Here's everything the GOP has blamed (but guns) for the most recent horror. - MaddowBlog
Fox News host Tucker Carlson blamed the massacre on medication given to young people, bleak economic prospects, and women nagging young men.... Carlson’s colleague Laura Ingraham homed in on the real culprit: marijuana. “What can regular pot use trigger in young men in particular? Psychosis and other violent personality changes,” she said, blaming the media for “covering up the truth about the growing scourge of violent psychosis in our young people” created by weed.
Conservative media personality Mark Levin apparently preferred a broader and more traditional approach, “cultural decay, the decay of the civil society, the war on cops, the way that human life is viewed, whether it’s abortion, infanticide, whatever the issue.”, “The core of the problem is not the Second Amendment.”
It’s tiresome for a reason: We keep experiencing the same debate, as if we were watching a dispute unfold in “Groundhog Day.” The right keeps looking for ways to avoid blaming the preponderance of guns, while the left keeps explaining that blaming conservatives’ culprits doesn’t make sense. There are countries around the world where there’s access to marijuana, abortion, and video games, just as there are plenty of young people across the globe on anti-depressants. None of these countries is forced to deal with routine mass shootings — not because they have better societies or better people, but because those countries are not awash in deadly firearms.There won’t ever be a single factor that explains the psychology of every mass shooter. Some grew up in poverty while others didn’t.
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