lou: in talking with doug endo ed and david ahead of the nra, one of the things that is being avoidede national liberal media by the left-wing politicians who are adamant about rolling back our second amendment rights, and that is that the recent mass shootings have a common denominator, mental illness. eastern states are focusing almost relentlessly on gun control and making political -- trying to make political points as they do so. new york, for example, wants to limit the size of magazines, to seven bullets, seven rounds. the current restriction of gen. maryland's governor was to force prospective donors to provide fingerprints to the state police and complete a gun safety course . and the vice-president wants a ban on semi-automatic weapons and expand background checks among other things. would any of these have prevented the newtown shooting? the answer is emphatically and imperiously not at all. he used a military-style ar-15 rifle that he stole from his mother. under maryland proposal we would have his mother's fingerprints on file, and she and everyone else would still be dea