Harris surprises many with pro-gun stance

Democratic candidate Kamala Harris surprises with pro-gun stance

"I'm a gun owner," the Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris said recently in a forum hosted by television star Oprah Winfrey.

"If someone breaks in my house," she said with a chuckle "they're getting shot."

Ms. Harris has mentioned owning a firearm in the past, but she has mostly kept that quiet, in line with her party's emphasis on curtailing access to guns in a country that has grown wearily used to armed crime and mass shootings.

The former longtime prosecutor also remains mum on exactly what kind of weapon she owns.

So her boldly pro-gun stance just a month and a half from the November 5 election surprised many -- including Winfrey.

"I probably shouldn't have said that," laughed Ms. Harris after her vow to shoot intruders at her California home.

Experts, however, say that the sitting vice president's revelation was no accident.