Talk radio was on the mental illness thing on Friday afternoon. Local radio hosts John and Ken were poo-pooing gun control and making the case for reinstutionalization well before the viral articles like "I am Adam Lanza's mom" popped up. The chatter had already tried to analyze Ryan Lanza when he was alleged to be the killer based on his Facebook page. So speculating on Adam Lanza was to be expected.
On Dec 16, 2012, at 8:58 PM, Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote: For what it's worth: it seems to be almost as a preventative move from the pro gun folks as well as an awareness from mental health advocates who have jumped on this (even though I fail to see any connection and would even go so far as to say that the discussion of mental health advocacy, while desperately needed, muddies the waters here). On Sunday, December 16, 2012, PGage wrote: > On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 8:15 PM, David Lynch > <[email protected]<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '[email protected]');> > > wrote: > >> I've been hearing the "Let's talk about mental health care instead of gun >> control" thing from some of my circles on the left, too. It's like we've >> decided as a country that gun control just too emotionally fraught a >> problem to do anything but ignore it and hope it goes away. >> > > Fair enough - after reading your note I went back and did a more careful > analysis of my FB page and see that very similarly worded arguments were > posted this morning by people I would have guessed were far right as well > as leaning left. Perhaps it is just a coincidence (I will have to think a > little about how many different ways there are to word the argument), but > it did seem like a handful of people who did not know each other had all > been influenced by the same source sometime this morning. > -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
