In the wake of the dreadful Sandy Hook elementary school shooting,
FOX NEWS and the NRA have launched a series of misleading statements in an
effort to put a stop to the public's demand for stricter gun laws.
Both FOX NEWS and the NRA are attempting to shift the attention to
people who suffer from mental illness as the reason why Adam Lanza went on a
shooting rampage with a Bushmaster semi-automatic rifle killing 20 children ages
six and seven and six school administrators and teachers and Lanza's mother.
FOX NEWS, who obviously know nothing about mental illness, have
gone so far as to say everyone with some form of mental illness should
periodically be subjected to an evaluation to see if they might be a danger to
society.
What FOX NEWS fails to realize is a person with mental illness
could go off their psychiatric meds and within a matter of a few days turn into
a psychopathic killer.
It is also noteworthy to point out, FOX NEWS is one of the
strongest advocates for cutting mental health funding by both the Federal
government and state governments.
The upshot is FOX NEWS and the NRA will do and say anything to
block any legislation which might be proposed to tighten gun sale loopholes or
the sale of semi-automatic weapons.
The weapon Adam Lanza used was a Bushmaster semi-automatic rifle
and police authorities say he fired between three and eleven bullets into each
of the victims.
In the coming weeks, FOX NEWS and the NRA will be pulling out all
the stops to deflect attention away from guns, especially semi-automatic rifles,
to mental illness, poor parenting or anything else they can come up with just so
they can maintain 271 MILLION guns that are now in the hands of Americans all
across the country.
Bill Corcoran,
