Is Gary Huber mentally deficient?

 

Gary Huber says that he has noticed that people argue about violent video games creating killers, but there seems to be a lack of a corresponding argument regarding hunters. He wonders if hunting, "the art of tracking and killing an animal with a gun," also desensitizes people to violence.

 

I wonder if Gary is a little mentally deficient or maybe just a little morally deficient. Does he not see that there is a difference between killing human beings for sport and hunting game to stock freezers and feed people and support wildlife conservation?

 

By the way, of all the mass shootings in recent years, several of the perpetrators were big video game players, but I haven't heard that any of them were hunters. If you know differently, please post and let me know. That being said, I don't believe playing violent video games will make a normal person go out and shoot real people. Their time could probably be spent much more productively, but I don't think the games will make a person do something he was not inclined to do in the first place. Maybe the correlation is not that the video games cause the crimes, but that the people who have the psycho gene or the mean gene or whatever it is to commit the crimes are drawn to the video games. Ah -- now there's a thought -- maybe we should make people go through a universal background check before they are allowed to buy Play Stations and/or violent video games!

 

"Hunting creates killers." The Dallas Morning News; January 13, 2013; p. 3P.