Muir & Joe Biden called Kamala Harris out for wanting to issue an Executive Order to take away people’s guns.
Last night, Muir sat there and let Kamala lie and say that she wasn’t going to take anyone’s guns away. pic.twitter.com/aDt2ZN3spu
— Media Research Center (@theMRC) September 11, 2024
“She is destroying our country. She has a plan to defund the police. She has a plan to confiscate everybody’s gun. She has a plan to not allow fracking in Pennsylvania or anywhere else,” Trump asserted.
“Tim Walz and I are both gun owners. We’re not taking anybody’s guns away,” Harris insisted in reply, adding, “Stop with the continuous lying about this stuff.”
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She had previously alluded to her personal firearm during her ill-fated presidential campaign in 2019, saying, “I am a gun owner, and I own a gun for probably the reason a lot of people do — for personal safety. I was a career prosecutor.”
But Harris did say that she favored mandatory gun buybacks, a position challenged during one of the 2019 primary debates by then-candidate Joe Biden and moderator David Muir.
During that debate, Biden argued that gun buybacks could not be enacted via executive order. Muir pressed Harris for a response, asking, “Does the Vice President have a point there?”
“I would say hey, Joe, instead of saying no we can’t, let’s say yes we can,” she said, tossing her hair and laughing.
“Let’s be constitutional,” Biden shot back. “We got a constitution.”
“Yes we can,” Harris insisted, still laughing.