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RUSH: I just found this out last night. Did you know that the young man, the shooter in Connecticut, was a vegan? Did you know that he was a vegetarian, essentially? Did you know that? <\/p>\n

Ron Fournier used to be a reporter for the Associated Press. Now he\u2019s moved over to the National Journal. It\u2019s an Inside the Beltway bunch. They publish a lot of things, among them, the Hotline and other things. It\u2019s where F. Chuck Todd worked before he went to NBC. He is an acknowledged, committed left-wing Democrat and also a member of the media, which is same thing. He\u2019s got a piece. It was posted, I guess, late yesterday. <\/p>\n

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“What if there is nobody or nothing to blame for Adam Lanza\u2019s heinous acts? Other than Lanza, of course. What if school security and the school psychiatrist kept an eye on Lanza since his freshman year? The Wall Street Journal has a compelling narrative about the red flags addressed. What if he had a form of autism that has little or no link to violent behavior? Lanza may have had Asperger\u2019s syndrome but, even so, that is not a cause. What if it\u2019s too simple to lay the massacre at the feet of the gun lobby?”<\/p>\n

What if the NRA had nothing to do with this? <\/p>\n

“What if Lanza wasn\u2019t provoked by video games? David Axelrod, a close friend and adviser of President Obama, tweeted last night: ‘In NFL post-game: an ad for shoot \u2019em up video game. All for curbing weapons of war. But shouldn\u2019t we also quit marketing murder as a game.\u2019 When I asked whether he was laying groundwork for a White House initiative, Axelrod said no: ‘Just one man\u2019s observation.'”<\/p>\n

Quentin Tarantino\u2019s got this movie with Jamie Foxx about slavery, Django. He uses the N-word in it like a hundred thousand times, shoot \u2019em up, canceled the premiere. Tom Cruise movie with Jack Reacher, shoot \u2019em up movie, canceled the premiere. These Hollywood people are essentially taking on responsibility. Well, they are. They\u2019re canceling their premieres. They\u2019re delaying releases. What are they saying when they\u2019re doing this? I\u2019m not really sure. But it sounds to me like they think they might have some culpability, or they don\u2019t want to be accused of having any so they\u2019re delaying the release and their celebratory premiere parties. <\/p>\n

Mr. Fournier says here:<\/p>\n

“What if there is nobody or nothing to blame? Would that make this inexplicable horror unbearable? What if we didn\u2019t rush to judgement? What if we didn\u2019t waste our thoughts, prayers and actions on assigning blame for the sake of mere recrimination? What if we calmly and ruthlessly learned whatever lessons we can from the massacre — and prevented the next one? What if it wasn\u2019t one thing, but everything, that set off Lanza?”<\/p>\n

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What if it is no more complicated than the guy just did it? In other words, excrement happens. That\u2019s true. You can\u2019t get funding for excrement happens. You can\u2019t advance a political agenda on excrement happens. You can\u2019t blame your political opponents for excrement happens. You can\u2019t. Here\u2019s something else that\u2019s interesting, from the Connecticut CBS affiliate. And again, these people were all wrong on Friday afternoon. So I leave it up to you as to whether you choose to believe this or not. <\/p>\n

“Connecticut Mental Health Bill Defeated Months Before Deadly School Shooting — Before Friday\u00c2\u2019s heinous act, there was talk in Connecticut\u00c2\u2019s state legislature to beef up the state\u00c2\u2019s ‘assisted outpatient treatment\u2019 law, according to Breitbart.com. Connecticut Senate Bill 452 was proposed in February ‘to enhance the care and treatment of persons with psychiatric disabilities in both inpatient and outpatient settings.\u2019 But the bill was defeated in March, with opposition calling it ‘outrageously discriminatory.\u2019 The ACLU said the bill would ‘infringe on patients\u00c2\u2019 privacy rights by expanding [the circle of] who can medicate individuals without their consent.'”<\/p>\n

So everybody said, “We need to beef up our mental health legislation. We need to beef up our treatment. We need to beef up the attention we pay to the mentally ill.” They tried in Connecticut, and a bunch of leftist activist organizations defeated it. A caller yesterday explained why. These people have rights. You can\u2019t just go in there and treat \u2019em like they don\u2019t have rights. You can\u2019t drug them up without their consent. You can\u2019t put them away without their consent. Now, had the bill been passed, had the Connecticut bill been passed, it would have given the state of Connecticut the right to institutionalize a person who is mentally ill for treatment if the state had enough evidence to believe the person could be a danger to himself or the community. <\/p>\n

<\/a>We had a clinical psychiatrist on the phone just yesterday advocating this is what we need<\/a>. Did any of you check out that piece in Gawker yesterday, that I recommended yesterday, “I am Adam Lanza\u2019s Mother?” You check it out. This woman has a mentally ill son who\u2019s already showing these exact signs of behavior, and she can\u2019t do anything about it. She\u2019s at her wits\u2019 end. We had the clinical psychiatrist on the phone saying what we need is exactly what was now, it turns out, defeated in Connecticut. I don\u2019t know. I find it fascinating. <\/p>\n

But, folks, there\u2019s one thing to keep in mind here, and I\u2019ve got a Stack of Stuff here about all of these emotional reactions to this episode. People\u2019s emotional reservoirs only hold so much. Fever pitch emotion subsides after a while. I\u2019m gonna make a prediction. And of course I don\u2019t know; no one can. And I\u2019m by no means certain, but I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if by the time legislative bodies get around to serious legislation infringing on the Second Amendment, the emotional pitch that exists today will have evaporated. It will have dissipated, in effect, and there will be less energy associated with it, and the end result is that probably very little will change. <\/p>\n

