You Can't Fix Stupid: How Politicians Deny Facts and Play With Snowflake's Emotions (To Hide Government Failure)

Sorry for the title-rant .. no matter how many times politicians lie, it just ain't so.

Try this fact:

".. only about 20 percent of school shooters play video games, compared with about 70 percent of high school students overall .."

.. or this fact:

“If media violence is a precursor to societal violence the introduction of violent video games in the United States would be expected to precipitate increased youth violence rates.” Yet as violent video game consumption has increased nearly eightfold since 1996, the violence rate among Americans ages 12–17 fell from 35 to 6 per 1,000 people.

How did social science go so wrong? Ideology. As one parses the research, it becomes apparent that well-intentioned liberal social science researchers engaged in inquiries they hoped would result in restrictions that would prevent school shootings, reduce the murder rate, usher in strict gun control, and, one suspects, elevate their fellow Americans’ lowbrow tastes in entertainment. They continue to decry the alleged deleterious effects of violent media even as U.S. violence rates continue their steep decline. The old guard actually cannot see how their experiments and studies are a massive exercise in confirmation bias...."

The old guard = Generation Trump .. who admits he does't e-mail (but Tweets?) .. and probably has never held a gaming controller in his life is ringing the alarm bell like the oldsters did in the 50s when Elvis brought in this new music that "caused" juvenile delinquency .. or that Blacks and Hispanics on pot would rape all the white women in the 1930s .. Reefer Madness!

The other reason for the up-tick in this blather of emotion is the common re-direct our government does through its puppet the media:

"... there is a persistent gesture to direct attention away from the failures of law enforcement, the social welfare state, and the school bureaucracy, all of whom were clearly aware of Cruz’s problematic and actionable behaviors. For liberals and Democrats, this typically takes the shape of demonizing the National Rifle Association and blaming it for resisting background checks even when existing procedures are not being followed. In the Florida shooting, conservatives and Republicans have uncharacteristically gone after a lawman, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel, but that’s only because Israel is a vocal supporter of gun control and has very publicly disowned any responsibility for his department’s failure..."

So while the government investigates itself over the next year or two, the public ('sheep' who have an attention span of under 1 minute) will forget that their "god" failed them again and will be happy to pay more taxes for them to do better next time.

Matthew 13:9 "He who has ears, let him hear.”