The NRA Convention: Why Gun Violence Has Nothing to Do With Guns

The real purpose of an NRA convention isn't to tell fun family stories of childhood abandonment. It's to explain why all the gun violence of the last year had nothing to do with guns. In the past, they blamed video games, rap music, and for a brief period in the 90s, the Rachel... it could be anything. And this year was no different. If you're blaming gun violence on weed, you're not even trying anymore. These people are just name-checking things they don't understand on the news. The American media. Genetically engineered cannabis. I'm a terrorist. Weed, really? When I get high, the only thing I want to massacre is a