What\u2019s happening now are people politically posturing everywhere. I\u2019ll give you some examples. Fortune magazine: “The Money Behind the Newtown Massacre — One way to reduce mass shootings is for big institutions to stop funding the assault weapon manufacturers.” Now, this is from the investing section of Fortune magazine. This is not an editorial. It\u2019s presumably a news item. <\/p>\n

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“Do you know who owns more than a 6% stake in the maker of .223 Bushmaster rifles, like the one used last Friday?” Do you know? It is a private equity group, Cerberus, and they have announced that they are getting out of it. They have announced that they are defunding, they are no longer going to invest in this company. Cerebrus Capital Management has decided that they\u2019re out of there. They don\u2019t want to be seen as investing in an evil weapons manufacturing company. And there are other things. Senator Joe Manchin, West Virginia, and former Virginia Governor Mark Warner are all saying, “No, I\u2019ve had a second opinion. My daughter has changed my mind,” or “I\u2019ve reached the tipping point.” <\/p>\n

Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites to show you what we\u2019re talking about. Let\u2019s start with number nine, Mike. Mark Warner. This was yesterday, Richmond, Virginia, on television. The local anchor interviewing said, “This is a terrible time for America. It renews the discussion about gun control and assault weapons. Do you think that we need to get tougher? And if so, how do we do that?”<\/p>\n

WARNER: I believe every American has Second Amendment rights, and that the ability to hunt is part of our culture. I\u00c2\u2019ve had an NRA rating of an A but, you know, enough is enough. I\u2019m the father of three daughters and this weekend they all said, “Dad, you know, how can this go on?” And I, like most of us, realize that there are ways to get to rational gun control. There are ways to grapple with the obvious challenges of mental illness. There should not be a Democrat or Republican position on this. It is time for this kind of senseless violence to end.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, well, there\u2019s not a person alive who knows how to make it end. There\u2019s not a person alive who can make it end. But here you have Governor Warner now trying to get in on the action. The fever pitch coverage has made it politically attractive for him to say, “You know what? You know what? I\u2019ve changed my mind. We can\u2019t put up with this anymore.” Whether anything beyond where we are now happens, whether there\u2019s tighter legislation or not, he still has a sound bite where he can say that he was for tougher measures even if he doesn\u2019t do anything about it. Jimmy Carter, let\u2019s go back to October 28, 1980. He was in Cleveland.<\/p>\n

CARTER: I had a discussion with my daughter, Amy, the other day before I came here, to ask her what the most important issue was. She said she thought nuclear weaponry.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so I gotta change my mind on nuclear weaponry because Amy doesn\u2019t like it. So Mark Warner: “My daughter convinced me I was wrong on guns.” Jimmy Carter: “My daughter convinced me I was wrong on nuclear weapons.” Here\u2019s Joe Manchin, the senator from West Virginia. He was on CNN with Christiane Amanpour who said, “It\u2019s surprising, perhaps, that you have now come out and said it\u2019s time to rethink the elements of gun control. What was the moment that made you rethink it?”<\/p>\n

MANCHIN: Who would have ever thought in America or anywhere in the world that children would be slaughtered? You know, it\u2019s changed me. But with that being said, people are afraid to talk about some things that just basically should be talked about.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Who\u2019s afraid to talk about it? Nobody\u2019s afraid to talk. That\u2019s all we\u2019re doing is talking about it. That\u2019s all we ever do, is talk about it. Talk, talk, talk, talk, talk. What do you mean, afraid to talk about it? So, anyway, here\u2019s another, Senator Manchin, “Christiane, you know what, that Newtown shooting changed me. Slaughtering children, that changed me.” Senator, you ever heard of Chicago? You know what happens in Chicago every night? What has happened in Chicago cumulatively makes what happened in Newtown look like chump change. I\u2019m not kidding, folks. What happened in Chicago wasn\u2019t enough to make him change his mind. No, it\u2019s the glare of the media on this. It is the focus of attention. It is a politician being a politician.<\/p>\n

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By the way, folks, I just got two e-mails. You know, I have three nieces. I just got two e-mails. You know what they say? “Dear Uncle Rush: With all that\u2019s going on, do you think you should buy more guns?” Everybody else\u2019s daughters are saying, “Get rid of your guns.” My nieces are asking me if I have enough! Heh-heh-heh-heh-heh.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: In the Washington Post: “Marco Rubio Open to Changes in Gun Laws.” It\u2019s a Washington Post story. No details, no specifics are mentioned. But I\u2019m sure they love the headline: “Marco Rubio Open to Changes in Gun Laws.” From the Hollywood Reporter: “Gun Scene Cut From Tom Cruise Movie Marketing in Wake of School Shooting.” This is the movie Jack Reacher that opens in theaters on Friday.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve also moved the premiere to December the 19th. It will be tomorrow in Pittsburgh. Dana Milbank of the Washington Post: “Slow-Walking the Gun Issue.” He\u2019s not at all optimistic that Obama will do anything. Like I mentioned moments ago, he says here that the mood to do something will evaporate. It will dissipate. It always does. The emotional reservoir just isn\u2019t large enough for people to keep this fevered pitch as long as it will require for legislation to take place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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