Kamala Harris threatens to shoot home intruders during event with Oprah Winfrey

Kamala Harris reaffirmed that she's a weapon proprietor and volition occurrence distant if anyone tries to sneak into her house.

The vice president made the connection successful an effort to burnish her credentials arsenic a 'common sense' gun control campaigner during her hour-and-a-half agelong livestream fundraiser with Oprah Winfrey. 

'If idiosyncratic breaks into my house, they're getting shot,' she said, earlier showing disconnected her trademark cackle. 

She past expressed regret, akin to however her brag Joe Biden would effort to instrumentality backmost foolish statements: 'I astir apt should not person said that. My unit volition woody with that later.' 

The connection made headlines connected societal media, including an instantly condemnation from the National Rifle Association, who accused her of being a 'walking contradiction'.

Harris said that some she and vice statesmanlike moving mate Tim Walz are weapon owners and volition find a mediate crushed connected the issue.  

'I deliberation for acold excessively agelong connected the contented of weapon violence, immoderate radical person been pushing a truly mendacious prime to accidental you're either successful favour of the Second Amendment oregon you privation to instrumentality everyone's guns away', she said. 

'I'm successful favour of the 2nd amendment, and I'm successful favour of battle weapons bans, cosmopolitan inheritance checks, reddish emblem laws,' she added.

Conservatives accused her of hypocrisy connected the contented for wanting to person it some ways.

Others began to photoshop images of Harris carrying a gun.

Winfrey besides featured an interrogation with a household progressive successful the Apalachee High School shooting successful Georgia earlier this month. 

The legendary speech amusement big kicked disconnected the hour-and-a-half agelong livestream by introducing a who's who of Hollywood A-listers including Bryan Cranston, Chris Rock, Ben Stiller, Jennifer Lopez, Tracy Ellis Ross, Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep.

'I americium smiling from receptor to receptor Oprah,' Breaking Bad's Cranston said. 'I person ne'er felt this overmuch joyousness and optimism successful a run successful a agelong time.' 

But with Winfrey astatine the helm of the production, determination were immoderate tear-jerking moments excessively - including introducing the parent of the archetypal pistillate who died a preventable abortion-related decease since the overturn of Roe v. Wade. 

Sitting in the workplace assemblage successful the plaything authorities of Michigan, Winfrey introduced Shanette, the parent of Amber Nicole Thurman, who died successful August 2022 aft doctors failed to run connected her for 20 hours. 

ProPublica published a report this week telling Thurman's communicative and naming her arsenic the archetypal 'preventable' decease since the Dobbs decision.  

Thurman had taken termination pills but hadn't expelled fetal insubstantial from her body, creating an corruption and leaving her successful request of a communal process called a dilation and curettage. 

But that process was present a felony successful Georgia. 

'Initially, I did not privation the nationalist to cognize my pain. I wanted to spell done successful silence. But I realized that it was selfish,' Shanette said. 'I privation you each to cognize that Amber was not a statistic. She was loved by a family, a beardown family, and we would person done immoderate to get my baby, our baby, the assistance that she needed.' 

Shanette recalled that erstwhile ProPublica's Kavitha Surana archetypal approached her, she pushed the writer away, but she recalled Surana saying, 'People astir the satellite request to cognize that this was preventable.' 

'You're looking astatine a parent that is broken,' Shanette told the assemblage Thursday nighttime arsenic she fought backmost the tears.

Thurman's sisters hammered the healthcare professionals for not acting to prevention their sister's life. 

'We trusted them to instrumentality attraction of her and they conscionable fto her dice becauase of immoderate anserine termination ban,' Thurman's sister C.J. said. 

Winfrey past asked Harris to react. 

'I'm conscionable truthful sorry,' the vice president said. 'And the courageousness that you each person shown is extraordinary, due to the fact that also, you conscionable learned astir however it is that she died.' 

Winfrey explained that the household conscionable precocious learned the afloat communicative of Thurman's termination gone awry. 

'And Amber's ma shared with maine that the connection implicit and implicit again successful her caput is "preventable - preventable," that connection keeps coming to her,' Harris said.  

The Democratic nominee blamed her rival, erstwhile President Donald Trump, for appointing 3 pro-life justices who intended to overrule Roe v. Wade. 

Harris besides said that exceptions for erstwhile the 'life of the parent is successful danger' are problematic, due to the fact that of however that could beryllium legally defined. 

'Here's the occupation with that, here's the occupation with that - truthful she connected death's doorway earlier you determine to springiness her help?' Harris asked. 

Winfrey besides had teen rape subsister Hadley Duvall code the crowd. 

Duvall, who was continually raped by her stepfather, appears successful a Harris-Walz run ad, blasting Trump for appointing the justices who took her close to an termination away. 

'Hadley, you've conscionable been truthful remarkable,' Harris gushed. 

'And the thought that, these aforesaid legislators who would beryllium saying criminalize healthcare providers are besides saying that aft a person's assemblage has been violated that they person nary close to marque a determination astir what happens to their assemblage next,' Harris continued. 'That's immoral.' 

Winfrey past expressed her ain presumption connected the matter. 

'I conscionable don't judge that those legislators, that the authorities has the close to beryllium successful your womb,' the speech amusement icon said.  

Throughout the night, Winfrey tossed to the celebrities. 

'Hello President Harris,' said Streep with a giggle. 'From my rima to God's ear.' 

Streep past asked Harris what happens if Trump refuses to concede the predetermination again.

'More Americans than we whitethorn recognize who voted for Trump earlier person decided that January 6 was a span excessively far,' Harris said. 

She added that the 'other piece' is that 'the lawyers are working.

'It's precise important that we talk to our friends and neighbors astir misinformation,' she went on, besides encouraging supporters to 'stand up for the integrity of canvass workers.' 

Harris besides pleaded: 'Do not beryllium acrophobic to vote.' 

'I deliberation determination is besides thing rather insidious astir these attacks connected the electorate successful these assorted forms that are intended to person radical that their ballot won't matter,' the VP said. 

She reassured the crowd, including Streep, 'we are going to person a bully Election Day.'       

Ahead of the event, the Harris-Walz run said that astir 200,000 radical had signed up to watch.

Winfrey took implicit a soundstage in Oakland County, Michigan for filming, inviting Michigan's fashionable Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to rile up the crowd. 

The longtime speech amusement big explained that the thought for the lawsuit came from the Zoom calls antithetic groups took portion successful instantly aft Harris became the presumptive Democratic nominee - starting with 'Win With Black Women.' 

Winfrey said members of each sorts of groups were turning successful Thursday nighttime - including Swifties for Harris and adjacent Train Lovers for Harris. 

'I didn't cognize determination were bid lovers,' Winfrey mused. 

She said Republicans for Harris were portion of the crowd. 

'Love that radical adjacent more,' Winfrey commented. 

The self-described autarkic archetypal backed erstwhile President Barack Obama's run successful 2008. She endorsed Hillary Clinton successful 2016 but didn't deed the run way for her. 

Winfrey has been ace progressive this cycle, archetypal speaking astatine the Democratic National Convention and past hosting the lawsuit Thursday night. 

She had Harris reply questions from her in-person and livestream assemblage - chiefly focused connected the economy.