While news was breaking of multiple Philadelphia police officers shot on Wednesday, CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer offered Sen. Kamala Harris an opportunity to explain her gun policies.
“You’re a former attorney general of California, what’s your reaction to the initial reports, and I stress the words initial reports?” Blitzer asked.
“It is one — when will it stop, right? Part of my focus on what we need to do around smart gun safety laws is recognize we have to have more enforcement around gun dealers. Wolf, 90% of the guns that are associated with crime are sold by just 5% of the gun dealers in the United States,” Harris said.
“And so among the many plans that have I both in the form of executive action and also in the form of legislation, one of them is to put more resources into the ATF to take the licenses of gun dealers who violate the law. And that includes a number of things, including when they are responsible for doing background checks, not doing them,” she said.
The California Democrat called for Congress to act on firearms because “we do not lack for good ideas. We do not lack for tragedies. The failure of Congress, however, the United States Congress to act on passing smart gun safety laws is the issue.”
Harris repeated her plan that if she is elected president, she will give Congress 100 days to pass strict gun control legislation. If they do not meet her deadline, then she will take executive action.
