There is, in the wake of the Sandy Hook tragedy, a number of "family focused" groups who wish to ban violent movies, television, video games and music because they claim, their words, not mine, that childhood exposure to these things desensitizes kids to violence and thereby makes it easier for them to harm and kill others.
In the same breath, they then lash out against anti-gun lobbyists for making gun control laws so strict that kids can't be taught to respect them properly.
As an advocate of both free speech and gun control (not to be confused with the absolute abolishment of all guns ever in the whole world, so there, because there is a difference), I just feel the need to point out a wee bit of hypocrisy here.
Both of these things are problematic and both of them, as well as a whole truckload of other things, should be looked at, very, very closely, to see what role they're playing in what is an increasingly violent, and deadly, youth culture suffering from a startling decrease in empathy, inability to communicate effectively or read non-verbal social cues and, for the first time in history, be less educated than the generation before it.
We all know the problems, folks. Time to be honest about the reasons why and how we can go about fixing it.
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