Aim in Mind

Analyzing the Washington Navy Yard Shooting
Aaron Alexis, the 34-year-old suspect killed in the U.S.Navy Yard shooting spree, had at least two earlier brushes with the law involving guns that led to the end of his four-year Navy career in 2011. (WSJ, 9/16/2013)

Undoubtedly, the Legitimate Media will focus on the weapons used by Alexis to kill a dozen people. If only he did not have an assault rifle they will lament. If only Congress would limit the size of the gun magazine. As RedStateVT has reported repeatedly when these horrible events happen, this thinking is Liberal nonsense. The real culprit, yet again, is the culture of violence and, yet again, a contributing factor is violent video games:

There, he played computer games “at the nighttime and all day,” Ms. Wilton said, on one of three computers he kept in his room, driving up the house’s electricity bills. (NYT, 9/16/2013)

When will the country wake up?

Think that we are crazy? Well permit RedStateVT to share with you excerpts from the New York Times review (9/16/2013) of the new video game called Grand Theft Auto V:

Grand Theft Auto V is still an action game about hoodlums and thieves; we start with an extended bout of cop killing and proceed to a series of increasingly ambitious heists...Trevor, an oddly lovable psychopathic meth dealer and gun runner...Another of the political provocations is a gruesome and unpleasant torture sequence — conducted by the player — that casts waterboarding and other violent methods as games played for the entertainment of the interrogator.

Where to begin? Cop killing...psychopathic meth dealer...torture. How uplifting. Thankfully we get the following disclaimer:

Sure, the new installment, to be released on Tuesday, contains plenty that might offend those who enjoy taking offense, and it is still disturbing to see parents giving these games to preteenage children. (NYT, 9/16/2013)

Disturbing indeed.

Sadly, Alexis is but the latest in the recent lineage of mass murderers who have been linked to video violence.