Whoopi Goldberg suggests banning AR-15s: ‘Report them and we’ll put them in jail’
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Goldberg said previously that she didn’t want to ban ‘all’ of the guns, but she wanted the AR-15s
Whoopi Goldberg, host of “The View,” proposed on Wednesday that people report and police arrest anyone carrying an AR-15, comparing it to what “women are threatened with” if they seek an abortion.
Guest host Tara Setmayer stated that banning guns in a country with “more guns than people” would be hard, according to NY post.
“It actually is easy,” Goldberg said. “It is easy, but the things that you could say to people, which we don’t say on this show, the things you could wish on people, that we don’t wish on this show to people because we know, we’ve all met people who have had to deal with the death of a loved one at the hands of a gun,” implying that they’ve been holding back.
She said that people who don’t understand the need to ban AR-15s, “one gun,” she emphasized, will “never see the need to make sure that people get the [mental] help.”
Setmayer stated that guns may still be used, as in the Virginia Tech shooting.
“A handgun does not turn people to dust,” Goldberg responded.
Sunny Hostin claimed that when assault weapons were banned, “mass shootings did go down.”
“It’s the guns, it’s the guns, it’s the guns,” Joy Behar repeated.
Goldberg said that they were suggesting “taking one gun” out of “the plethora of guns.”
“What happens to the black market then?” Setmayer asked, saying that AR-15s are the most popular gun in the country.
“I’ll tell you what happens. The same thing that happens that is being threatened to women who decide maybe I need to go talk to somebody about an abortion, where they say, report them and we’ll put them in jail,” Goldberg responded. “That’s what.”
Setmayer said that it would need to be enforced.
Goldberg stated on May 25 that Republicans should be as aggressive about gun regulation as they are about being pro-life and defending the unborn.
“Alito says abortion’s not in the Constitution, well, neither are AR-15s. So I guess the Constitution doesn’t cover them, either,” Goldberg said. “Life is so sacred, then stop using guns to abort young lives. Stop using guns.”
