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UPDATE: The Women Of ‘The View’ Weigh In On Chrissy Teigen’s Ottawa Shooting Tweet

By ETCanada.com Staff.

UPDATE (Thursday, Oct. 23, 3:40 p.m. ET): Chrissy Teigen’s tweet continues to rack up criticism, and the latest to pile on are the women of The View, although one of the show’s co-hosts applauded Chrissy for making a point about gun control.

“I thought it was brilliant and on-point,”; said Rosie O’Donnell of the tweet, “but some people thought it was insensitive.”;

“Timing is everything,”; added ABC News anchor Amy Robach, who joined the panel for today’s show. “And I think when you tweet something like that in the middle of an active shooting, people are afraid, people are running for their lives and a man is dead.”;

For supporting Chrissy, Rosie has been taking heat on Twitter herself after making this comment: “I think she’s saying: I’m an American, I live here. I see two people shot this week in Canada and the entire country of Canada is in mourning. However, in America this happens on a daily day basis and we don’t even pay attention anymore.”;

Here’s The View“s view:

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UPDATE (Thursday, Oct. 23, 2 p.m. ET): After being criticized for an insentitive tweet yesterday making light of the horrific shootings in Ottawa, model Chrissy Teigen has reportedly quit Twitter after receiving death threats. “I feel sick,”; she wrote in what is presumably her final tweet. “Taking my talents to Instagram.”;

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//platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsMeanwhile, the model (and wife of singer John Legend) was blasted by Fox News host Andrea Tantaros, who said Chrissy, “is known for, obviously, her lovely bottom and her food Instagram pictures. She should stick to that. This is the problem when models start to talk; it plays into that dumb model stereotype.”;

— Chrissy Teigen has found herself in hot water over a social commentary tweet gone wrong. The U.S. supermodel took to Twitter on Wednesday with the following message about the tragic shooting in Ottawa:

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Although the tweet appeared to be a jab at America’s ongoing firearm epidemic, many on the social networking site assumed Chrissy was making light of the incident.

The 28-year-old attempted to clarify her stance, stating, “That’s not a joke. It is a fact. Sorry you don’t understand that is a knock at America and our issues with gun control. No one is minimizing the Ottawa shooting.”;

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She added, “For some reason, Canadians think I am saying they have a lot of shootings. I am not saying that. Sigh.”;

Later still, Chrissy confirmed her original tweet prompted a series of online death threats, including one that read, “U F**KING C**T. YOU’LL GET URS SOON ENOUGH.”;

Frustrated with the continued backlash, she posted the following:

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