Keep the guns; instead, regulate all the things that might make American gun owners upset.
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.
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