Blame Hollywood, Not Firearms Manufacturers, for Gun Violence

By Selwyn Duke

Question: If we’re going to assign indirect blame, who is more responsible for a kid who kills somebody drag racing? The company that made the car?

Or a person who legitimized and glamorized street drag racing in the kid’s eyes?

While many leftists want firearms manufacturers sued into oblivion, a similar question to the above is increasingly being asked regarding youths committing violence with guns, as was the case in Uvalde, Texas. Last month, liberal comedian-cum-commentator Bill Maher editorialized against, as he put it, Hollywood’s “unbridled romanticization of gun violence.” Now Tim Winter, president of the Parents Television and Media Council (PTC), has weighed in, noting that Hollywood “has been allowed to depict gun violence for too long, glamorizing it for countless viewers, particularly teenagers and children.”

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