{"id":1848563,"date":"2023-02-15T14:19:57","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T19:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1848563"},"modified":"2023-02-15T14:22:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T19:22:59","slug":"the-view-piles-on-republican-host-for-daring-to-say-mental-health-is-related-to-shootings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-view-piles-on-republican-host-for-daring-to-say-mental-health-is-related-to-shootings\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The View\u2019 Piles On Republican Host For Daring To Say Mental Health Is Related To Shootings"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-view-piles-on-republican-host-for-daring-to-say-mental-health-is-related-to-shootings%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1848563&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s broadcast of \u201cThe View\u201d When the topic was turned to the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/police-warn-of-shots-fired-at-michigan-state-university\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monday evening shooting<\/a> at the Michigan State University campus \u2014 and Republican co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, in addition to defending the Second Amendment, dared to suggest that mental health played a role in mass shootings.<\/p>\n<p>Griffin admitted that she would support additional gun control measures. She said that she supported red flag laws and background checks with a wider range of options. However, Griffin argued that individual firearm ownership is protected by the Constitution, and should not be altered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLegal gun ownership is fundamental in this country,\u201d She spoke.<\/p>\n<p>Co-host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/the-view-hosts-spar-over-guns-after-michigan-school-shooting-its-all-about-banning-those-guns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sunny Hostin<\/a> brought up the AR-15 \u2014 despite it appearing that the shooter at MSU likely used a handgun \u2014 referring to it as a \u201cweapon of mass destruction\u201d Griffin to confirm her belief \u201cassault weapons\u201d Should be legal. Griffin noted that collectors and sportsmen favored the AR-15.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t shoot anything with an AR-15 and get any meat. That\u2019s not sportsmanship. I\u2019m just saying,\u201d Whoopi Goldberg was the co-host.<\/p>\n<p>Griffin continued to push back, saying that while she agreed more could be done to keep guns out of the hands of bad people, shootings were clearly a societal problem \u2014 and she argued that one thing that was impossible to ignore was the fact that so many mass shooters fit the same general profile: male loners in their teens-to-mid-forties.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Alyssa Farah Griffin points out that &#8220;we have a crisis of young men in this country&#8221; This indicates that most mass-shooters fit a specific profile.<br \/>She takes note &#8220;the left will not touch the mental health side&#8221; Sunny takes Sunny&#8217;s point and pounces on Sunny. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t6kfLBYfkc\">pic.twitter.com\/t6kfLBYfkc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickFondacaro\/status\/1625898722230935553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>She also noted that statistics showed young men were statistically less likely to go to college than young women, and they were more likely be arrested or killed by suicide. \u201cWhat is going on with young men in our country that is allowing this to happen, because guns are part of the problem absolutely, but this is where I worry the left and the right bear some responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe left will not touch the mental health side of this and the right will not touch the gun side,\u201d Griffin asserted, prompting objections from co-hosts Joy Behar and Goldberg \u2014 but then Hostin jumped in and proved Griffin\u2019s point.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve said this many many times, let\u2019s stop blaming mental health,\u201d Hostin claimed that victims more often than perpetrators are people with mental illness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople who shoot up Sandy Hook, that\u2019s not a person in their right mind,\u201d Griffin was rebuffed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday\u2019s broadcast of \u201cThe View\u201d got heated when the topic turned to the Monday evening shooting at the Michigan State University campus \u2014 and Republican co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, in addition to defending the Second Amendment, dared to suggest that mental health played a role in mass shootings. 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