(Headline USA) MSNBC’s Joy Reid claimed this week that she was too scared of guns to leave her home on the Fourth of July.
During a segment of her show The Reidout on Wednesday, Reid and former firearms industry executive Ryan Busse blasted America’s gun culture and called for stringent gun control policies.
Reid suggested that until such policies are passed, she will not feel comfortable attending public events for fear of becoming a shooting victim.
“I have to say, I did not go out on July Fourth and would not,” Reid said. “The idea of going to a mass gathering, a parade, or a big fireworks thing outside seems insane to me, to be blunt, in America, because America is awash with guns, and now people don’t just have them, they seem to want to shoot people with them and use them for whatever, you know?”
Busse agreed and argued the right to bear arms is at odds with citizens’ natural rights to life and liberty.
“The right to own firearms is an immensely powerful thing,” he said. “In fact, nothing is more targeted at the ability to remove the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness of fellow citizens in a second or two, dozens of them as we have seen than the right to own firearms.”
Later on in the show, Reid blasted Florida’s stand-your-ground self defense law as a “threat.”
“The stand your ground laws say don’t just have a gun, shoot someone. Use it. Somebody rings your doorbell, shoot them because we’ll protect you under the law,” Reid claimed. “I don’t know how anybody can be a DoorDasher. I don’t know how anybody can do a job where they have to deliver to someone’s home, or deliver Amazon. Ringing a doorbell is deadly now.”
