Republicans Are Blaming the Uvalde School Shooting on Porn. Porn Stars Think They're Nuts

[JoeOtterbein]

Daily Beast

Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance, West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, and Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar all cast porn as the villain after Uvalde instead of talking gun control.

Aurora Snow
Updated Jun. 05, 2022 3:25AM ET / Published Jun. 05, 2022 1:52AM ET

The problems are real: lack of affordable housing, the debt-inducing cost of health care, inflation, underemployment. But these issues are all also complicated and honestly not something Republicans even pretend to have any plan to address. They are in the business of supplying villains, not solutions. And, mere days after a teenager armed with a legally purchased AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and large-capacity magazines entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and gunned down 19 students and two teachers, GOP lawmakers cast porn as the villain.

Now, what do school shootings and porn have in common? Absolutely nothing. But that didn’t stop Gov. Jim Justice (R-WV) from shifting the blame over to it (and, of course, video games).

“Let’s stop all the porn that our kids are absorbing every day,” he said before arguing against an assault weapons ban.

Sure, that makes sense as a safety plan: take young men who suddenly lose their masturbation material and give them guns. Feels pretty safe, right?

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[Ferrets are Cool]

1. "They are in the business of supplying villains, not solutions."

[Hugh_Lebowski]

2. I was allowed to look at my stepdad's Playboy's starting at like 10 years old

And have been looking at/watching smut my entire life since, very regularly (I know this will shock many of you to hear that about me ).

Also be playing video games since around the same time, tons and tons of very violent ones.

Funny tho ... also turns out the last time I fired a gun was also at 10 years old, a .22 at target practice at Boy Scout camp.

[Hugin]

5. It was the articles, right?

[Hugh_Lebowski]

6. I actually did read the articles pretty regularly

But that was not all I looked at

[Hugin]

7. Once I understood the equipment was pretty much the same...

I moved on to other interests.

Going back from time to time to look closely and make sure nothing had changed.

That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. It begs the question

then why are there so few shootings?

[walkingman]

4. Another example that GOP is a bunch of kooks. I'll be glad when the "Rapture"

comes and all these assholes are gone.