After the shooting outside the White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday, many folks have been all too eager to pivot away from talking about the suspect’s political and ideological motivations to demand we talk about gun control instead.
Tom Cullen says M-O-O-N spells deflection. And pray tell, what gun control law would you like to see in place that would have prevented him from getting a gun. Keep in mind, he apparently abided by all of the gun laws already in place in California.
— Cam Edwards (@CamEdwards) April 27, 2026
King is hardly the only person whose big takeaway from the weekend is to press for more gun laws. The View contributor Ana Navarro was also adamant on Monday’s show that Congress should be spurred into action after the close call on Saturday night.
“Now they know, they’ve lived it in their own flesh, the fear that our school children go through. Now they know what it’s lime to have to jump under a table the way that school children jump under a desk,” Navarro said. “And we are a country that is vulnerable to this. We have now seen shootings in malls, in churches, in temples —
“On baseball fields. We saw it with the Republican —” Whoopi Goldberg said.
“With Steve Scalise,” Sunny Hostin added.
Navarro continued, “I still don’t understand how Congress took no action after Sandy Hook, after 20 children between the ages of six and seven were killed. But maybe now that they have felt the fear themselves they will do something on gun control.”
As Goldberg and Hostin reminded Navarro, this isn’t the first time that Republicans in Congress have experienced an attack meant to end as many lives as possible, and they didn’t respond to the 2107 attack by a leftist who tried to murder them by pushing for more restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms. Why would their reaction to this madman be any different?
Not that Hostin disagreed with Navarro’s broader argument. She offered up her own “do something” rhetoric when she said we must also “confront… that our country is a country that has more guns than people–personal guns than people.”
That’s true, and the homicide rate in 2025 was the lowest in at least 65 years, according to preliminary estimates. “Gun violence” overall has been sharply declining as well, even as the National Shooting Sports Foundation reports more than 1,000,000 firearm transfers each month. More guns simply does not equate to more crime, no matter what Hostin might think.
And what exactly does Navarro want from Congress right now? “Do something on gun control” is about as vague as you can get, and could even encompass passage of HR 38 and its nationwide constitutional carry. That would do something on gun control, but I assume that Navarro wants more restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms, not fewer.
Navarro has a national platform and a largely sympathetic audience. So why can’t she articulate what that “something” would look like? I suspect it’s because if you gave her a list of every potential gun control law and asked her which of them would have prevented this shooting she’d look like Russell Brand trying to find a particular passage from the Bible.
Piers Morgan asked Russell Brand which passages were relevant to him when he brought a Bible into court. pic.twitter.com/8eI3VCKJIM
— Mukhtar (@I_amMukhtar) April 24, 2026
That’s not a knock on Navarro’s intelligence. The same is true no matter who might be asked that question, because the truth is that there is no gun control law that would have prevented this crime from taking place.
The accused legally purchased two firearms from two different gun stores in gun-controlled California months apart; both of them legal to possess under the state’s “assault weapons” ban and handgun roster. He went through two separate background checks. He waited at least ten days after each purchase before he took possession of the shotgun and pistol. So what gun control law could we put in place that would have stopped him from buying those firearms?
He traveled from California to New York on a train with his firearms, which is allowed under Amtrak policy so long as the firearms are stored in a locked case and unloaded. He did break D.C. law by bringing his guns into the District, but until he tried to carry out his attack law enforcement had no idea that he’d done so.
Keeping in mind that we do have a right to keep and bear arms, what law or laws could have been put in place to keep him from launching his assault on the WHCD? We can’t have a law forbidding traveling with firearms, especially since the historic record shows that travelers were typically treated with more deference when it came to exercising their Second Amendment rights.
D.C.’s gun registration laws didn’t stop the suspect, so that’s out. The suspect also violated D.C.’s concealed carry laws, so imposing stringent permitting requirements wouldn’t have made a difference either.
The truth is that even without constitutional restraints, there is no gun control law short of an outright ban on all gun sales that might have stopped this guy… and even then he could have always turned to the black market. Heck, we just saw a mass shooting in Mexico last week that didn’t involve the drug cartels. In a country with only two gun stores and incredibly tight restrictions on who can own the limited number of guns available to permitted civilians, a 27-year-old still managed to get his hands on a gun and use it to target tourists at the Pyramid of the Moon in Teotihuacan.
I’ve only had a few interactions with Ana Navarro of the years. We’re mutual follows, and she dropped several kind messages in support of Miss E during her fight with cancer, as well as reaching out after Miss E passed away. Navarro and I may disagree about gun control, but I appreciate the kindnesses she’s shown to me in the past, and this isn’t an attack on her character or an accusation of having malicious motivations in expressing her desire for Congress to “do something.”
If Navarro has the answer, she should share it with the rest of us, because I honestly don’t see the “something” that Congress could do in terms of gun control that would have stopped this from taking place.
Editor’s Note: The radical Left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.
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