I’m going to be brief.
It’s not the video games. The exact same games played here are played everywhere on the planet. No mass shootings. South Koreans per capita play way more video games than we do (and the same video games that we do), to an extent that is unhealthy in some ways. They don’t shoot up the place.
It’s not mental illness. The same mental illnesses are found across populations, across the entire planet. Mass shootings? American-only phenomenon. Look, ma, I found the exceptionalism!
This is something we’re somehow exceptional about. We have mass shootings. I wonder why that is? It is not a coincidence that mass shootings increased exponentially when the assault weapons ban ended, and it’s not a coincidence that we have a man as president who slept in a bed with Mein Kampf on the nightstand, and has an employee working in his administration whose attitudes and physical resemblance disturbingly look like Reinhard Heydrich. Put the two together? You get El Paso and Dayton and many other mass-shooting terrorist attacks.
I want you folks who demand mandatory mental health screenings (without defining what that’d even look like, you don’t fucking know now do you, you’re just saying words), and you folks who want video game rating systems (THEY EXIST ALREADY, SO PARENTS SHOULD USE THEM), because you folks exist on the Left, to think about that.