Kamala Harris: If Congress Won’t Act on Gun Control, I Will Via Executive Order as President

‘Upon being elected I will give the United States Congress 100 days to get their act together’

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HARRIS: "Thank you, Ben. And I’m sure that there are plenty of students here who, while you were in high school, even middle school, that you had to participate in a drill, right, where you were convened and your teachers taught you about how you need to go and run in a closet because there may be a mass shooter roaming the hallways of your school. And in our America, that should never have to happen. Conversations take place every night between students and their parents. Why do these things have to happen? Why do we have to have a drill like that? To which, of course, the response is because there are people in Washington, D.C., supposed leaders who have failed to have the courage to reject a false choice which suggests you’re either in favor of the Second Amendment or you want to take everyone’s guns away. Supposed leaders in Washington, D.C., who have failed to have the courage to recognize, 'You know what? You want to go hunting? That’s fine. But we need reasonable gun safety laws in this country starting with universal background checks and a renewal of the assault weapon ban.' But they have failed to have the courage to act. So, Ben, here’s my response to you. Upon being elected, I will give the United States Congress 100 days to get their act together and have the courage to pass reasonable gun safety laws. And if they fail to do it, then I will take executive action and specifically what I will do is put in place a requirement that for anyone who sells more than five guns a year they are required to do background checks when they sell those guns. I will require that for any gun dealer that breaks the law, the ATF take their license. And by the way, ATF - Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, well, the ATF has been doing a lot of the A and the T, but not much of the F, and we need to fix that."

(Via Washington Free Beacon)

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