Larry King, who hosted his own eponymous CNN show for 25 years and is the anchor for the Russian propaganda channel RT's PoliticKING and Larry King Now, stated on Wednesday that the Second Amendment to the Constitution should be repealed because it’s “poorly written” and was passed by Southerners in the U.S. Senate to fend off slave uprisings.
A video reporter for the TMZ celebrity news website approached King in Beverly Hills, California, and asked if the long-time interviewer supported the call by retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens to undo the measure giving Americans the right to bear arms.
“I favor changing the Second Amendment,” the TV anchor replied before being reminded that the New York Times op-ed[1] called for that measure to be repealed.
“Yeah, repeal it,” King said. “It’s poorly written.”
The reporter then asked: “So you’d like to just rewrite it?”
The former CNN host responded by asking: “What do they mean by “militia?'”
He continued by asserting: “The amendment was passed by Southern senators so they could ward off slaves’ uprisings. … Read the history.”
“I don’t have time right now,” the reporter responded. “Can you just give me a brief background?”
“Eventually, it went to other areas,” King noted, “but Southern senators started it so they could repel slave uprisings.”
“Let the Second Amendment go,” he added before claiming that the National Rifle Association “is the worst.”
However, that wasn’t the first time King slammed the gun-rights organization[2] in front of a TMZ camera.
On the previous Saturday evening, another video reporter asked the TV anchor: “Now what do you get the man who has everything?”
“Well, I don’t have everything,” King replied before suggesting: “I tell you what you can get me. Donate to these kids marching” in the March for Our Lives events[3] that took place earlier that day. “Donate to the Florida kids.”
“That’s a great idea,” the reporter responded before asking: “Another question off that: Do you have any answer to how we’re gonna stop these school massacres?”
“Is there an answer?” he continued.
“Don’t support the NRA,” King replied. “Don’t let them buy congressmen and senators. The NRA is a menace to America. ... Stop taking the money.”
On Thursday, King’s comment about repealing the Second Amendment drew a sharp rebuke[4] from Chicago journalist Nick Kangadis on the MRCTV.org website.
“The ol' bag-o-bones is at it again,” the blogger stated before noting: “King’s dumbest claim ... was that the Second Amendment was written in order to protect from slave uprisings. That couldn’t be further from the truth.”
“Although we wouldn’t expect a ‘journalist’ like
