Inciting Violence: The View Justifies Bringing Guns to Use Against ICE

The mask fully came off during Monday’s edition of The View and exposed their true extremist face. Reacting to another ICE-involved shooting death in Minnesota, ABC News co-hosts declared that the law enforcement actions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement were the kind of thing America’s Founding Fathers wanted the Second Amendment used for. It was The View’s most direct incitement to violence to date.

Despite being staunchly against the Second Amendment prior to weekend shooting, including denouncing a concealed gun carrier for stopping a mass shooting, The View cast was suddenly Second Amendment scholars.

Pretend independent co-hosts Sara Haines (with agreement from co-host Sunny Hostin, who once claimed the Second Amendment was only about enforcing slavery) proclaimed that the Second Amendment was intended to be used for moments like what was happening in Minnesota:

HAINES: And the birth of the Second Amendment was about the people being able to protect themselves in case the government was to turn on them.

SUNNY HOSTIN: It's for this very same thing!

HAINES: Yes! Exactly what's happening right now. I'm guessing he carries this wherever he goes, whatever. But this is a prime example of what people were allowed to protect themselves against; was to carry that weapon.

 

 

Despite their conversation going on for just under four minutes, when they have often gone more than double that length, the producers immediately started playing them off to go to a commercial. And given moderator Whoopi Goldberg’s irritated look off screen, it seemed like a surprise.

Earlier in the show, Haines seemed to plant the seeds to assert that guns were needed to stave off ICE violence.

Ignoring the riots overnight, and other attempts on their lives, Haines claimed the only ones being violent were the ICE agents and claimed they were trying to “win by shooting people”:

The people that seem to be bringing the violence are the ICE agents themselves. And I know there are good ICE agents, but the problem is they're currently recruiting people using imagery from single-shooter games, giving them this vibe that they're coming to get rid of, you know, vermin. And then they're also telling them you have immunity. Steven Miller is saying you have immunity, J.D. Vance is saying you have immunity. They're not only not going to just win by shooting people, they're not even getting investigated properly.

 

 

Haines had a history to promoting the deaths of her political opponents. In 2023, Haines - a staunchly pro-choice leftist - proclaimed that pro-lifers should die of cancer because it's "God's will."

Prior to talking about the gun what was present at the shooting of Alex Pretti, Goldberg seemed to claim that he didn’t have one at all. “They murdered a man. He is standing, he has his phone and he has a bottle of water. He has his phone and a bottle of water and they shot him ten TIMES!” she shouted.

ABC and The View did not respond to NewsBusters’ request for comment.

Else where in their conversation, co-host Ana Navarro claimed there was no evidence that ICE had arrested any criminal illegal immigrant (despite The View previously calling the evidence “defamatory”). She also falsely suggested that only thing Pretti had on him was a camera.

The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:

ABC’s The View
January 26, 2026
11:05:01 a.m. Eastern

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WHOOPI GOLDBERG: So, people on both sides of the aisle are saying the account from Noem and bovine does not seem to match what they watched on their -- with their own two eyes. So, the question is, how long can they continue this? They murdered a man. He is standing, he has his phone and he has a bottle of water. He has his phone and a bottle of water and they shot him ten TIMES! What the -- what is your thoughts?

SARA HAINES: I think this is why these people are showing up as ICE watchers and protesting to make sure we have video, because they're not allowing local law enforcement to investigate these moments. So, without these videos of bystanders, we wouldn't have seen what happened.

But I found it interesting that Kristi Noem and Greg Bovino were saying this man clearly wanted to do maximum damage. He’s a domestic terrorist. The people that seem to be bringing the violence are the ICE agents themselves. And I know there are good ICE agents, but the problem is they're currently recruiting people using imagery from single-shooter games, giving them this vibe that they're coming to get rid of, you know, vermin. And then they're also telling them you have immunity. Steven Miller is saying you have immunity, J.D. Vance is saying you have immunity.

They're not only not going to just win by shooting people, they're not even getting investigated properly. So the administration has spoken and set the tone for this, and that's what we're seeing right now. And that's why people are being killed completely unjustly because they not only came after him, when you watch that videos from a gazillion different angles and there’s not a lot of grey area. They're spraying them with a pepper spray before they’re even doing any – they’re not even doing anything.

And people have a right to blow whistles, to call out. Those are all protected First Amendment rights. There is no discrepancy there.

(…)

11:22:34 a.m. Eastern

HAINES: By the way, when you have a license or a permit to carry, oftentimes people always carry. So, I had an ex who was an NYPD, he wasn't on the job at all, he didn't go to Dunkin' Donuts without his weapon on him. Carrying a weapon into places when you are legally carrying that becomes like anywhere you go.

And the birth of the Second Amendment was about the people being able to protect themselves in case the government was to turn on them.

SUNNY HOSTIN: It's for this very same thing!

HAINES: Yes! Exactly what's happening right now.

I'm guessing he carries this wherever he goes, whatever. But this is a prime example of what people were allowed to protect themselves against; was to carry that weapon

So, it wasn't something you even saw him handle -

[Start of being played off]

-which is the perfect example to prove the point.

GOLDBERG: [Looks off stage irritated at producer and scoffs]  We will talk more about this when we come back.