Guns don’t kill people, Prozac and virtual reality kill people.
In the aftermath of the deadliest school shooting since Sandy Hook, Fox News hosts and analysts alike took to the air to address the “real dynamic and core issue” behind an AR-15-armed former student who took 17 lives.
Asked by “Fox & Friends” hosts Brian Kilmeade and Ainsley Earhardt why we shouldn’t jump to conclusions and focus on gun control during Thursday morning’s episode, contributor Tammy Bruce said it’s actually about “the human condition.”
There’s facts of the matter here on the ground,” Bruce says in video picked up by Media Matters. “As an example, 70 percent, 70 percent of Americans are on at least one prescription drug. The most prescribed drugs, of course, are antidepressants and opioids.”
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“Fox & Friends” used the aftermath of the Parkland, Fla., massacre to talk about the real threat to society: giant plastic goggles worn by teens to play video games. It was the only morning show on which elected Republican officials appeared Thursday. (RICHARD DREW/AP/ PORTRAIT, LANDSCAPE/GETTY IMAGE)
Bruce, whose background is in political science according to her website’s biography, goes on to suggest a connection between these types of medication, “the availability of the extraordinarily violent imagery since September 11th” and acts of violence, citing that “how adults respond to these drugs are different than how young people do.”
Moving the discussion along, Kilmeade asks, “And what about virtual reality? Those glasses that put you in a battle, put you at war?”
Bruce acknowledges this only to say “we’re not addressing how culture has changed” while also dismissing talks of gun control, the self-proclaimed “Second Amendment advocate” deeming them “important to many people” but ultimately an “immediate reaction.”
“It’s also a political one,” she says.
Source: NY Daily News