There has been another mass shooting, which means the idiot jackasses of Fox News and the National Rifle Association, at least the ones not currently preoccupied shredding papers showing their connection to a now-indicted Russian spy and her state benefactors, need once again to come up with some explanation for why gun-riddled America keeps having these mass shootings despite such things being rare events indeed in every other not-currently-at-war nation.
Well, this time around both the shooter and victims were playing an electronic football simulation so it must be the blinky lights and loud noises that are making our citizens buy guns and murder people. Keep the guns, regulate video games!
STEVE HILTON: The top neuroscientists now can actually show that extended exposure to these video games, all the overstimulation that comes with the games, the loud noises and the colors and the bangs and all that, it literally rewires your brain and it makes it harder for children who are doing this to control their emotions. [...]
For things like overuse of smartphones and games, we can step in and say 'This is not supposed to be how kids should be raised,' and we can do something about it.
Curiously, video games are both available and obsessed-over worldwide, and the people of Japan, Europe, and other nations and regions do not seem to launch into American-style murder sprees. Perhaps Americans are genetically inferior. Perhaps Americans are simply more emotionally unstable than the citizens of all those other regions. Perhaps it is the ready and widespread access to weapons of mass murder tossed into the hands of any American with a sweaty wad of cash to spend and laws that permit them to carry those mass murder weapons with them at all times just in case they find themselves, on any given day, impulsively wanting to murder someone who has displeased them.
No. It must be "smartphones." It must be the Pokemons, and the Candy Crushings, and the Final Fantasies causing both Americans who have and Americans who haven't played video games to purchase and carry guns for the explicit purpose of murdering people, then murdering people.
It could not possibly have anything to do with our national policy of speedily giving even Americans already known to be unstable or violent access to murder weapons. It could not possibly be the fault of gun manufacturers advertising their weapons as efficient means of murder, or of the National Rifle Association, a domestic terrorism group forever warning that black people or brown people or Muslim people or liberal people are hiding in your mailbox at this very moment, willing to kill you and your entire family if you do not buy not just one gun, but two or five or ten, and keep them at the ready at all times, waiting for that one mysterious twitch that signals your enemies are, at long last, preparing to strike.
It must be "smartphones," says the news network and their idiot hosts and idiot analysts. It cannot be the guns, because we need the guns. If we are truly to have freedom in this nation, we need the guns, and must get rid of the games and the smartphones and the outdoor concerts and the disagreeable newspapers and the feminists who are being too feminist and all the other things that angry up the blood and make the easily enraged white American male want to go on a killing spree. The other countries have it wrong. The other countries don't understand that being able to hold a cold, heavy gun in your hands and dream about who you would murder and why you might do it is the only freedom worth having.