Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin (R) said on Tuesday that increased regulations are not the solution to mass shootings, adding that that America's obsession with zombie television are partly to blame.

In an interview with conservative radio talk show host Leland Conway, Bevin said that the "culture of death" in America makes mass shooting more likely.

“It starts with everything from the kind of entertainment that we focus on,” he 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. We celebrate death."

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“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," he continued. "Eventually some of those young minds are not going to be able to handle it, and this is what we're hearing."

Bevin's comments, which were first reported by The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Ky., come a week after 12 people were killed by a gunman at a Southern California bar. The suspected killer, identified as 28-year-old Ian David Long, is believed to have taken his own life.

Bevin, who blames culture for violence, filmed a video in October in which he shoots grenade launchers and throws smoke bombs to "blow up" up government regulations and corruption.

Bevin's office responded to The Hill's request for comment by pointing to past remarks where the governor attributed mass shootings to cultural changes.

In a Q&A at the American Enterprise Institute this past February, Bevin said that shootings are “part of a broader construct.”

“What has shifted… is not the percentage of guns in homes…What has changed is we as a culture, as a society, don’t value human life like we did,” he said.

—Updated at 3:20 p.m.