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Bevin 'Heartbroken', Blames Culture for Shootings

Bevin 'Heartbroken', Blames Culture for Shootings
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By West Kentucky Star Staff/The Associated Press
Feb. 15, 2018 | PADUCAH, KY
By West Kentucky Star Staff/The Associated Press Feb. 15, 2018 | 11:54 AM | PADUCAH, KY
Kentucky governor Matt Bevin says he’s heartbroken over a school shooting in Florida weeks after a similar shooting at a high school in his state.

Bevin said during an interview on the Greg Dunker Show on News Talk 94.3 FM that his heart is truly broken for the people of Florida and the community has been shattered in a similar way that Kentucky was in January. He said guns are not the reason for increase in school shootings, but blamed a culture that delegitimizes life through violent video games, TV shows and music lyrics.

Bevin called video games where people kill others “garbage” and said “it’s the same as pornography.” He said “freedom of speech” has been abused by allowing things that are “filthy and disgusting and have no redeemable value.”

"It's a cultural problem. We celebrate death. We're desensitized to it. And then our young people, with absolutely no inhibitions, just act out the very things that they listen to in music, watch in movies, watch in television shows and get extra points for in video games." Bevin said.
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