Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vice presidential nominee, Nicole Shanahan, affirmed her support for the Second Amendment as the Biden-Harris campaign continues to push for tougher gun control policies.
During a long-form podcast with Youtuber Ian Carroll, Shanahan said, “The Second Amendment is really important to preserve. And if the issue is gun shootings and mass shootings, which is a real issue, we need to get to the root of the issue.”
“Taking away liberties while obfuscating the issue around mental health is not going to lead us to a better tomorrow,” Shanahan continued. “Maybe that makes me less liberal, but I actually think it makes me quite actually progressive in my thinking that we can’t strip people of their liberties — ever.”
Shanahan’s comments follow a gun-control event President Joe Biden spoke at on Tuesday. The president’s speech in Atlanta came as a part of a series the White House and Biden campaign are holding on addressing increasing gun violence with tighter firearms restrictions. In response to the surge of mass shootings, Biden signed legislation expanding federal control over firearms in 2022.
On Tuesday, Biden touted his Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, saying, “Folks, this historic law is already saving lives, but there’s still so much more to do to maximize the benefits.”
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The president continued his speech with a call to reinstate a ’90s-era ban on “assault weapons” and high-capacity magazines.
During a 2023 interview on the Club Random with Bill Maher podcast, Kennedy differentiated himself from the Democratic Party’s stance on gun control. He attributed the uptick in gun violence in part to the use of depressants or selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors such as Prozac and Zoloft and violent video games. RFK Jr. said before they were introduced, there was “no time in American history or human history that kids were going to shoot schools and shooting their classmates.”
