Vice President Kamala Harris urged Congress on Wednesday to pass gun safety laws in the wake of two recent mass shootings in the country.
Harris told CBS This Morning that President Biden did not rule out taking executive action against weapons, but said, “If we really want something that lasts, we have to pass legislation.”
“It is time for Congress to take action and stop making the wrong choices. This is not about deleting the second amendment. It’s simply saying that we need reasonable gun safety laws, ”said Harris.
The vice president said, “I am not willing to give up what we must do to appeal to the hearts and minds and reason of the members of the United States Senate. I have served in that body and I believe it is possible, it must be possible for people to agree that these slaughters must stop. “
Harris said she believed the Sandy Hook shooting that killed 26 people, including 20 children, would have prompted Congress to act.
“How, when 20 6- and 7-year-old babies were butchered, and they didn’t act, and they didn’t act,” Harris said.
Biden is facing increasing pressure to respond to guns in the wake of the latest mass shootings in Boulder, Colorado and the Atlanta area.
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