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Vice President Kamala Harris called for a ban on “assault weapons” on Saturday after speaking at the funeral of a woman killed in the mass shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, earlier this year. month.
He described the firearm as a “weapon of war” that “has no place in civil society.”
“We’re not sitting around waiting to find out what the solution is. You know, we’re not looking for a vaccine. We know what works,” he told reporters outside Air Force Two at Buffalo Niagara International Airport. , referring to the series of mass shootings that have affected the US “We will have a ban on assault weapons”.
The vice president had spoken at the funeral of 86-year-old Ruth Whitfield, one of 10 black people killed at a Tops supermarket on May 14 by a self-proclaimed white supremacist. In Whitfield’s service, Harris said the United States is experiencing a “hate epidemic.”
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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks alongside the Rev. Al Sharpton during a memorial service for Ruth Whitfield, a victim of the Buffalo Supermarket shooting, at Mt. Olive, Saturday, May 28, 2022 in Buffalo, New York (AP Photo / Patrick) Semansky) (Photo AP / Patrick Semansky)
Harris told the funeral that Scripture teaches about strength, and that strength is based on who you “lift” rather than “whom you struck.”
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“And it also means, with that strength, understanding that we will not allow small people to create fear in our communities that we will not be afraid to stand up for what is right, to speak up even when it is difficult to hear and speak.” he said.
She continued, “That’s enough.”
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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks with members of the press before boarding Air Force Two at Buffalo Niagara International Airport on Saturday, May 28, 2022 in Buffalo, (AP Photo / Patrick Semansky)
While “assault weapons” is a broad term, Harris certainly referred to pistols as the AR-15-style rifles used in both the May 14 Buffalo shootout and the school shooting. ‘Uvalde, Texas, which left 19 children and two teachers dead.
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A monument is seen around the Robb Elementary School poster after the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School on May 26, 2022 in Uvalde, Texas. (Photo by Brandon Bell / Getty Images)
She told reporters before boarding the plane, “Do you know what an assault weapon is? Do you know how an assault weapon was designed? It was designed for a specific purpose: to kill many humans quickly. an assault weapon is a weapon of war with no place, no place in a civil society. “