In the wake of the arrest of the left-wing assassin who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, it was reportedly discovered that he used a 3D-printed, so-called “ghost gun.” Never letting a good crisis go to waste, on Tuesday, The View wanted to exploit the situation to push for gun control. ABC News co-hosts Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin demanded a crackdown on homemade firearms and betrayed their ignorance of it being an American tradition dating back centuries and to before the founding. Behar was manic because the U.S. Supreme Court was set to hear a case regarding the Biden administration’s actions against unfinished 80-percent lower receivers. “Another point, these ghost guns are up for discussion at the Supreme Court right now so let us hope that they do the right thing, because, let me see, they do not have serial numbers,” she huffed, as if serial numbers allowed authorities to magically pin point where a gun was on the globe. Flaunting her ignorance of the work involved and equipment required to finish an 80-percent lower, Behar decried how “they are sold online as do-it-yourself kits.” She falsely claimed a guy can make one of these guns “the same way that he can text me.” She went onto to say she hoped Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett would join the liberal justices “to save this country.” Despite being a former federal prosecutor, Hostin proved that she didn’t know anything about the case before the Supreme Court by conflating 80-percent unfinished lowers, which are made of metal and need to milled out with power tools, with 3D-printed models: “So, we're not sure why this happened, but we do know the instrumentality that was used, and it was a ghost gun that can be printed on your computer.”     Obviously clueless as to the fact that those unfinished lowers were incapable of accepting ammunition let alone fire (that’s the upper receiver’s job), Hostin whined that “lobbyists lobbying” were pointing out “this is not a firearm.” “It obviously is a firearm because a man was killed using one of them. And it is going to be in front of the Supreme Court,” she declared with zero knowledge. “And the Supreme Court is looking at whether or not it is considered a firearm. Of course, it is.” But as The Reload’s Jake Foleman points out in his October 8 headline on the case, the “Supreme Court Weighs When Parts Become a Firearm.” Justices Samuel Alito and Barrett boiled down the case with an analogy asking when do ingredients become a completed meal: “Here’s a blank pad, and here’s a pen, alright? Is this a grocery list?” Justice Samuel Alito asked Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar. “I put out on a counter some eggs, some chopped-up ham, some chopped-up pepper, and onions. Is that a western omelet?” “Would your answer change if you ordered it from HelloFresh and you got a kit, and it was like turkey chili, but all of the ingredients are in the kit?” Justice Barrett said, following on Alito’s analogy. “The justices spent nearly 90 minutes going back and forth with attorneys on both sides of the dispute, probing where to draw the line between a collection of unfinished gun parts and a completed gun under the statute,” Fogleman reported. Of course, Hostin completely ignored that it was completely legal in America to make your own firearm and that it was a tradition dating back centuries. But that didn’t stop her from using to besmirch America, one of her favorite hate objects: When you have something that someone can make in their home and you have the lobbyists saying, but, no, and the gun manufacturers saying these are just hobby guns and so, you know, they shouldn't be regulated says a lot about our country. Just before they whined out at home-made firearms, Behar also lashed out at Republican Senator Ted Cruz (TX) for condemning left-wing violence like the assassination of Thompson. “Of course, Ted Cruz has to politicize it and say it's a left-wing thing,” she shrieked. “And why does Ted Cruz insist on dividing Americans even further?” Behar has previously used her platform on the show to erroneously claim gun owners have a “mental illness” and that Republicans make “a lot of money off children’s deaths.” Who’s the real divider of America, Joy? The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View December 10, 2024 11:04:30 a.m. Eastern (…) JOY BEHAR: Of course, Ted Cruz has to politicize it and say it's a left-wing thing. I mean, I think it was the second attempted assassination on Trump was a kid who was a registered Republican--- ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: The first. BEHAR: -- who also voted for Biden and had a lot of left-wing stuff on his social media, but I don't think that this is -- as you say, it's not a political issue. WHOOPI GOLDBERG: No. BEHAR: And why does Ted Cruz insist on dividing Americans even further? Is my question to him. Another point, these ghost guns are up for discussion at the Supreme Court right now so let us hope that they do the right thing, because, let me see, they do not have serial numbers. GOLDBERG: No, they're ghost guns. They – yeah. BEHAR: Yes. They are sold online as do-it-yourself kits. What type of country are we living in that some nutcase can get a gun that has no serial number that he can make the same way that he can text me? Come on. SARA HAINES: Yeah, well, I think – [Applause] BEHAR: Wait. The Supreme Court is about to do it, to rule on this, because Biden has a whole thing going on to control this. SUNNY HOSTIN: I'd like to follow up with you on that. [Cross talk] BEHAR: But I'm hoping that Roberts and Barrett will go with the other Supreme Court justices Ketanji Jackson and Elena – HOSTIN: Kagan. BEHAR: -- Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor. That they will all vote against this type of thing to save this country, come on. HOSTIN: I was going to bring up the ghost guns, because, you know, I think it's all speculation now as to why someone so young, so promising would do something like this. There's some indication that he was also suffering from chronic back pain. HAINES: Like severe. HOSTIN: Severe chronic back pain. BEHAR: Oh, who hasn't? Everyone has back pain. [Laughter] HOSTIN: So, we're not sure why this happened. But we do know the instrumentality that was used, and it was a ghost gun that can be printed on your computer. And I think what is so frustrating to me is that, you know, you have all these lobbyists lobbying and saying this is not a firearm. It obviously is a firearm because a man was killed using one of them. And it is going to be in front of the Supreme Court. But in recent years, their use, these ghost guns proliferated. I would say there – they are linked to nearly 700 homicides since -- between 2016 and 2021. I mean, that is crazy. That's a tenfold increase. And the Supreme Court is looking at whether or not it is considered a firearm. Of course, it is. And so I agree with you. I think, you know, when you have -- when you have something that someone can make in their home and you have the lobbyists saying, but, no, and the gun manufacturers saying these are just hobby guns and so, you know, they shouldn't be regulated says a lot about our country. (…)