During Monday's episode of “The View,” panelist Ana Navarro expressed hope that the recent shooting incident at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner would finally compel Washington lawmakers to address America's gun violence crisis.
Navarro told her co-hosts that legislators might now take action after experiencing the fear firsthand. “Now they know, they’ve lived it in their own flesh, the fear that our schoolchildren go through,” she said. “Now they know what it’s like to have to jump under a table the way that schoolchildren jump under a desk. And we are a country that is vulnerable to this.”
Reflecting on the prevalence of shootings in various public spaces, co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin reminded Navarro of the 2017 shooting at a congressional baseball game practice, where Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) and three others were wounded.
Navarro, a political strategist and media figure, continued, “I still don’t understand how Congress took no action after Sandy Hook, after 20 children between the ages of 6 and 7 were killed. But maybe now that they have felt the fear themselves, they will do something on gun control.”
The “View” host also criticized President Donald Trump and his allies for using the incident to push for expanding the White House ballroom, calling it “crazy.” She argued the attack should have inspired unity, stating, “I just think school children have as much a right to have safe schools as politicians do to have a secure ballroom.”
