Not surprisingly, there was a lot of hypocrisy in King's piece noting "to claim that America’s 'culture of violence' is responsible for school shootings is tantamount to cigarette company executives declaring that environmental pollution is the chief cause of cancer."
“It took more than one slim novel to cause [these teenagers] to do what they did," King said.
As Slate noted, "He points out that the top 10 books and the top 10 movies in the country do very little to glorify gun violence, specifically, and also cites a slight dip in the sales of some gun-centric video games, concluding that 'Americans have very little interest in entertainment featuring gunplay.'"
Sunday, January 27, 2013
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