Let's not talk about the fact that the gun he stole from his mother was illegal for years, but could be bought again after a certain weapons ban was allowed to lapse in 2004.
Let's not talk about whether we know for a fact that he was into violent video games or entertainment at all.
Let's not talk about any of that, because it's not really important. Let's talk, instead, about changing our media culture, because it's sick and nasty and icky and weird, and the only people who really like it are easily marginalized and ignored.
And, most importantly, because there just is no equivalent to the National Rifle Association anywhere to be found in the entertainment industry.
Hopefully this bait and switch will be seen for what it is, and clearer arguments will finally prevail. But America has never had a shortage of well-paid flim-flam artists, willing to sell us panaceas for diseases we don't have, the better to keep us from asking why we got cancer from working in the mine.
Whether we suck down useless cough syrup until the next shooting, for go in for some long-overdue chemo, is up to us. Sadly, I fear that the makers of all-purpose icky-tasting medicine will be driving new Camaros, any day now.
Let's not talk about whether we know for a fact that he was into violent video games or entertainment at all.
Let's not talk about any of that, because it's not really important. Let's talk, instead, about changing our media culture, because it's sick and nasty and icky and weird, and the only people who really like it are easily marginalized and ignored.
And, most importantly, because there just is no equivalent to the National Rifle Association anywhere to be found in the entertainment industry.
Whether we suck down useless cough syrup until the next shooting, for go in for some long-overdue chemo, is up to us. Sadly, I fear that the makers of all-purpose icky-tasting medicine will be driving new Camaros, any day now.
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