{"id":431129,"date":"2021-04-16T16:52:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T20:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=431129"},"modified":"2021-04-16T16:52:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T20:52:16","slug":"rep-johnson-congress-should-focus-on-mental-health-information-sharing-to-curb-gun-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-johnson-congress-should-focus-on-mental-health-information-sharing-to-curb-gun-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Johnson: Congress should focus on mental health, information sharing to curb gun violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Frep-johnson-congress-should-focus-on-mental-health-information-sharing-to-curb-gun-violence%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=431129&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--><div id=\"attachment_2399039\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2399039\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA). (Photo by Matt McClain-Pool\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 1:15 PM PT \u2013 Friday, April 16, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Congressman Mike Johnson (R-La.) has called for Democrats to take up measures to help stop gun violence without infringing on the Second Amendment. During an interview with One America News Friday, Johnson said the recent mass <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/officials-give-update-on-fedex-shooting-in-indianapolis\/\">shooting at an Indianapolis FedEx<\/a> facility was absolutely tragic.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about any constitutional measures the left could propose to help curb violence, Johnson said mental health needs to be addressed, but the idea of banning so-called \u201cassault weapons\u201d is a step too far.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to jealously guard the Second Amendment,\u201d Rep. Johnson said. \u201cThere is always a knee-jerk kind of reaction. People want the country to be safe, they want our communities to be safe, but the answer is not to restrict the inalienable rights of law-abiding citizens in that process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Louisiana congressman went on to say, there are many things Congress can do, and that it should be involved, but it should not take account of \u201cwhere everybody\u2019s guns are to try to confiscate them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should be investing in mental health, we should be investing in information sharing amongst law enforcement facilities,\u201d Johnson stated. \u201cWe should make sure that people who have mental instability don\u2019t have access to firearms, but there are meaningful ways to approach that in terms of public policy that don\u2019t trample upon the Second Amendment. And that\u2019s what we\u2019re trying to prevent happening here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This came after the Biden administration repeated its talking points about taking action against so-called \u201cghost guns\u201d and imposing \u201cred flag\u201d fire-arm restrictions.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/officials-give-update-on-fedex-shooting-in-indianapolis\/\">Indianapolis FedEx Facility Gunman Identified<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA). (Photo by Matt McClain-Pool\/Getty Images) OAN NewsroomUPDATED 1:15 PM PT \u2013 Friday, April 16, 2021 Congressman Mike Johnson (R-La.) has called for Democrats to take up &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276138,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}