‘The View’ Reacts to Colorado Springs LGBTQ Nightclub Shooting: “It’s Breaking My Heart”

After multiple people were killed at an LGBTQ bar in Colorado this weekend, The View sounded off on the rise in hateful rhetoric in America and the seemingly endless string of mass shootings happening in the country. The latest tragedy took place at Club Q in Colorado Springs, where five people were killed and at least 25 were injured late Saturday evening (Nov. 19).

Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin shared similar reactions to the senseless act, both questioning why people lash out in a violent manner when confronted with ideas or concepts they disagree with.

“I keep on wondering, if you don’t want to go to a gay club ’cause you don’t like gay people, don’t go to the club. Why you gotta shoot up the club?” Hostin asked. “If you don’t want to be a person married to a gay person, then just don’t get married to a gay person.”

Goldberg, who introduced the topic, began by saying, “It’s breaking my heart that we’re starting, once again, with this kind of topic.”

She later offered her own question as Hostin had before her, wondering, “if you’re so afraid, why are you going over there? If they scare you so much, leave ’em alone. When stuff scares me, I leave it alone. If I don’t want to be bothered, I don’t go there.”

“See, that’s the problem. You don’t wanna just have your feelings,” Goldberg continued. “You want everybody else to join you, and you know what? You can scream, you can cuss, you can do all the things that you say, but you know what? Gay people are here. They’re not going anywhere. There is nothing you can do.”

“You can yell and scream, but as the lord … made in God’s image. There are no ‘but,’ ‘except for.’ There’s none of that,” Goldberg said. “Keep that in mind when you’re trying to figure out where you stand as a human being, let alone a Christian.”

The View airs weekdays at 11/10c on ABC. Watch this morning’s full segment on the nightclub shooting in the video above.