Writer tells nation to stop using games/guns as scapegoats for violent times

After each tragedy, it’s the same thing. Liberals want us to wonder why gun laws let anyone access deadly weapons. Conservatives insist we question why video games supposedly turn down-to-earth kids into murderers. These queries satiate two desires. In a country that ascribes hubristic “exceptionalism” to itself and berates self-analysis as “hating America,” we seek absolution via scapegoat, and so we upbraid boogeymen like firearms and Xboxes. - Salon’s David Sirota

It’s sad to know that there are intelligent people out there like this, but there are so many more that are too afraid to look to the truth in order to move past blaming inanimate objects.

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