By banning ads for violent games while still selling guns, Walmart is reinforcing the diversionary distraction tactics that the gun lobby has long used to confuse the gun control debate.
game at some point in his life. Sure, Walmart will keep selling guns—the things that actually kill people, and that murderous racists like the shooter in El Paso buy specificallykill people—but at least now nobody innocently looking for always low prices will be enticed to murder by the sight of a cardboard Master Chief standee.
The Walmart situation offers such a stark and unambiguous window into the witless hypocrisy and scapegoatism that fuels this “blame anything but the guns” school of gun violence debate.
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