So it's come to this. The FCC is proposing to limit the violence on television. You have the free speech criers up in arms about it and the stupid argument "if you don't like it, turn it off."Reality, people! So maybe you'll turn your television off so your kids can't watch. The bad parent, who is becoming increasingly common these days, doesn't give a crap what his kid watches. Studies since the 50s have shown that what children see on television affects them mentally. Next thing you know, you've got a Cho or a Columbine or something like that.
If everyone would do what was best, there'd be no need for government. Unfortunately, stupid people populate this planet, so government is necessary. The college shootings, high school shootings, coworker shootings, guys shooting kids because they threw eggs at their cars, fingers getting hacked off by machetes, gangs, urban warfare, drivebys...this country has the highest murder rate in the world. Why is that, people, why is that?
In the past, I'd been horrified after seeing a story like this, but after events in the last few years, promoting the general welfare and ensuring domestic tranquility are in order. The original Constitution of the United States said, "We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." United, people. Not individual. We have to share this country, and since you can't control your freaking kids, we have to regulate television.
People DON'T turn it off. That's why this is necessary. What good is free speech if you are lying in a grave somewhere? Wake up.
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