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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKevin McCarthey blames video games for weekend massacres
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told Fox News that video games are to blame, following the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton this weekend.
Said McCarthy: To have a game of shooting individuals and others, Ive always felt that is a problem for future generations and others.
https://politicalwire.com/2019/08/04/top-republican-blames-video-games-for-mass-shootings/
Coventina
(27,055 posts)Mass shootings are relatively rare, outside of the USA.
You sir, are an idiot.
SWBTATTReg
(22,065 posts)response?
dameatball
(7,393 posts)dawg day
(7,947 posts)Millions upon millions of avid videogame fans. 6-10 gun murders a year.
It's not about the games.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)Most people who commit murder have eaten tomatoes!
Tomatoes cause murder!
Vinca
(50,236 posts)It's never guns. NEVER. He's pretty much implying the 2 latest killers were just "misunderstood youth."
Penn Voter
(247 posts)The party of personal responsibility speaks again!
dsc
(52,151 posts)and has no issue with shootings
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Kevin "Smirk" McCarthy isn't the brightest.
delisen
(6,042 posts)Kevin McCarthy will next be telling us that America will be great again once we replace all video games with guns.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Gotta admit, I'm not much for the sort of games where the other characters both look like humans, and are actually controlled by them ... so I don't play much online Multi-Player Call of Duty or Battlefield-type games ... but I'm pretty confident that even if I did, it wouldn't make me want to shoot people IRL.
People who may already be sick shooter types probably ARE attracted to such games, but I don't buy that the games are 'the cause'.
emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)C_U_L8R
(44,986 posts)These gopski kkkowards will say anything to worm away from taking real action.
dalton99a
(81,391 posts)blm
(113,008 posts)like Trump, FOX, and majority of Republicans do every single day.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,564 posts)trev
(1,480 posts)They must really be desperate.
Initech
(100,034 posts)KentuckyWoman
(6,679 posts)I said the same down below, but like yours better.
crazytown
(7,277 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,729 posts)IggleDuer
(964 posts)My son (now a responsible adult) spent hours every day playing video baseball games and he sucked at real baseball.
obamanut2012
(26,046 posts)At the same time, whilst also playing D & D.
Initech
(100,034 posts)KentuckyWoman
(6,679 posts)Wow. I'm impressed. A Republican finally joined us in the 1990s.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)The Wielding Truth
(11,411 posts)Thekaspervote
(32,704 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)The reason is that school kids no longer say prayers at school..
oasis
(49,323 posts)bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)A picture of the famous antivideo game hearing.
Basic LA
(2,031 posts)... for Juvenile Delinquency in the 1950's. Had congressional hearings & everything.
RAB910
(3,487 posts)blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)ehrnst
(32,640 posts)Somehow, they don't also have the gun violence.