The View: ‘Easier’ to Buy an AR than Beer, Anti-CRT Parents Don’t Care

We’ve reached that point in the anti-gun-rights hysteria where the liberal media are just making up and pumping out blatantly false and easily disprovable claims about guns and gun laws in America. On Wednesday’s edition of The View, co-host Whoopi Goldberg continued her anti-AR-15 crusade by claiming that it’s “easier” for someone to get an AR than “a glass of beer at a bar.” Co-host Sunny Hostin also chimed in to claim parents against Critical Race Theory don’t care if their kids are shot.

Following a montage of clips of conservatives blaming societal ills for mass shootings at the top of the show, Goldberg scoffed: “The issue is that there is an assault weapon out there that people can put their hands on.”

And according to Goldberg’s warped understanding of reality, “They can put their hands on it easier than they can get a glass of beer in a bar. An assault weapon is available for children. That’s the issue.”

It is a fact that in order to purchase a firearm, you must fill out paperwork required by the federal government and undergo a background check. A background check is not required for every round of drink purchased. And prices are a barrier to entry; inflation is bad but you’re not paying hundreds of dollars for a pint.

It suggests gun rights advocates looked at the facts “through a BS lens,”Goldberg went on a tirade that was disconnected from reality, declaring that no valid reason existed to possess an AR.

This will be my last comment on the subject. You cannot hunt with this weapon. This weapon is too dangerous to use for bird hunting. It’s designed to kill and dismember bodies. It does exactly that. It’s there for that purpose and you can still keep your guns. There is no reason to. These people cannot say “Look at this, why do we need this gun?” because they won’t be able to show it because the bullet is so small. Okay?

Well, I guess I’m “none of these people” because there is, in fact, many legitimate reasons for someone to own an AR. You can use them as home defense tools, for modern sports shooting or just to have fun shooting target with friends. And on her repetitive argument that guns are just for hunting and AR’s can’t be used for that: there are AR variants that do shoot larger rounds and are used for hunting. Goldberg’s ignorance is pure and unadulterated.

“Let’s just start with that,” Goldberg shrieked. “It’s not any of these things, it’s that we have an issue with a gun that should not be in anybody’s hands unless they’re a soldier.”

In the midst of her argument that the issue was “not that there’s no God in the classroom and people’s lives,” co-host Joy Behar made the laughable suggestion that saying “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance meant God was in schools:

BEHAR: It’s in the Pledge of Allegiance, by the way.

WHOOPI: I’m sorry?

BEHAR: I said God is in the Pledge of Allegiance, remember, “under God,” so they’re saying it is out of the classroom. It is a daily habit of children.

Further on in the show, Hostin lashed out at the parents protesting the racist poison of Critical Race Theory influencing schools by suggesting they didn’t care about their kids getting killed in school shootings. “[T]hey thought that the real danger was discussing race in the classroom … not guns,” She laughed.

“Rah, rah, rah and racism and I don’t want my kids to feel like oppressors,” she mocked them before demanding to know “Where are those parents when their kids are being gunned down in classrooms?”

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The transcript is below, click “expand” to read:

ABC’s The View
June 1, 2022
Eastern, 11:03:17

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WHOOPI Goldberg: There is an assault weapon that anyone can get their hands on.

SUNNY HOOSTIN: No.

GOLDBERG – They are able to get it more easily than they can get a beer at a bar. An assault weapon can be purchased by children. It’s the real problem. This is not the case if you smoke too much marijuana. Laura knows this. [Ingraham]. That is something you should be aware of. Do you already know this? It’s not like there is no God in school or people’s lives.

JOY BEHAR: It’s in the Pledge of Allegiance, by the way.

WHOOPI: I’m sorry?

BEHAR: I said God is in the Pledge of Allegiance, remember, “under God,” so they’re saying it is out of the classroom. It is a daily habit of children.

GOLDBERG: It’s not any of those things! You can put it through a BS lens if you want to and keep pretending like you don’t know that we have an issue when an assault weapon –

It will be my last word on the matter. You cannot hunt with this weapon. This weapon is too dangerous to use for bird hunting. It’s designed to kill and dismember bodies. It does exactly that. You can have all of your guns and that’s why it exists. There is no reason you should have it. None of them can tell you why they need it. Okay?

Let’s start by saying that. This is not about any of those things. It’s the fact that we have an issue regarding a gun which should not be in anyone’s hands, unless that person is a soldier.

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Eastern at 11:07 a.m.

HOSTIN: I thought they were poor, right? The poor parents who went through all this are now left with their children traumatized. They also have to go through the active drills over again.

And the other thing I thought, remember when all the parents were up in arms about CRT – alleged CRT and they thought that the real danger was discussing race in the classroom? This was the real threat, not guns. I would like to feel that energy from those parents. “Rah, rah, rah and racism and I don’t want my kids to feel like oppressors.” Where are those parents when their kids are being gunned down in classrooms?

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