Bill O’Reilly calls Las Vegas shooting 'the price of freedom’
No stranger to controversy, conservative pundit Bill O’Reilly has called the mass shooting in Las Vegas “the price of freedom.”
In a blog posted to his website, the former FOX News anchor, who was fired last year after multiple accusations of sexual harassment, asserts that the second amendment means “violent nuts are allowed to roam free until they do damage, no matter how threatening they are.”
More than 500 people were injured and at least 59 are dead after the massacre at the Route 91 Harvest Country Music Festival in Las Vegas. The gunman, identified as 64-year old Stephen Paddock, was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot in a hotel room.
"Having covered scores of gun-related crimes over the years, I can tell you that government restrictions will not stop psychopaths from harming people," O'Reilly wrote. "They will find a way. Public safety demands logical gun laws but the issue is so polarizing and emotional that little will be accomplished as there is no common ground."
In February, Donald Trump’s administration overturned a gun regulation that prevented people with certain mental health conditions from purchasing firearms.
"The Second Amendment is clear that Americans have a right to arm themselves for protection," O'Reilly continued in his blog post. "Even the loons."
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