ABC’s Sunny Hostin came out swinging on Friday’s episode of “The View.”
Her explosive comments were in response to Joy Behar‘s remarks about her safety during a recent trip to Italy. Reflecting on her vacation, Behar called guns “the major problem” in the United States.
Hostin added that the vast majority of gun owners are white men. She opined that they “are being radicalized by Fox News…by other right-wing media” and “taught to fear people that don’t look like them.”
Nicholas Fondacaro of the Media Research Center didn’t take kindly to her words.
Racist Sunny Hostin says the problem with gun owners is that they’re white, calls them a “radicalized” threat to the country.
“People are being radicalized by Fox News. They’re being radicalized by other right-wing media and being taught to fear people that don’t look like them.” pic.twitter.com/PL0YLpL1bN— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) April 21, 2023
Hostin’s co-hosts offered their opinions, as Breitbart notes:
Co-host Sara Haines said, “This instinct to shoot first is a really complicated problem with a lot of different branches. I think the obsession with social media, time spent on social media, the kind of numbing of something social that’s antisocial, I think consumption of porn, now we’re getting into some of the lane of a lot of male of all ages, video games. A lot of these things are removing that humanity, that empathy, that connection.”
She added, “We’re also watching the degradation of church. I am not an institutional church person. I was raised in the church, I’ve got a lot of issues, but one thing across religions and churches, there’s a morality component, a duty to serve your community, your families, to people that are different from you.”