![]() ![]() Violent video games don’t turn people into mass murderers anymore than blood and gore movies do, otherwise the only seven people on earth who’d not be murderers are in an isolated biosphere somewhere-and it’s probably them you have to worry about most. I’ve never much believed in most of what poses as cause and effect reasoning. ![]() But let’s not be cowards or sophists in Kellyanne Conway’s pay about it. The temptation is to make all sorts of equivalencies and equivocations. Trump’s detractors will say yes, of course he’s responsible even though they seemed perfectly OK with the message Hillary Clinton sent women and girls-not to mention the blame-the-victim message she sent predators-when she vilified her husband’s rather justified accusers. His supporters say no, of course not-the same supporters who spent the eight Obama years accusing that Muslim terrorist of being divisive just because, say, he did not applaud cops every time they gunned down an unarmed black man. So it’s all about Donald Trump’s responsibility: is he or is he not responsible for what this latest of esteemed Floridian Cesar Sayoc did, sending pipe bombs to all of Trump’s topmost targets of hate. ![]()
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