Campaigning in South Carolina after a private visit Friday to the site of the 2015 mass shooting at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, California Sen. Kamala Harris renewed her call for universal background checks and an assault weapons ban.
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“We’re not waiting for another tragedy to figure out that we need smart gun safety laws because we’ve seen every tragedy that we can imagine,” Harris told a packed gymnasium of voters on Friday night in North Charleston. “We’ve seen assault weapons kill babies and police officers. There’s no need for assault weapons in a civil society. We don’t need them. Let’s ban them. These are reasonable, good ideas.”
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