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| Newton, Conn. elementary school shooter Adam Lanza |
Frankly I'm just tired of being "shocked and saddened" over the horrifying slaughter of innocent people by gun violence. Aurora, Virginia Tech, Newton...how long do we keep adding the names of these towns and places and the innocent victims of these sick individuals who use illegally obtained guns to murder people?
My good friend "FK" just forwarded me an e-mail with a link to the blog of investigative reporter Jon Rappoport. In a December 15th post titled, Lanza, Bloomberg, Obama, Guns, Psychiatric Meds and Mass Hypnosis: the TV Script, Rappoport takes the mainstream TV media to task for lulling viewers into a state of hypnotic sense of numb helplessness by trying to "make sense" of this tragedy without using the power, reach and influence of the media to ask the really hard questions that lie at the core of 20-year old Adam Lanza's murder of children (six and seven year-olds) and adults at an elementary school.
Rappoport questions why the media aren't asking Lanza's physician what kinds of drugs he may have been taking for the well-documented behavioral problems stemming from his Asperger's Syndrome and whether or not that played into his decision to shoot his mother in the face then proceed to the Sandy Hook Elementary School and gun down 20 children and 7 adults.
Why have mainstream media outlets been largely absent on the issue of gun control in this nation?
I watched the President speak last night but in the subsequent analysis by television news hosts and reporters, I saw very little discussion about the killer's mother and what role her delusional doomsday scenario obsessions, survivalist tendencies and decision to keep five weapons (including an assault rifle) in the house played in this event.
Obviously it's still early to reach conclusions. But the UK's Daily Mail Website seems to be one of the few news organizations asking the harder questions about Adam Lanza's mother Nancy and how her stockpiling of food, water, weapons and ammunition, her apparent beliefs that civilized society was coming to an end, as well as her choice to teach a child with a mental condition how to use weapons may have contributed to this unspeakable horror.
Of course the NRA, the gun manufacturers who bankroll them and their supporters on Capitol Hill in the House and Senate are not just silent on this issue; they're absolutely no where to be found. No Senator or Congressman who supports the NRA would even appear on any of the Sunday Morning news talk shows.
What's the reaction of the NRA, which has fought even the most basic kinds of restrictions on background security checks for people who buy guns and also fought the assault weapons ban?
They took down their Facebook page and it's Twitter account is silent. Their silence tells you just about all you need to know about their opposition to the need for stricter gun control laws in this nation. As the President said, enough is enough; we've got to have meaningful change.
It's almost 2013, isn't it past time the Supreme Court re-evaluated the definition and language of the 2nd Amendment of the US Constitution drafted in the 1700's when we had no standing army and people used flintlock rifles to defend themselves against the British Army?
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