
Sadly, there are plenty of morons here on the left who agree with him.
Via Daily Beast:
A school shooting in north Moscow had politicians quickly blaming American culture as a corrupting influence on Russian youth.
Shortly before noon yesterday, a disturbed young man forced his way into his local high school at rifle point, intent upon finding a teacher who supposedly had refused to give him a high grade. He forced his way past the security guard at the front door, but not before the unarmed guard was able to sound an alarm alerting the police. He found his teacher, a well-liked geography instructor, in class with around 20 students. He walked up to his teacher and shot him in the chest, and, according to some reports, shot his the man again in the head to make sure he was dead. While holding the remaining students hostage, he shot two responding police officers, killing one and wounding the other. Luckily, no other students or faculty were harmed. […]
It didn’t take long for the accusations and political vitriol to start flowing. Alexei Pushkov, the chairman of Russia’s Duma Foreign Affairs Committee, tweeted, “Moscow school shooting: American movies and domestic serials, full of violence, are producing results—now it is like the USA here. Is this what we wanted?” This is the very same Pushkov that mocked “American Exceptionalism” in the wake of the U.S. Naval Yard shootings. Meanwhile, Putin took a slightly different tack, lamenting the lack of cultural education of Russia’s youth. “The new generation … needs to be raised with good artistic taste and the ability to understand and value the theatrical, dramatic and musical arts,” he stated. “And if this was done as it should be in our country, maybe there would not be tragedies like the tragedy in Moscow today.”
