Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has brutally shaded Republicans who criticized the way he handled his shotgun while pheasant hunting in his home state.
The vice presidential candidate appeared on this morning’s episode of The View, where co-host Joy Behar asked for his perspective on the Second Amendment as someone who is both a Democrat and a gun owner.
“Both you and Vice President [Kamala] Harris have leaned into your gun ownership. She’s got a Glock and she says she’s not afraid to use it on intruders. You’re out hunting pheasants,” Behar began. “Is that enough to convince people there’s a middle ground on this issue? Because right now right-wingers are coming after you for how you handle your shotgun.”
Walz wasted no time before answering, “Well, I can shoot better than all of them. I got the trophies to prove it.”
Once the laughter died down, the politician further explained his history with guns.
“I’m a veteran, I am a hunter,” he said. “I grew up in a small town of 400 people and this was a simpler time, a different time, we took our shotguns in our cars and after football practice we went out hunting. I’ve been doing this my whole life.”
While he and Harris want to “protect the Second Amendment,” he noted that their “first responsibility” is to their kids and their safety “so they’re not shot dead in schools.”
“These are folks that cosplay with the guns — there is no reason we need assault weapons on our streets or in our schools,” he said. “We are both gun owners — first time maybe on the Democratic ticket in modern times.”
Walz made one more shady dig at his Republican opponent Donald Trump, telling the co-hosts, “The Republican nominee can’t pass a background check to get a gun,” referring to Trump getting convicted on 34 felony counts in his hush money trial early this year.
“We understand the Second Amendment and lawful gun owners, folks who have been doing this for 50 years like I have, we understand that there’s not a single thing that we’re proposing that takes away your right to be able to own that firearm, to be able to have it in your possession,” he continued. “But it does go a long ways to making sure that folks who shouldn’t have it, don’t have it.”
The View airs on weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.
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