News presenter and former Republican representative of South Carolina, Trey Gowdy, questioned a stricter arms control legislation when he was in office and took money from the National Rifles Association. But live in the air on Wednesday, following the mortal shooting in Minnesota, it seemed to change their minds.

“We are going to have a conversation about freedom against children’s protection,” News “overcome” told the hosts after an armed man shot bullets to a mass back to school, killed two young children and hurting another 17.

“I mean, how many school shootings are needed before we are going to have a conversation about how to keep firearms out,” he continued, echoing the calls of armed violence prevention groups? The shooters are often white men, he also pointed out.

The hosts of the program questioned their position. Lisa Boothe suggested that there were enough laws in books to protect people from armed violence, and Rachel Campos-Duffy offered more surveillance in schools and suggested that antidepressants should blame, echoing the unfounded statements made by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy.

Gowdy pushed back.

Former representative Trey Gowdy, South Carolina Republican.
Former representative Trey Gowdy, South Carolina Republican.

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“What does it say about our culture that wherever you go, you have to have a policeman to stay alive?” said. “We have to decide whether or not we want to live like this.”

Gowdy, who receives “Sunday Night in America” ​​from News, was not so vocal in weapons control when he served in the house from 2011 to 2019. During an appearance in the News following the 2018 park, Dowdy dismissed the idea of ​​concentrating on the weapons in the style of assault, which saw people use everything “from the rooms to the bricks to the bricks Hands “, when he was an assault prosecutor. “You are equally dead,” he concluded.

And in an appearance in News 2018 the new Republic emerged, Gowdy resisted the new weapons restrictions.

“Before starting to advocate new laws, I think it is eminently just to say: ‘How are we currently enforcing?'” He said.

The feeling was similar to the one he shared when he spoke in the 2016 Leadership Forum of the NRA.

“There are weapons control,” he said. “There are controls on who can have weapons, where you can have them and what kind of weapons can you have.”