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The Patriot Post Digest 7-21-2016
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FEATURED RIGHT ANALYSIS
Children and Cartoon Violence18
By Allyne Caan
When Wile E. Coyote debuted decades of road-runner targeted violence in the late 1940s, there was a national outcry that children would begin building copy-cat Acme contraptions to catapult boulders onto their unsuspecting neighbors. Even worse were Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam who used guns to target an innocent anthropomorphic rabbit, thereby modeling misbehavior with guns to children.
Ok, we kid. There wasn’t an outcry.
Back then, society still had something called a moral compass and children were, by and large, raised in two-parent families that generally taught them right from wrong and the difference between fantasy and reality. And kids therefore knew “Looney Toons” wasn’t reality.
How far we’ve come.
It’s not surprising that the latest attack on our constitutional right to bear arms is being pedaled as a “save the children” campaign.
Dr. Alan Delamater, the director of clinical psychology at the Mailman Center for Child Development at UHealth at the University of Miami Health System recently opined19, “Exposure to guns and violence is not good for optimal child development, nor is it good for public health. Research shows that repeated and excessive exposure to aggression and gun violence through movies, TV and video games increases the probability of children behaving aggressively toward others later.”
Sounds logical, right? Only, as The Truth About Guns founder Robert Farago writes19, “And yet tens of millions of American children grow-up to be law-abiding citizens. Gun owners, too! How in the world does that happen?”
Anti-gun activists will find any reason to blame guns (or, in this case, video games involving guns) for violence. But their thinking defies logic. As anyone of even mediocre intelligence knows, if you repeatedly conduct an experiment but consistently have different results, the variable — not the constant — is causing the change.
Guns, as we know, have been around and accessible for centuries. Guns aren’t the variable. And for decades, countless children have been exposed to video games yet have not grown up to be violent killers. Video games aren’t the variable, either.
Instead, we have to look beyond the video games and guns —a blasphemous thought for those who want to disarm Americans — and to the utter instability of the American family and the moral worldview now prevalent in our society.
More than 24 million children in America (33%) live in a home without their biological father, according to the National Center for Fathering20. Among black children, the percentage rises to more than half. In fact, economist Walter Williams writes21, “About 73 percent of black babies are born to unwed mothers. By the way, that percentage was 25 in 1963 and 11 in 1938.” During the post-war generation, when kids knew not to imitate Wile, Yosemite and Elmer at home, more than 87% of children grew up with two biological parents who were married to each other. But that was before the “Great Society22.”
Statistics show that children — specifically boys — without fathers are more likely to become involved in crime.
It’s hardly surprising. Children who grow up in fatherless homes23 understandably suffer from anger over being fatherless. Unless they are adequately taught to work through this anger, they can become violent. As Psychology Today reported24 a few years ago, 85% of youth in prison for crimes, including violent crimes, have an absent father.
Couple this fatherlessness, anger and violence with a rejection of traditional morality, and voila, we have the variable. (Hint: It’s still not guns or video games).
Today, 57% of American adults believe that knowing right from wrong is “a matter of personal experience,” according to a Barna study25. Among Millennials, an astounding 74% strongly or somewhat agree with the statement, “Whatever is right for your life or works best for you is the only truth you can know.”
What else do we expect kids to learn from Democrat-run education industrial complex26 schools that reject God-given truth?
Yet, in the face of this crisis, what are leftists doing? They’re teaching kids that homosexuality27 — which defies all laws of nature, breeds deadly illnesses, and carries significantly high suicide risks28 — is normal. The supposedly kid-friendly Nickelodeon, just introduced29 the network’s first same-sex married couple in a children’s cartoon.
In other words, “progressives” are advocating the further destruction of the family while indoctrinating children to accept a behavior that leads to disease and suicide.
And they’re worried about video games corrupting the youth?
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OPINION IN BRIEF
Victor Davis Hanson: “When President Obama entered office, he dreamed that his hope-and-change messaging and his references to his familial Islamic roots would win over the Muslim world. The soon-to-be Nobel Peace Prize laureate would make the U.S. liked in the Middle East. Then, terrorism would decrease. … Yet Obama’s outreach was … interpreted by Islamists as guilt and weakness to be exploited rather than magnanimity to be reciprocated. Terrorist attacks increased. Obama blamed them on a lack of gun control or generic 'violent extremism.’ … In truth, religious intolerance, gender apartheid, illiteracy, autocracy, statism, tribalism and religious fundamentalism all guarantee poverty, economic stagnation and scapegoating. While much of Asia and Latin America progressed through reform, the Middle East blame-gamed its miseries on affluent Western nations and on Israel. More disturbing, millions of Middle Easterners fled to the safety of Europe and the United States — but on occasion, only to resist assimilation and show ingratitude once they got there. In short, the dreamy Obama approach to terrorism has proved a nightmare — and it is not over yet.”
SHORT CUTS
For the record: “The truth is that … the GOP Congress … has achieved far more than the critics claim. Start with everything the GOP Congress has prevented. Universal pre-K, gun regulation, a $15 national minimum wage, an ObamaCare bailout for insurers, equal pay regulation, more disclosure of campaign donations, ‘free’ community college, a new ‘infrastructure bank,’ closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, among many others. President Obama proposed each of those, often more than once, but they vanished faster than Martin O'Malley’s presidential campaign thanks to the GOP Congress. But wait, didn’t Republicans promise and fail to repeal ObamaCare? That was never going to happen with Mr. Obama in the White House, but this year Congress did put a repeal on his desk.” —The Wall Street Journal
An omen? “I’m sorry to have to kinda be the buzzkill here so early on, but I think Trump is going to win. … It’s gonna be the Brexit strategy. The middle of England is Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio and Pennsylvania, and Mitt Romney lost by 64 electoral votes. The total electoral votes of those four states in the rust belt: 64. All he has to do is win those four states. … More people … in the Michigan primary voted Republican than Democrat… That should be a disturbing thing for everybody.” —leftist filmmaker Michael Moore
Alpha Jackass: “I don’t care how many children Pat Smith lost. I would like to beat her to death.” —GQ Magazine’s Bethlehem Shoals
For consideration: “The lines that most offended the crowd were [Ted] Cruz’s advice to ‘vote your conscience, vote for candidates up and down the ticket who you trust to defend our freedom and to be faithful to the Constitution.’ That they booed him for saying that is an indictment of them, not him.” —Ramesh Ponnuru
Observations: “I should note that if someone smeared my wife and accused my father of being complicit in murder of a president, I wouldn’t merely refuse to endorse that person, I would have a new favorite enemy. I’m sensitive like that. So I can imagine Cruz’s speech had something to do with this history. We’re human, after all.” —David Harsanyi
And last… “Hillary Clinton is the ultimate liberal Washington insider. If she were any more on the ‘inside,’ she’d be in prison.” —Scott Walker
Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis!
Managing Editor Nate Jackson
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