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He says it in a jokey way, as people tend to do when trying to deflect from a serious and emotionally difficult topic.

And no, this is not a jokey Onion headline.

It inspired a slew of TikTok parodies, souvenir mugs and jokey posts commemorating accomplishments far less impressive than winning the White House.

Stutzman cited her jokey appearance last week alongside Oprah Winfrey when Harris let slip — was it really accidental? — that she keeps a gun at home and if an intruder breaks in “they’re getting shot.”

"If somebody breaks into my house, they're getting shot," she said in a jokey exchange during a livestreamed event in Michigan with host Oprah Winfrey on Thursday.