 Welcome to the Knuckleheads of Liberty. We're talking about the view of one of our old standbys, and it's Joy Behar. And they were recently on the show, and they had a guest host, Lindsay Granger. And that's her right over here. And she was talking to her panelists about how, hey, some of these AR-15s are used for self-defense. And she was giving an example of a black man that she knew of who had assembled his own AR-15 and was using that for home defense. And Joy Behar's immediate response to that was, here's the thing. Once people get guns in this country, or once black people get guns in this country, the gun laws will change. Trust me. So she literally told a black woman that it wants guns. Black people get guns that somehow we're going to put all kinds of restrictions on guns. And they had a few statistics in this story. And what they were saying in here is that, I guess, National Firearms Survey published in 2021. They said that 25.4% of firearms were reported, I guess, owned by black people, which is, to me, that's an overrepresentation as far as the country is only around, I think, 13% or 14%. 14% black. Yeah. I'm not sure what world Joy Behar is living in, but these people who are taking away your gun sites, they don't seem to be connected to reality in any way. You guys have any thoughts on this whole Joy Behar? I am not one to look under every rock to find a racist, OK? Because I always just have to look on top of the rock, and I'll find people like Joy Behar, OK? Joy Behar is nothing but a racist, a racist idiot, I should say, who thinks that we black people can't think for ourselves, we can't defend ourselves, we can't do anything. The only thing we know to do is to vote for the Democratic Party and just say, yes, Massa, we are very happy with the nonsense that they've been providing for the last 50 years. This is the kind of racism that is coming from people of the left like Joy Behar. Well, gun control is racism. Yeah, it is. It started during the Jim Crow period. Anyway, to stop black some owning guns and being able to defend themselves. And that might be what Joy is mistakenly referring to. I mean, she's correct in the sense that gun control started with the targeting black people owning guns in the first place. And so it's racist and always has been and continues to be. And the most victimized people in these inner cities are by gun, by violence conducted by other black people with guns or white people or whoever is black people that are being targeted more than anyone else. So if anyone stands to lose by having their gun rights to defend themselves restricted, it would be black people. So you have that. Just a couple of years ago, I actually wrote an op-ed talking about the gun laws are the institutional racism that you've heard about. Yes. Yes. California has a disproportionate amount of gun laws, has a disproportionate amount of blacks in Hispanics, particularly 18 to 40 year old men, serving extremely long jail time. And many have to do with gun laws. So these gun laws that they put in place are disproportionately used against people of color, full stop, that's a statistical fact. And I don't think it's a coincidence and it certainly isn't doing. And what I'm told is it's not doing anything good for their community. So at the very least, they should be. It's important real quick, the folks that are making these gun laws respond to the idea of institutional racism. That's kind of their language. If you tell them, hey, it's in the Constitution and that's why it's important, they don't care. Well, let's just change the Constitution then. That doesn't resonate with them. But when you do talk about, speak their language. Don't tell them why it's important to you. Tell them why, speak a language they can understand. Hey, this is what's important to you and therefore this is why you should care about this. So yeah, I'm like, I don't like Joy Behar. She's kind of an idiot. But it's a really good idea to find out what does the other person care about and then speak to them in that language. Jay, I'll use that. You look at Chicago right now or look at any other major city, you know? Where you see black people killing black people in grotesque numbers. Nobody's outraged about that, right? Nobody's outraged about that. But Joy Behar is going to tell us if black people ever get guns to defend themselves, oh, then we'll have the image of them. Oh, the scary black man. So we got to be afraid of that. So then we have to change the laws to make sure the scary black man don't emerge. That is what she's talking about. Well, that's our knucklehead fact check for the view in Joy Behar this week. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, always.