{"id":178487,"date":"2018-11-14T19:31:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T00:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/14\/do-they-actually-believe-this-sh\/"},"modified":"2018-11-14T19:31:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T00:31:00","slug":"do-they-actually-believe-this-sh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/14\/do-they-actually-believe-this-sh\/","title":{"rendered":"Do they Actually Believe this Sh%$?"},"content":{"rendered":"
I know that Kentucky Governor Matt Beven is no one’s poster child for a member of the reality based community, but claiming that zombie television shows are the root cause of mass shootings<\/a> is a bridge too far:<\/div>\n

Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin (R) has been forthright about what he believes are the root causes of mass shootings. A few months ago, he blamed<\/a> gun violence on children\u2019s access to smartphones, video games and psychotropic drugs. <\/p>\n

Most recently, he blamed society\u2019s obsession with a specific genre of violent entertainment. <\/p>\n

\u201cSeriously, what\u2019s the most important topic that seems to be in every cable television network for example? Television shows are all about what? Zombies,\u201d he said in an interview Tuesday with conservative Kentucky radio host Leland Conway<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Mass shootings point to deep cultural problems, Bevin said, particularly in a society that consumes daily doses of violence through the media. He acknowledged tying zombie shows to gun violence might be perceived as \u201ctrite and simplistic.\u201d But, he argued, American culture is \u201cinundated by the worst things that celebrate death,\u201d including the forms of entertainment young people consume. <\/p>\n

\u201cThese are drips, drips, drips on the stones of the psyches of young generations that are growing up in a society that increasingly said this is normal and okay,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd eventually, some of those young minds are not going to be able to handle it.\u201d <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m beginning to think that Matt Bevans is looking to take over Tom Cruise’s role as Les Grossman in Tropic Thunder II: Yokels in Yemen<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know that Kentucky Governor Matt Beven is no one’s poster child for a member of the reality based community, but claiming that zombie television shows are the root cause of mass shootings is a bridge too far: Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin (R) has been forthright about what he believes are the root causes of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[531,589,374,453],"class_list":["post-178487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-gun-laws","tag-insane","tag-politics","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}