Kamala Harris slams Congress’ ‘regrettable’ response to mass shootings

vice president kamala harris called out members of Congress for their “regrettable” response to gun violence following more than 160 mass shootings this year, including one that four dead and another 28 injured at a birthday party in Alabama last week. (You can see their comments below)

Harris advocated for “reasonable gun safety laws” during remarks in New York City last week and, in an appearance Thursday on “The Jennifer Hudson Show,” questioned why lawmakers don’t “have the courage to stand up to the gun lobby” and the National Gun Association. Rifle.

“I just think it’s unfortunate that people in the United States Congress don’t have the courage to stand up to the gun lobby, stand up to the NRA and say, ‘Look, I support the Second Amendment, but we need reasonable gun safety laws. weapons. ‘” Harris said.

Harris’ comments came during an interview with Jennifer Hudson, whose mother Darnell Donerson and brother Jason Hudson. They were found shot to death inside Donerson’s home in 2008.

The singer’s seven-year-old nephew, Julian King, was also reported missing and, three days later, was found dead of gunshot wounds in a car. William Balfour, the estranged husband of her sister, was convicted of three counts of murder in 2012 and he is serving a life sentence.

Harris, in another part of the interview, criticized the presentation of a “false choice” between the Second Amendment and gun safety laws.

“The point is to say that it is reasonable for us to have background checks because it is reasonable for you to want to know if someone has been determined by a court to be a danger to themselves or others before they can buy a gun,” he said. saying.

“It’s just reasonable. It’s just reasonable. It is reasonable to say that weapons of war have no place on the streets of the United States and by that I mean assault weapons.”

12,800 people have died as a result of gun violence in the US in a year marked by 166 mass shootings, a number more than the number of days in 2023, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive.