‘The View’ Blasts
GOP Efforts to Repeal Gun Ban for Military Veterans
by AWR Hawkins 16 Mar 2017
During the March
16 airing of ABC’s The View,
host Sarah Haines said she is “really disturbed” by House Republican efforts to
repeal the gun ban for military veterans.
On March 13 Breitbart News
reported that GOP leaders were eyeing a repeal of the gun ban, which is
structured in a manner that is very similar to the recently repealed Social
Security gun ban. Both bans were designed in a way that strips individuals of
their Second Amendment rights without due process and both target the most
vulnerable of Americans–those on disability who are suffering from mental
duress or some degree of mental illness.
After the Social Security gun ban was finalized in
December 2016, Duke University psychiatry and behavioral science professor
Jeffrey Swanson warned that it targeted “the vulnerable”
rather than the dangerous. His warning was based on the fact that a mental
health moniker is very broad, covering everything from depression to severe
mental illness. Writing in The
Washington Post, Swanson said, “The mental health
conditions in question might range from moderate intellectual disabilities to
depression, bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.”
The clear takeaway from Swanson’s column was that many
Social Security beneficiaries with minor–or even temporary–mental conditions
were going to lose their rights along with people who had more extensive
problems.
This same concern surrounds the gun ban for military
veterans. For this reason, House Committee on Veteran Affairs chairman Phil
Roe (R-TN-1) is pushing the Veterans
2nd Amendment Protection Act to repeal the ban and protect
military veterans’ Second Amendment rights.
But the hostesses of the The View are
troubled by the GOP effort to repeal the ban. Haines
said, “One thing that really disturbed me yesterday was a bill
that’s going to the floor in the House this week that’s called the Veterans 2nd
Amendment Protection Act. Not many people can argue with what this is; this is
about mentally ill veterans that have been deemed ‘mentally incompetent.'”
Joy Behar interjected, “Well. they have PTSD, a lot of
them.”
Haines concurred and then said, “That is why 14 retired
admirals have come out to say please do not pass this bill.”
Haines referenced the Social Security gun ban–without
actually calling it by name–by saying the gun ban for military veterans “is the
second one allowing mentally ill people [to get guns].”
Following more conversation, Whoopi Goldberg repeated the
#FakeNews mantra, saying, “This is the second time they are saying it is okay
for people with issues [to get guns].” After some back and forth, Goldberg
added, “When you say you care about mental health issues, you cannot then turn around
say, ‘Let’s give him or her a gun.'”
Throughout the conversation, Haines and Behar spoke
negatively of the NRA and warned that the NRA was behind the effort to repeal
the ban and protect the Second Amendment rights of military veterans. None of
the hostesses pointed out that the admirals who signed a letter opposing repeal
of the ban did so under the auspices of Gabby Giffords’ gun control group,
Veterans Coalition for Common Sense.
Jedediah Bila suggested reading the bill to see what it
actually says.
Gabby Giffords’ gun control group
Gabrielle
Giffords is a co-founder for the Americans
for Responsible Solutions.
Note: Sean Parker was a contributor for the
Americans for Responsible Solutions,
and is a member, board of advisers for the Mayor's
Fund to Advance New York City.
Bloomberg
Family Foundation was a funder for the Mayor's
Fund to Advance New York City.
Americans
for Responsible Solutions is a “Gun
Safety, Gun Control” PAC for guns.
Michael R.
Bloomberg was a contributor for the Americans
for Responsible Solutions, a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone, a New
York (NY) mayor, is the founder of the Bloomberg
Family Foundation, a friend of Barbara
Walters, the founder of Independence
USA PAC, a co-chair for the Mayors
Against Illegal Guns, and the founder of Everytown for Gun Safety.
George
Soros was a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone, the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society, and is a friend of Michael Douglas.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Harlem Children's Zone, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank), and the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Star
Jones was an assistant district attorney for New York (NY), and a co-host for The View.
Barbara Walters
was a co-host for The View, and is a
friend of Michael R. Bloomberg.
Independence
USA PAC is a “Gun Safety, Gun Control” PAC for guns.
Mayors
Against Illegal Guns is a “Gun
Safety, Gun Control” group for guns.
Everytown
for Gun Safety is a “Gun Safety,
Gun Control” group for guns.
Warren E. Buffett
is an advisory board member for Everytown
for Gun Safety, and an adviser for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Michael Douglas
is a director at the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank), and a friend of George Soros.
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank),
was the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank), a trustee at the Rockefeller
Foundation, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think
tank), is a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think
tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United States in war)
Rockefeller
Foundation was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank), the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace (think tank), and the Mayor's
Fund to Advance New York City.
Bloomberg
Family Foundation was a funder for the Mayor's
Fund to Advance New York City.
Sean
Parker is a member, board of advisers for the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City, and was a contributor for
the Americans for Responsible Solutions.
Gabrielle Giffords
is a co-founder for the Americans for
Responsible Solutions, and married to Mark
E. Kelly.
Mark E. Kelly is
married to Gabrielle Giffords’ a co-founder
for the Americans for Responsible
Solutions, and an astronaut at the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Americans
for Responsible Solutions is a “Gun
Safety, Gun Control” PAC for guns.
Blue Origin LLC
leases the launch facility to the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Jeffrey P. Bezos
is the founder of Blue Origin LLC,
and a member of the Breakthrough Energy
Coalition.
George
Soros is a member of the Breakthrough
Energy Coalition, is a friend of Michael
Douglas, was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society, and a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Harlem Children's Zone, the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace (think tank), and the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Michael R.
Bloomberg was a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone, a contributor for the Americans
for Responsible Solutions, a New
York (NY) mayor, is the founder of the Bloomberg
Family Foundation, a friend of Barbara
Walters, the founder of Independence
USA PAC, a co-chair for the Mayors
Against Illegal Guns, and the founder of Everytown for Gun Safety.
Star
Jones was an assistant district attorney for New York (NY), and a co-host for The View.
Barbara Walters
was a co-host for The View, and is a
friend of Michael R. Bloomberg.
Richard C. Blum
is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), married
to Senator Dianne Feinstein, and a
regent at the University of California.
University
of California is a member of the Breakthrough
Energy Coalition.
Jeffrey P. Bezos
is a member of the Breakthrough Energy
Coalition, and the founder of Blue
Origin LLC.
Blue Origin LLC
leases the launch facility to the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Scott J. Kelly
is an astronaut for the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and Mark E. Kelly’s brother.
Mark E. Kelly is Scott J. Kelly’s brother, an astronaut
for the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA), married to Gabrielle
Giffords, and a co-founder for the Americans
for Responsible Solutions.
Gabrielle
Giffords is married to Mark E. Kelly,
and a co-founder for the Americans for
Responsible Solutions.
Americans
for Responsible Solutions is a “Gun
Safety, Gun Control” PAC for guns.
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