{"id":1508069,"date":"2022-06-08T15:20:53","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T19:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1508069"},"modified":"2022-06-08T15:20:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T19:20:58","slug":"joy-behar-claims-gun-laws-will-change-once-black-people-get-guns-but-nearly-1-in-4-already-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joy-behar-claims-gun-laws-will-change-once-black-people-get-guns-but-nearly-1-in-4-already-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Joy Behar Claims Gun Laws Will Change \u2018Once Black People Get Guns\u2019 \u2014 But Nearly 1 In 4 Already Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjoy-behar-claims-gun-laws-will-change-once-black-people-get-guns-but-nearly-1-in-4-already-do%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1508069&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Joy Behar claimed on Wednesday that Americans would only be willing to consider more restrictive gun laws \u201conce black people get guns in this country\u201d \u2014 but according to the most recent available <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3887145\">data<\/a>, nearly one-fourth of black Americans already do own firearms.<\/p>\n<p>Behar joined her cohosts on ABC midday talk show \u201cThe View\u201d to discuss actor Matthew McConaughey\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/watch-matthew-mcconaughey-gives-away-the-political-lefts-game-on-gun-control\/\">visit to Capitol Hill<\/a> and renewed calls for <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/its-just-sick-biden-uses-school-shooting-address-to-slam-gun-lobby\/\">gun control<\/a> in the wake of several recent mass shootings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Joy Behar claims that gun laws will change &#8220;when black people get guns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nearly one in four already do. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dCEsMAvWqr\">pic.twitter.com\/dCEsMAvWqr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Virginia Kruta (@VAKruta) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VAKruta\/status\/1534591506094374912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Guest cohost Lindsey Granger called attention to the fact that the shooter in Buffalo \u2014 who targeted black people intentionally \u2014 had been charged with terrorism, and she argued that was the correct move.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA man going in a grocery store and killing black people is wrong, because they\u2019re black, it\u2019s wrong. And I can say that. And so I can\u2019t do anything more than be myself and be honest,\u201d she said, adding that she hoped Americans would go out and vote for the people who best represented them \u2014 whether the issue was guns or terrorism or anything else.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe spoke to that,\u201d cohost Sara Haines said of McConaughey. \u201cHe said, you have to find common ground right now. We have to find a way to rise above this political back and forth and counterpunching because it\u2019s that urgent, what\u2019s going on right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joy Behar pushed back, complaining that Republicans had already rejected the idea of banning the AR-15. \u201cIt\u2019s all about the guns, all right?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Granger brought up a story about a black man in Connecticut who built his own AR-15 \u2014 because while it was illegal for him to buy one, there was a legal workaround that allowed him to build one himself. He did so, she said, because he witnessed the home invasion that killed his neighbor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost AR-15 owners are former military, 35-plus and married,\u201d Granger continued, but Behar interrupted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me say one more thing. Okay. Here\u2019s the thing. Once black people get guns in this country, the gun laws will change. Trust me,\u201d Behar insisted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what happened with the Black Panthers,\u201d cohost Sunny Hostin agreed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrust me on that. We will see some action,\u201d Behar said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut black people have been buying guns. The numbers went up in 2020 \u2014\u201d Granger protested.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Black Panthers. Know your history, know your history,\u201d Hostin said again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all need to get off our asses and get out and vote,\u201d Whoopi Goldberg said, bringing the segment to a close.<\/p>\n<p>Granger\u2019s claim regarding gun ownership among black Americans was accurate.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/social-trends\/2017\/06\/22\/the-demographics-of-gun-ownership\/\">Pew research study<\/a> done in 2017, approximately 30% of Americans said that they owned firearms. When the demographics were broken down further, the data indicated that 36% of white Americans owned at least one gun and 24% of black Americans owned at least one gun. Those numbers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/forbestheculture\/2021\/06\/23\/as-gun-ownership-rises-in-the-united-states-black-imagery-shifts\/?sh=215f9edd63b5\">climbed rapidly<\/a> in 2020, when 40% of all firearm sales were to first-time gun owners and black gun ownership jumped up by 56% \u2014 more than any other demographic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joy Behar claimed on Wednesday that Americans would only be willing to consider more restrictive gun laws \u201conce black people get guns in this country\u201d \u2014 but according to the most recent available data, nearly one-fourth of black Americans already do own firearms. 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