Hugh Hewitt: If People Buy a Lot of Guns in a Short Time, It Should Trigger a Red Flag

CHUCK TODD: I want to go to something else that Peggy Noonan brought up. Because she goes, “We need to ask the question, why are- why is this plurality of Americans, it’s not a majority, stockpiling so many guns?”

HUGH HEWITT: They’re afraid. Peggy’s piece was—

CHUCK TODD: So her theory is—

HUGH HEWITT: They are afraid.

CHUCK TODD: —is that they are afraid.

HUGH HEWITT: They’re afraid not of confiscation. And I was unfamiliar with what Representative Scalise said about seizing guns in New Orleans after Katrina. But they are afraid of having to defend themselves. If in Puerto Rico, the power goes down, the grid goes down, there are legitimate fears. And that’s why 35 percent to 45 percent of American households have a weapon. It does not account for people who stockpile. And I would suggest the one place where you might have a consensus is like with controlled narcotics. If people buy a lot of them in a short period of time, it triggers a red flag.