Michael Moore has reacted to the school shooting in Texas.
The award-winning documentary maker urged for the Second Amendment to be repealed and condemned anti-gun legislators for their "evil policy".
Moore's Oscar-winning 2002 documentary Bowling for Columbine explored America's trouble with gun violence over two decades ago. This week, he called for drastic action to be taken in the wake of the tragic shooting in Uvalde, Texas, which saw 19 children and two teachers killed.
Speaking to MSNBC's Chris Hayes on Tuesday, Moore questioned: "Who will say on this network or any other network in the next few days, 'It’s time to repeal the Second Amendment?'"
He imagined people's response: "'Oh, you can't say that,'" then asked: "Well, why not?"
Moore went on to argue that the Constitution's Second Amendment - which was ratified in 1791 and has been used since to guarantee the right to bear arms - would not have been written had the Founding Fathers known how artillery would evolve.
"I truly believe if Jefferson, Madison and Washington if they all knew that the bullet would be invented — some 50 years after our revolution, I don’t know if they would have written it that way. They didn’t even know what a bullet was. It didn’t exist until the 1830s. [If] they had any idea that there would be this kind of carnage, you have to believe that the Founders of the country would not support it," he said.
The Fahrenheit 9/11 director added that America needs drastic gun control legislation to prevent future shootings. "I support all gun control legislation. Not sensible gun control. We don’t need the sensible stuff. We need the hardcore stuff that’s going to protect ourselves and our children," he told Hayes.
Moore concluded by saying that he had "thoughts and prayers" - and that those thoughts and prayers were that representatives who oppose gun reform be removed from public office in the November elections for their "evil policy".
A 2018 survey found that 1 in 5 Americans wanted the Second Amendment to be repealed, per The Seattle Times.
