“The timeless truism is that the people most insistent on controlling us continually prove to be incapable or unwilling to control themselves.”
Mary Jo Buttafuoco is in the news again. Almost 34 years after being shot in the face with an illegally possessed and carried .25 caliber handgun by “Long Island Lolita” Amy Fisher, a teenage mistress of her cheating husband, the story has been resurrected, and no doubt brought to the attention of a new audience, with the January release of a biopic on Lifetime.
The point here is not to repeat a story we can find elsewhere, nor to heap judgment on Fisher, who went on after her prison sentence to exploit her notoriety in the “adult” film industry. Still, her mindset is relevant to understanding the anti-gun political advocacy she went on to promote.
“What I’ve learned over the years is that Amy Fisher is a narcissist — and narcissists don’t change,” Buttafuoco told Fox News Digital. “It’s always been about her. She doesn’t care one iota about what she’s done. It’s also inexcusable for any adult man to take advantage of a teenager. In that sense, she was a victim, but it doesn’t excuse what she did afterward.”
By David Codrea
