Vice President Kamala Harris called Tuesday for Congress to renew a federal ban on assault-style rifles and to end liability protections for gun manufacturers, saying “we need to end this horror” of gun violence.
Addressing the National Education Association’s annual conference in Chicago, the vice president spoke of Monday’s mass shooting at an Independence Day parade in nearby Highland Park, Illinois, that left six people dead and dozens wounded.
“We must protect our communities from the terror of gun violence,” Ms. Harris said. “An assault weapon is designed to kill a lot of human beings quickly. There is no reason that we have weapons of war on the streets of America.