Was there a Right Wing connection to the shooting in Connecticut?

Nancy Lanza, mother and victim of Sandy Hill shooter.

Courtesy of the Daily Mail:  

The mother of Newtown school massacre gunman Adam Lanza was a survivalist who was stockpiling food because she thought the world economy was on the verge of collapse. 

Nancy Lanza began hoarding food and water because she feared that the onging financial crisis was going to bring about the end of civilized society. 

She reportedly became 'obsessed' with guns and taught Adam how to shoot, but on Friday in a grim twist he blasted her to death while she laid in her own bed. 

The disclosure raises the prospect that Adam could have had the same apocalyptic views as his mother, and that she could have even encouraged them in him. 

The Mayan Apocalypse, which the ancient Mayan people thought would mark the end of the world, will supposedly take place on December 21, although it is not clear if Adam thought that was the case. 

In an interview the killer's aunt said Nancy Lanza was 'self-reliant' and indicated she was a 'prepper', or a person who prepares for Doomsday by learning essential survival skills - like how to shoot a gun. 

Speaking from her home near Chicago, Marsha Lanza, 57, said: 'She was stockpiling food. We talked about prepping a lot. She was getting ready for the economic collapse.

So where exactly does one get the idea that the economy is going to collapse, the world is going to become apocalyptic, and that the answer to survival is to stockpile weapons?

Much of that information comes courtesy of Fox News and Right Wing radio, which has stated emphatically that the reelection of President Obama would usher in the end of America as we know it and promoted the idea of safety as requiring possession of handguns and assault rifles.

Fox News is well known for trumpeting EVERY incident of a person defending their home or business by brandishing a gun, in order to reenforce the notion of handguns as a deterrence to crime, and of course the bread and butter of Right Wing radio is the constant relaying of Obama conspiracy theories.

However it is impossible to lay all of the blame on those fringe sources of information, since the National Geographic channel incredibly has a program dedicated to this, entitled Doomsday Preppers.

In case anybody wonders where the harm is in frightening people with a constant barrage of crazed conspiracy theories, well now we know.

I am going to tell you right now, that if we DON'T soon learn that Nancy Lanza was not a constant listener to Right Wing propaganda and Fox News it will because somebody is working to make damn sure that news does not get out.