What Violent Videos Are Doing to Us

The video starts out innocently enough.

It’s focused on a guy in a white T-shirt that reads “FREEDOM.” He’s sitting under a tent splashed with the words “American Comeback,” holding a microphone. Though the video angle is tight, you get the sense that he’s talking to a crowd.

There’s a single, piercing pop, and a whoosh.

Then blood, and chaos.

Almost in rea…