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WATCH: Illegal firearms, including ones from Mexico, are to blame for gun violence, Vance says
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2:34Now PlayingOhio Sen. JD Vance said illegal firearms, including those coming across the border from Mexico, are to blame for gun violence in the United States, during Tuesday’s vice presidential debate with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
When asked about school shootings, the senator said most of the gun violence seen in the U.S. “is committed with illegally obtained firearms.” He then claimed, “thanks to Kamala Harris’s open border, we’ve seen a massive influx in the number of illegal guns run by the Mexican drug cartel.”
Vance and Walz are facing each other in their first, and possibly last, vice presidential debate, hosted by CBS in New York on Oct. 1.
Both are relatively unknown to the broader American public. Walz was a U.S. House member before becoming governor of Minnesota. Vance is in his first term as a senator from Ohio.
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