The National Rifle Association’s incoming president, Oliver North, is not wasting any time jumping into the gun-control debate. On Sunday, two days after a shooting at a Texas high school left 10 dead, the retired Marine made an appearance on “Fox News Sunday” to discuss the epidemic of school shootings.

“The problem that we’ve got is that we’re trying like the dickens to treat the symptom without treating the disease,” North said. “And the disease, in this case, isn’t the Second Amendment. The disease is youngsters who are steeped in a culture of violence.”

North continued: “Nearly all of these perpetrators are male, and they’re young teenagers in most cases, and they’ve come through a culture where violence is commonplace. All we need to do is turn on a TV, go to a movie.”

Or power up a video game.

North himself served as a pitchman for the type of first-person-shooter video game that’s become a benchmark of the very “culture of violence” the new NRA head is now deploring. In 2012, North participated in the marketing of “Call of Duty: Black Ops II,” the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 game developed by Treyarch and published by Activision.

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Another reflection-impaired, discredited human commands a mic...

Kyle Swenson, WaPo, earlier today