The game plan for the Obama administration concerning gun control apparently relies on what will sell the fastest among the general public and what the administration can use to advance their progressive socialist political agenda. Remember what a prominent progressive liberal said in 2009 while serving as chief of staff for Mr. Obama, " never let a good crisis go to waste". The mass killings at Sandy Hook school was such a crisis for the progressive's to demagogue.
To actually have to figure out what is really causing these killers to go crazy would require a lot of work, and if passed experience of trying figure out how to stop the rampaging of shooters was a failure, why try now when it's so much easier to just attack your political opponent with deception and lies. And with the main stream media ready and willing to do the bidding of the progressive left in out government, what is the down side for the war on guns?
Little wonder then the Obama administration's war on gun owners has taken on a life of it's own. Attack the legitimate gun owner, blaming the gun its self as the problem and the second amendment right to keep and bear arms for self protection. That psychosis and our antiquated laws on mental health might be the problem never enters the conversation.
'Dialogue' Required for Violent Video Games
Brent Bozell
The Obama administration's assault on the Second Amendment in reaction to Newtown is not a serious solution. It's a Band-Aid on cancer. The NRA's call for armed guards in every school also misses the point. When is anyone going to get serious? The problem is violence, a violence of monstrous and horrific proportions that has infected America's popular culture.
The Hartford Courant reported on Sunday that during a search of Newtown grade-school killer Adam Lanza's home after the shootings, "police found thousands of dollars worth of graphically violent video games." Detectives are exploring whether Adam Lanza might have been emulating the shooting range or a video game scenario as he moved from room to room at Sandy Hook Elementary.
In California, 20-year-old Ali Syed went on a carjacking and shooting rampage, killing three before turning the gun on himself. Syed was a loner and a "gamer" who spent hours holed up in his room, Orange County authorities said. "He took one class at college, and he did not work, so that gives him most of the day and evening, and most of the time in his free time he was playing video games," reported county sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino.
After Newtown, President Obama and other officials insisted the country needed a "dialogue" about "gun violence," but there's been remarkably little exploration of the role of video games and even less of movie and TV violence.
Rep. Frank Wolf of Virginia requested a study from the National Science Foundation and was disappointed that Obama's State of the Union only focused on gun control. "While I recognize the potential constitutional issues involved in tackling media violence, mental health parity and gun control, I am disappointed that mental health issues and media violence were left out of the president's address," Wolf said.
The NSF report acknowledged that a link between violent media and real-world violence can be contentious, but explained, "Anders Breivik, who murdered 69 youth in Norway, claims he used the video game 'Modern Warfare 2' as a military simulator to help him practice shooting people. Similarly, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who murdered 13 fellow students in Colorado, claimed they used the violent video game 'Doom' to practice their shooting rampage."
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