‘If you’ve got a gun, you should be ashamed of yourself’: Watch mayor urge residents to stigmatize firearm owners

  By Harold Hutchison, Daily Caller News Foundation

Politician also criticizes police department use of a dog to help pursue and subdue suspects

Democratic Mayor David LaGrand of Grand Rapids, Michigan, claimed during a Monday community forum that people should start “shaming” gun owners.

LaGrand’s comments came during a regularly-scheduled “Mayor Monday” forum that took place after the deadly police shooting of Da-Quain Johnson on Wednesday, Fox 17, a Grand Rapids-based outlet, reported. During the forum, LaGrand weighed in not only on firearms ownership, in which he said that gun owners should feel “ashamed,” but also on policies involving the pursuit of suspects and police use of dogs.

“Nobody gardens with a gun, right? Nobody changes their tire with a gun. What they’re for is killing human beings and so it’s really hard. I think as a community we have to start having some shaming around gun possession,” LaGrand said in video posted to Facebook by Fox 17 reporter Josh Berry. “I think that I think if you’ve got a gun, you should be ashamed of yourself. I really do.”

full story and video at https://www.wnd.com/2026/02/if-youve-got-gun-you-should-be-ashamed/

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