(OPINION) “The View” co-host Joy Behar said Wednesday that gun laws will change in the U.S. “once Black people get guns,” while discussing congressional action on gun control legislation. According to Fox News, Guest host Lindsey Granger argued that people on both sides of the political aisle need to sit down,
debate, and find common ground on issues such as gun control and terrorism and “make real progress.”Co-host Sara Haines reiterated the discussion the hosts had with Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., on Tuesday. Murphy said that getting gun control legislation passed in Congress is going to require a give-and-take between Republicans and Democrats.
Behar said that members of the Republican Party have said that “taking those AR-15s off the market” was a nonstarter for them. “It’s all about the guns, alright,” Behar continued. “Let me give you a story,” Granger said. She described a man in Connecticut that witnessed a home invasion at his neighbor’s house.
She said that the man built his own AR-15 because the state of Connecticut doesn’t allow you to buy them, but that you could abide by their rules to build them. “He has one in his house to protect his family because he never wants to see that happen again. He is a Black man, it’s odd, most AR-15 owners are former military, 35-plus and married,” she said. “They’re not just crazy people.”
