Joy Behar: ‘All Gun Owners Have a Mental Illness’ and ‘Must Be Stopped Immediately’

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The View co-host Joy Behar lashed out at law-abiding gun owners on Thursday, accusing those millions of Americans of having a “mental illness” and declaring they “must be stopped immediately.”

“We need to grow up,” Behar sneered at America while falsely asserting that “[w]e’re between Venezuela and Brazil with the most mass shootings. There were 40 mass shooting it in the first 24 days of this year,” she said, parroting a statistic from Gun Violence Archive that has been debunked multiple times.

Behar was speaking in response to a teacher getting shot by a 6-year-old in a Virginia school, where officials blatantly ignored multiple warnings that the kid had taken a gun to school that day.

Newsbusters reports:

Clearly referring to private gun ownership and support for Second Amendment rights, Behar argued: “There’s like a mental illness going on in the country that has to be stopped immediately.” She went on to suggest that President Biden’s efforts to stop them were being thwarted by “people who are getting money from the gun lobby and who want to keep [mass shootings] going. It’s disgraceful.”

What ABC News and The View didn’t want viewers to know was that an expansive Georgetown University study of guns in America conducted last year, found “that guns are used defensively by firearms owners in approximately 1.67 million incidents per year.”

After giving a weak endorsement of gun rights, self-described conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin noted that “98 percent of mass shootings in this country are young men … between adolescence and young adulthood” and share signs of actual mental illness. “[T]here is a mental health component and there is a crisis of young men in this country that we don’t know how to address and I don’t think we’re talking about it enough,” she implored them to take into account.

Behar scoffed at the facts. “They have mentally ill people in the European Union, don’t they? So, the one thing they don’t have is access to guns. So, this mental health idea is baloney. It’s baloney,” she flailed. “I don’t think it is baloney though. Because again, I can own a gun my whole life and never use it to commit a crime,” Farah Griffin pushed back.

There was a cacophony of crosstalk and co-host Sunny Hostin shrieked that “[p]eople with mental illness are more likely to be victims of crime than attacking other people.” It’s been a common argument she’s deployed in an attempt to try to sever the connection between mass shooters and mental illness.

Of course, that stat might be true, but when we slice things down to look at who’s committing mass shootings (not those improperly counted by Gun Violence Archive) there is a spectrum of mental illness.

Interestingly, Sara Haines noted other societal problems that could lead a troubled young man to commit a mass shooting and came off sounding a bit like a conservative again:

You also can’t separate the problem with pornography, and video games, and the disconnection between young people, and a lack of empathy, and racism, and you name it all. It is layered beyond belief and it’s not as simple as, “we got tons of guns, get rid of them.” Some people have them illegally. Some people have them legally.

Behar was made to read a fact-check of her dubious comparison of the U.S. to Venezuela and Brazil. After a commercial break, Behar read from her phone that the U.S. is “between Brazil and Venezuela for highest total gun deaths, not specifically mass shootings.”

Again, her statistic was misleading. According to the Pew Research Center, a majority of gun deaths in America are suicides (often the result of mental illness), not homicides. That number has reached upwards of two-thirds of gun deaths.

Baxter Dmitry

Baxter Dmitry

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51 Comments

  1. There must be some sort of stupidity or crazy pills those people take daily, or hourly to enable their constant obsessions in communism.

  2. If you do not like or respect Our Constitutional Republic And Our Ability To Defend Ourselves, LEAVE while you still can.

  3. American citizens that believe in the God given right to protect themselves, and their families, from the truly evil people in the world, the right guaranteed to them by the 2nd Amendment of our Constitution, do not have “mental illness.” The truly evil people that hate our country, and our constitution, are mentally ill.

  4. Joys a closet lesbian. So she would secretly want her own automatic, but is in Denial. She needs help. But she won’t get it cause she’s too stubborn and cowardly.

  5. KPSS: Türkiye’de kamu kurumlarında çalışmak isteyen kişilerin girmek zorunda olduğu sınavdır. Bu sınav genellikle Nisan ve Ekim aylarında yapılır ve öğrencilerin Türkçe, matematik, sosyal bilimler, genel kültür, bilgi ve yeterliliklerini ölçer. Başarılı olan adaylar belirlenen pozisyonlara atanabilir.

  6. I have a friend who posted on Twitter that Trans used to be a mental disorder but is now considered normal and He got suspended from Twitter yesterday, but she can say this and I’m sure its on Twitter and thats OKAY. Elon sure ain’t controlling his checkers very well…

  7. People with guns created this Nation & made it the most wealthy & free nation on earth. People from all over the world still risk their lives to enter the US & Communist nations need to guard their borders to keep their prisoners inside. If we allow ourselves to be disarmed by this increasingly dictatorial government, we will become another prison nation run by Democommie dictators.

  8. Here’s a history of what happens after people “within” governments have disarmed their citizens:

    1911 – Turkey disarmed it’s citizens, and between 1915 – 1917 they Murdered 1.5 million Armenians.

    1929 – Russia disarmed it’s citizens, and between 1929 – 1953 they Murdered 20 million Russians.

    1935 – China disarmed it’s citizens, and between 1948 – 1952 they Murdered 20 million Chinese.

    1938 – Germany disarmed it’s citizens, and between 1939 – 1945 they Murdered 16 million Jews.

    1956 – Cambodia disarmed it’s citizens, and between 1975 – 1977 they Murdered 1 million Educated people.

    1964 – Guatemala disarmed it’s citizens, and between 1964 – 1981 they Murdered 100,000 Mayan Indians.

    1970 – Uganda disarmed it’s citizens, and between 1971 – 1979 they Murdered 300,000 Christians.

    You can argue about the numbers, but the point here is that disarmed citizens are vulnerable, and that there are many historical examples of disarmed citizens being Murdered and oppressed by their own government. The excuse given by authorities that they need to take guns away from citizens in order to lower crime rates is not supported by Facts. Even if a government does not turn on its own citizens after disarming them, people are less safe – because unarmed citizens are easy targets to criminals. Over and over again, it has been clearly shown that taking guns away from citizens does not lead to a decrease in crime but rather a dramatic increase.

    Australia has disarmed its citizens, and a year later the homicide rate in the largest province is up 300%. The burglaries of seniors are “dramatically” up.

    I guess the criminals did not turn their weapons in. Only the innocent law-abiding citizens turned in weapons.

    In US cities with the highest crime rates, taking guns away from the citizens has not lowered the homicide rate. All it has done is to make it easier for criminals to operate.

    The Second Amendment is not about duck hunting, or deer hunting. It is about having the ability and the Right to defend oneself and your family. It doesn’t matter if that threat is a burglar, or the Federal Government. A disarmed population is fair game for any president who may be aspiring to become a dictator. Having its citizens armed was the plain and simple intent of the Founding Fathers of Our country.

  9. Yes I agree, she is an atrociously ugly demoness.
    But I think she was speaking of Israel.
    In Israel, everyone has a gun, and must be trained as IDF soldiers, by a certain age.
    It shouldn’t even be call a nation.
    It should be called the insane asylum that it is.
    One for the extra-violent, vicious, terminally, and criminally insane, super-race,
    who should not be allowed to have any guns,
    because they are a potential harm to themselves and the entire gentile world.

  10. Who watches her show anyway? Irreversably stupid people. Don’t worry about her. Worry about the lefties in our government who are organizing many of these shooting events to get support for gun control.

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