Trump Plans to Blame Video Games for Gun Violence

[DonViejo]

Source: The Daily Beast




Industry officials feel like they’re being ambushed—set up to take the blame for the latest national tragedy.

LACHLAN MARKAY
ASAWIN SUEBSAENG

03.06.18 9:00 PM ET

President Donald Trump’s stated response to a mass shooting at a Florida high school last month was initially broad in scope. But in recent days, he and his aides have begun slimming down their ambitions, with a particular focus now on shifting more blame onto video games.

On Thursday, the White House is planning to meet with envoys of the video game industry to discuss how violent imagery on their platforms may desensitize young people to firearms—and even train them to be more effective killers. Industry sources tell The Daily Beast that they are worried the session will be an ambush—an effort to scapegoat them for shootings in schools.

The meeting comes after weeks of internal White House wavering on gun-related policy items, with the president endorsing a Democratic gun control wish list on live television, only to have the White House walk it back after Trump’s closed-door meeting with the National Rifle Association shortly thereafter.

Press secretary Sarah Sanders mentioned offhand at a press briefing last week that the president would be meeting with gaming industry representatives, signaling yet another shift in the internal policy discussion. But even that effort has been marked by disorder and internal confusion.

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[Crowman2009]

1. I bet all those gamergater Drumpf supporters feel like f***in' idiots right now.

[groundloop]

2. It's obvious the NRA finally brought 45* into compliance

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

5. Sounds like they sat him down for a come-to-Jesus talk during Thursday night's dinner.

They probably gave him 30 million reasons to see it their way.

[safeinOhio]

3. No video games in Japan....

as they don't have any AR-15 attacks in schools.

[ExciteBike66]

4. Trump probably thinks they only play

Hello Kitty Island Adventure....

[IronLionZion]

7. The rest of the world doesn't play video games

it's only the USA. Video games are also commonly played by 60 year old millionaires like the Las Vegas shooter.

[TranssexualKaren]

6. All im Gonna say is....

If you compare Detroit to Windsor Canada right across the bridge: they watch the same movies, watch the same TV, play the same games, read the same books and magazines and the Canadian equivalent has less than 1/5 the gun violence per capita.

[IronLionZion]

8. Canadians are not a murderous people

Michael Moore touched on this in Bowling for Columbine

[TranssexualKaren]

9. Yes, but my point is that the problem runs much deeper than video games.

[Initech]

10. Same shit, different day.

Anything to distract from their precious killing machines.

[SunSeeker]

11. Hey Shitler, very country has videogames, but only we have regular school shootings.

Every country has mentally ill people.

Every country has bullied youth.

But no country comes even close to owning 88 guns per 100 people like we do.

[Moostache]

12. The next time we have a mass killing featuring Blu Ray discs and controllers, he wins...

Until then, the remains the Loser in Chief and a national disgrace to the presidency, our government and to posterity (who will be 10X as chagrined as I am that Drumpf was ever commander in chief at all)...

Seriously...games do not CAUSE anything or allow people to become something that they are not already in the first place. I have been an avid gamer my entire life, going all the way back to "Asteroids" and "Combat" and "Pong". I have played the very games that these jackasses would cite as causes of these mass shootings and I can attest that in no way shape or form did these games EVER ONCE make me want to grab my (fictional) AR-15 and head to the local school to start shooting real people for kicks...

A deranged person with a brick, stick or knife may still harm others, quite possibly more than one; BUT they won't be able to kill DOZENS in SECONDS.

The CAUSE of the carnage are high velocity rounds fired from military-style assault weapons, period. Hunting rifles and shotguns are deadly, but they are not instruments of mass destruction on human targets in the way an AR-15 or similar gun is...PERIOD.

I HATE the fact that we pretend in this country that assholes, lying out of both sides of their mouths are worthy of respect and hold valid opinions...they are NOT and do NOT and NEVER will.