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Opinion | Kamala Harris knows how to talk about guns — she should do it more often

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Dean Obeidallah: Vice President Kamala Harris' recent comments on gun ownership have been refreshingly clear and straightforward.

He says she has made clear that she supports a ban on assault weapons, a Clinton -era policy that massively reduced mass shootings.

He asks: We are much closer to a consensus on guns than partisans on either side would have you believe.

Obeydallah: Let’s keep guns legal, but keep guns out of the hands of people who are dangerous, abusive or mentally ill.

The carefree way Harris discussed her own relationship to the Second Amendment made clear that she grasps this essential quality of the American mainstream—certainly more than Trump does. MAGA understudies like Ohio Sen. JD Vance and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are especially out of the norm, representing a creepy authoritarian nationalism that plays a lot better on 4chan than it does in Peoria . Harris , on the other hand, is the suburban normie, the soccer mom in Philadelphia or Milwaukee — in other words, an ordinary American ..