Vice President Kamala Harris disgustingly used the funeral of one of the victims of the Buffalo massacre as an opportunity to make a political speech.
She spoke at the funeral for Ruth Whitfield, 86, one of 10 people killed by a self proclaimed white supremacist on May 10.
“I cannot even begin to express our collective pain as a nation for what you are feeling in such an extreme way,” she said, decrying the nation as, essentially, racist. “To not only lose someone that you love, but through an act of extreme violence and hate. And I do believe that our nation right now is experiencing the epidemic of hate.”
Vice Pres. Kamala Harris at the funeral of Buffalo shooting victim: "This is a moment that requires all good people…to stand up and say we will not stand for this. Enough is enough. We will come together based on what we all know we have in common." https://t.co/q0nauBhuB3 pic.twitter.com/7Jdv12w6v0
— ABC News (@ABC) May 28, 2022
After the funeral, as she was getting set to board Air Force 2, she used the occasion to call for a ban on assault weapons.
“We are not sitting around waiting to figure out what the solution looks like. You know, we’re not looking for a vaccine. We know what works on this,” she said at the Buffalo Niagara International Airport, “Let’s have an assault weapons ban.”
“You know what an assault weapon is?” she said. “You know how an assault weapon was designed? It was designed for a specific purpose – to kill a lot of human beings quickly. An assault weapon is a weapon of war with no place, no place in a civil society.”
“Background checks. Why should anyone be able to buy a weapon that can kill other human beings without at least knowing, Hey, has that person committed a violent crime before? Are they a threat against themselves or others? That’s just reasonable. Just reasonable!” she said.
"You know what an assault weapon is? … It was designed for a specific purpose: to kill a lot of human beings quickly."
US Vice President Kamala Harris calls for an assault weapons ban in the wake of mass shootings in Uvalde and Buffalo this month. pic.twitter.com/1BnrZKfhIj
— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) May 29, 2022
She also took to Twitter to plead her case.
“The senseless killings from guns have to stop. Congress must take action and have the courage to ensure these attacks do not happen again. Expand background checks. Renew the ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. Get this done,” she argued in one tweet.
The senseless killings from guns have to stop. Congress must take action and have the courage to ensure these attacks do not happen again. Expand background checks. Renew the ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. Get this done. pic.twitter.com/NVPKBcyOw2
— Vice President Kamala Harris Archived (@VP46Archive) May 28, 2022
“Congress must have the courage to stand up, once and for all, to the gun lobby and pass reasonable gun safety laws,” she said.
Congress must have the courage to stand up, once and for all, to the gun lobby and pass reasonable gun safety laws.
— Vice President Kamala Harris Archived (@VP46Archive) May 28, 2022
She was joined in her calls by President Joe Biden.
“Congress needs to pass universal background checks, ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and confirm Steve Dettelbach as head of the ATF. It’s time to turn this pain into action,” he said on Twitter.
Congress needs to pass universal background checks, ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and confirm Steve Dettelbach as head of the ATF.
It’s time to turn this pain into action.
— President Biden Archived (@POTUS46Archive) May 26, 2022
“It’s just sick that gun manufacturers have spent two decades aggressively marketing assault weapons which make them some of the biggest profits. For God’s sake, let’s have the courage to stand up to the industry,” he said.
It’s just sick that gun manufacturers have spent two decades aggressively marketing assault weapons which make them some of the biggest profits.
For God’s sake, let’s have the courage to stand up to the industry.
— President Biden Archived (@POTUS46Archive) May 25, 2022
“The idea that an 18-year-old can walk into a store and buy assault weapons is just wrong. What in God’s name do you need an assault weapon for except to kill someone?” the president said.
The idea that an 18-year-old can walk into a store and buy assault weapons is just wrong.
What in God’s name do you need an assault weapon for except to kill someone?
— President Biden Archived (@POTUS46Archive) May 25, 2022
“We know common sense gun laws can’t and won’t prevent every tragedy. But we know they work and have a positive impact. When we passed the assault weapons ban — mass shootings went down. When the law expired — mass shootings tripled,” he said in his tirade.
As a nation we must ask: When in God’s name will we stand up to the gun lobby?
When in God’s name will we do what needs to be done?
I’m sick and tired of it. We have to act.
— President Biden Archived (@POTUS46Archive) May 25, 2022
“As a nation we must ask: When in God’s name will we stand up to the gun lobby? When in God’s name will we do what needs to be done? I’m sick and tired of it. We have to act,” he said.
As a nation we must ask: When in God’s name will we stand up to the gun lobby?
When in God’s name will we do what needs to be done?
I’m sick and tired of it. We have to act.
— President Biden Archived (@POTUS46Archive) May 25, 2022
He made similar statements when he spoke to the nation on the night of the Uvalde tragedy.
As a nation, we have to ask: When in God’s name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby? When in God’s name will we do what we all know in our gut needs to be done?
It’s been 340- — 3,448 days — 10 years since I stood up at a high school in Connecticut — a grade school in Connecticut, where another gunman massacred 26 people, including 20 first graders, at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Since then, there have been over 900 incidents of gunfires reported on school grounds.
Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Santa Fe High School in Texas. Oxford High School in Michigan. The list goes on and on.
“Deer aren’t running through the forest with Kevlar vests on, for God’s sake. It’s just sick,” he said, again, as if the reason for the Second Amendment is to hunt deer.
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