Megyn Kelly abandoned her fluffy, “morning host” persona Thursday and delivered a fiery invective against the nation’s gun laws. She demanded change, accusing the U.S. of doing too little to protect innocent lives from gunfire.
Kelly’s diatribe comes a day after a 19-year-old gunman murdered 17 people at a Florida high school.
“There have been at least 12 school shootings in America so far in 2018. It’s February 15th,” Kelly began.
“We’re averaging one just about every three or four days. How are we doing, America? Everyone OK with that? Apparently, the answer is in fact yes because we haven’t done virtually anything to stop it.”
Kelly has mostly shied away from “serious” subjects throughout her rocky post at NBC. “Megyn Kelly Today” is billed as a light-hearted morning show. Her passionate pleas for change marks a return to her journalistic roots.
“We’re going to say how sorry, shocked, and sad we are, and then we’re going to move on without doing anything. And then we’ll express how sorry and shocked and sad we are at the next one and the one after that. Does anyone really think that we’re going to do anything after these mass murders?” she continued.
“I don’t.”
Kelly believes that the answer to America’s mass shooting problem is to introduce new gun control legislation. She’s far from alone in this belief, although any such legislation stands little chance of clearing a Republican-controlled Congress.
“And then there are the guns,” Kelly said.
“No gun reforms are getting through. They’re not! And most of the ones that will be proposed in the wake of this shooting will be utterly meaningless and wouldn’t have even arguably prevented this killing. The NRA is too powerful. Our politicians are too weak. And the guns are too ubiquitous.”
Kelly’s speech was well-received by her viewers.
(Source: Decider)