For the gun lobby, social media is the new video games

Great example of how the gun lobby and their Republican frontmen alter and misdirect the conversation about gun violence, especially when it comes to children.  Here one of the smartest and most insightful leaders on the Internet spends time and energy defending social media as a motivator for teen suicide since 2008, when there is extensive public health data that shows that the increase in teen suicides is directly connected to a massive increase in guns in homes, which is why guns are now the leading cause of death for children: availability, efficiency. For the gun lobby, social media is the new video games, and a strategy of deflection always wins for them.

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