Kentucky’s governor has already ruled out gun regulation to help solve the growing number of mass shootings in the U.S., instead focusing on Americans’ obsession with zombie TV shows.
Gov. Matt Bevin told listeners on a conservative radio talk show that new laws aren’t the solution to violence, but addressing a “culture of death” in media is the start.
“It starts with everything from the type of entertainment that we focus on,” Bevin said. “What’s the most popular topic that seems to be in every cable television network. Television shows are all about, what? Zombies! I don’t get it. That’s what we are.”
Bevin argued violent shows, like The Walking Dead, are morphing the minds of young, impressionable children.
“When a culture is surrounded by, inundated by, rewards things that celebrate death, whether it is zombies in television shows, the number of abortions … there’s a thousand justifications for why we do this,” Bevin said.
Back in June, Bevin blamed video games, psychotropic drugs and smartphones as the root causes for violence in America’s schools.
Bevin’s comments come a week after a mass shooting at the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, California, which left 13 people dead.
It was the 307th mass shooting in the United States this year alone, according to Gun Violence Archive.
Bevin, who has said he is running for re-election in 2019 but has not filed candidate paperwork or started fundraising, is polling poorly in Kentucky.
A poll from September found Bevin the fourth least popular governor in the United States, with only 25 percent approving the job he’s doing.