Melissa Harris Perry Says Men Wouldn’t Shoot Their Wives If They Didn’t Have Guns…Or Something

You literally never know what kind of mumbo jumbo’s going to come out of Melissa Harris Perry’s mouth. Whether she’s comparing unborn babies to cancer, lamenting the racist undertones of the term “hard worker” (Star Wars is racist too, FYI) or making fun of a Republican’s black grandchild, I’m always legitimately surprised by the lunacy that comes out of her mouth.

During a discussion about Quintonio LeGrier, a 19-year-old man who was shot and killed by police in Chicago during a domestic dispute, Harris Perry said the real problem is the fact that virtually anyone can have a gun. So basically, police officers never know if a person is armed. That’s why so many husbands shoot their wives. Or something.

That part was somehow relevant to the conversation.

Melissa Harris-Perry: It seems to me that part of what happened in each of these cases is — and the question of fear — is it in part because we live in a country where really anybody at any moment might, in fact, have a gun. Again, I keep thinking about Quintonio’s father in Chicago calling for help for his son, calling the police, and his son ends up shot and killed by the police. Now I don’t know exactly what happened, we will be learning more. But I presume some part of it is that these police officers think that this kid might be armed because we think everybody might be armed. Shouldn’t officers be the number one folks behind gun control?

 

Jon Shane: Well, you do have a lot of second amendment officers. I happen to favor carrying a gun myself. I don’t think there’s much wrong with it. The reality is how are we going to keep the illegal guns away from people? It’s a very easy thing to do to keep guns —

Harris-Perry: A lot of people shoot their wives with perfectly legal guns.

 

Shane: And?

 

Harris-Perry: So they wouldn’t if they did not have them. So, so —

 

Shane: But we’re not going to take guns away from people. We’re just going to make it harder for law-abiding citizens to get them.

So take guns away from everyone. Got it.

h/t Daily Caller