So sayeth Lamar Alexander, Republican Senator of Tennessee:

As The Jed Report at DailyKos notes, "To repeat, those words came from the lips of a United States Senator. A Republican United States Senator, to be precise. Supposedly, he's one of the brightest bulbs in the Senate Republican conference. The first President Bush thought he was so smart that he appointed him to be Secretary of Education for the entire nation."

And as Sherman Alexie—celebrated author—Tweeted, "Blaming video games for gun violence is like blaming Monopoly for insider trading and slum lords."