Fox host: Republicans who voted for bipartisan gun legislation “should pay with their jobs”
Will Cain: “This was a march along an ideological goal to get rid of guns and those Republicans participated in that”
Published
Citation From the July 11, 2022, edition of Fox News' The Faulkner Focus
HARRIS FAULKNER (ANCHOR): I can tell you that to stop all mass shootings would take more than this one bill. It would take actually applying the laws that we already have on the books, and I don't know where the president of the United States was going with Adam Lanza's mom in Sandy Hook. I covered that for this network that day, and what we found out is that she purchased those weapons, and he made it sound like they were just lying around the house. The kid turned around and shot the computer to pieces so there would be no trail of what had happened — purchases online or any sort of searches online. It made investigating that case very, very difficult. Of course we know he shot his mom. Will Cain, your top thoughts.
WILL CAIN (FOX NEWS HOST): Harris, you are absolutely right. You would be telling us the truth when you tell us it's a complicated cocktail of contributing factors that lead to these tragic mass shootings. And the president of the United States hand-waving at the end, the very end, and I'm not going to get into that, I don't have time to discuss the mental health component that leads to an epidemic of young men, lost souls without meaning or purpose turning to the most evil and vile thing they can imagine to take out their anger on society is much more complicated than a red flag law.
And now, to the Republicans -- the ones that President Biden just said he hopes they don't pay with their jobs. They should pay with their jobs. The argument from anyone who is a opponent of gun control is: All of this is an incremental march toward the confiscation of guns. It's not actually about solving the problem. Now, President Biden gave every gun control opponent the ammunition and the validation that they needed when he said I'm just getting started. I want to ban assault weapons. I want to ban quote, unquote, “high capacity magazines." He made it clear this wasn't an attempt to solve the problem, Harris. This was a march along an ideological goal to get rid of guns and those Republicans participated in that. Not a solution to a very complicated problem. And President Biden's hand wave at the mental health component of this shows it wasn't a sincere effort to solve the problem but rather the first step or the next step in a long march towards the ideological goal of basically confiscating and controlling the United States gun -- Second Amendment guaranteed right to gun ownership. I think that was made very clear over the past 15 minutes.