The View, ABC’s morning talk program that elevated Raven-Symone to political punditry, engaged in one of its more oafish rants Thursday on one of the many topics about which it knows very little: the Constitution. In the wake of an agitated socialist attempting to engage…
The View, ABC’s morning talk program that elevated Raven-Symone to political punditry, engaged in one of its more oafish rants Thursday on one of the many topics about which it knows very little: the Constitution.
In the wake of an agitated socialist attempting to engage in the mass murder of his political opponents, the panelists at The View changed the subject to berating the Second Amendment and the limits it places on gun control.
Whoopi Goldberg began the segment by pontificating about why Republicans having guns present would have been of no assistance, and made a vague allusion to herself having “been shot at” to justify her gun-policy acumen. This is false (at least about the impotence of hypothetical Republican armaments) , because had House Majority Whip Steve Scalise’s security detail from the Capitol Police not been present, there would have been three to five minutes of unabated fire from shooter James Hodgkinson as the defenseless congressmen waited for police assistance.
Next, there is an interchange among the hosts about how it was possible for this man to have purchased a gun given his criminal history. Hodgkinson, despite a number of serious charges, had never been convicted of a felony.
Sunny Hostin, who later in the segment bemoaned that America isn’ t more like Japan, expressed angst about the “very, very lax gun laws” in Virginia. This is a relative exaggeration; the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, a gun-control advocacy group, rates Virginia in the top half of its rankings of the states based in part on the restrictiveness of the state’s gun legislation.
Next, it was Joy Behar’s turn for pontification, as she talked about how the gun laws in New York allowed her to feel safe on the “subway” or the “bus.” If she lived in a concealed-carry state, Behar described how she would live in fear of a gun attack; after all, she says, who knows how angry someone could get over “mansplaining?” Mansplaining, a word that most folks call ‘rude’ , is a feminist portmanteau whereby a man speaks paternalistically to a woman, much like Joy Behar does to those who disagree with her on policy. If Behar was so unconcerned with violent outrage over mansplaining in areas with air-tight gun laws, one would assume she would delight in the prospect of roaming the streets of Chicago, one of the nation’s most gun restrictive cities, unarmed.
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Sunny Hostin wondered with visible contempt why the US can’ t be more like other more “woke” countries like Japan. Behar responded dejectedly that they don’ t have a radically inconvenient “second amendment” like America, which would, in turn, prevent the United States from implementing a socialist paradise because of those backward Republicans who cling to their silly guns and religion.
The conservative on the panel, Jedediah Bila, had the audacity to talk, but Whoopi talked over her and told her she “doesn’ t believe” her claim that she knows people who own guns. Bila was prevented from interrupting the conjugal thought bubble. Crisis averted.
Not so fast. Bila interjected her way back into the conversation and stated that a society where “only police have guns” is a “police state”. Whoopi then deftly rebutted this claim with Shakespearean prose, saying that, no, “that is not a police state”.
