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Gail Collins: Bret, Kamala Harris sure seems proud of her gun ownershiprich9, doesn’t she?
Bret Stephens: Think of Aretha Franklin singing, “G-L-O-C-K (E), find out what it means to me.”
Gail: Hadn’t thought about it until she told Oprah Winfrey that if someone breaks into her house, “they’re getting shot.” What do you think?
Bret: Well, Harris lives in the heavily guarded Washington Naval Observatory, so you kinda expect intruders would not fare well. But assuming she intends to be the one doing the shooting, that’s fine by me. And it sends a smart political signal that she is not some crunchy-granola liberal who believes that guns are intrinsically evil.
Gail: Guess that was the idea.
Bret: It also represents a recent trend in which firearms are starting to become more popular among Democratic-leaning voters, including women. Do you see this as positive?
Gail: Um, no. In a perfect world, I’d ban handguns altogether. The chances that one stored in the home will be misused, often by kids with fatal results, are high.
Bret: A good way to address misuse is to require gun owners to take out gun-liability insurance. Just like with cars, it makes for responsible ownership. Sorry, you were saying?
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