Back during the Christmas shopping season I was at the Wal-Mart Super store over in Martinsville, trying to weave my way from one side of the store to the other, from the automotive center where I had been checking out tire prices to the food section to pick up something for dinner (a modern-day marvel, those superstores). I had gone about half a mile when I passed through the sporting goods department. They had a TV hooked up to a VCR and they were showing a demo tape on deer hunting. A child had gotten away from his mother and was standing there, fascinated by the video. Fortunately his mother found him before the killing took place, and she rushed this innocent child away with the words, "Come on, Billy. We don’t want to watch this. Let’s go to McDonald’s and have a hamburger."
As they…