“The View” co-host Ana Navarro pushed gun control Monday by saying Trump administration officials now knew how schoolchildren felt during shootings in the wake of Saturday’s assassination attempt on President Donald Trump.
Cole Allen, a 31-year-old teacher from Torrance, California, is expected to appear in court Monday after he was charged with discharging a firearm while committing a violent crime and assaulting a federal officer during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Navarro expressed the hope that new gun- control legislation could emerge from the incident.
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“That room was full of some of the most important political leaders in the country right now,” Navarro said as co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin nodded along and expressed agreement while chiming in. “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 like to have to jump under a table the way that school children jump under a desk. And we are a country that is vulnerable to this. We have now seen shootings in malls, in churches, in temples, in Walmarts, in baseball fields.”
Allen purchased his firearms, a shotgun in 2025 and a handgun in 2023, in California, which has some of the strictest gun laws in the country, including records of sales maintained by the state, bans on so-called “assault weapons” and prohibiting private sales of firearms. Major anti-Second Amendment organizations, including the Brady Campaign, Giffords and Everytown, all have touted the state’s gun laws.
Navarro said she couldn’t understand why gun legislation didn’t pass after the December 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
“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,” Navarro said. “But maybe now that they have felt the fear themselves, they will do something.”
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