When you’re an anti-gun presidential candidate from a party with a platform that is dead set on banning guns, what better way to attempt to sway undecided gun owners than sending your running mate on a pheasant hunt?
That’s just what Vice President Kamala Harris did, as Tim Walz headed home to chase some Minnesota ringnecks on opening day. However, Walz’s escapades in the field seems to have brought more ridicule than support.
According to a Fox News report, Walz invited the press along to get some coverage, but blew the video op by bumbling and fumbling while trying to load his Berretta semi-auto shotgun. The bungled loading video had some on social media questioning whether he’d ever even been pheasant hunting before.
Conservative commentator and avid shooter John Cardillo was one who said Walz’s performance looked like it was the first time he ever loaded a shotgun
“Tim Walz claims that he’s a lifelong bird hunter, but this clearly proves he has no idea how to load or charge a semi-automatic shotgun,” Cardillo said. “I shoot A LOT of sporting clays with both semi-autos but mostly over-unders. He’s a first timer right here.”
Singer John Rich was perhaps the hardest on Walz, making a hilarious social media post highlighting the wannabe vice president’s weakness.
“Tim Walz claimed he carried ‘weapons of war in combat’ but he can’t load a shotgun?” Rich posted. “This guy is beyond weak. My little sister could beat him up. Ya gotta watch this.”
Of course, ridicule was not what the Harris campaign was looking for when Walz invited the media along for his hunt. Harris specifically chose Walz as her running mate because he was supposedly a combat veteran and hunter, hoping to pull some of the right-leaning undecided vote, especially in the critical so-called “Rust Belt” states.
Walz’s combat veteran status was later proven to be stolen valor, as records showed he never served in combat. Now, his hunting and gun owner credentials are being questioned after the Minnesota pheasant hunting debacle.
After watching the video, conservative commentator Jason Robertson posted that maybe it was better that Walz never was in a war zone after all.
“After Watching Tim Walz trying to handle a shotgun, I officially retract any criticism from him avoiding combat zones,” Robertson said. “He is a HERO. He is so bad with a weapon that he saved American Lives skipping the War Zone.”
Walz can pose as a veteran, a pheasant hunter or whatever he wants and he still can’t cover up his lousy record on guns and gun ownership. And just because he went pheasant hunting doesn’t make the Harris/Walz ticket any more pro-gun than their past combined records prove.
