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Related: About this forumTexas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says 'video games' caused racist El Paso shooting: 'We've always had guns
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says video games caused racist El Paso shooting: Weve always had guns and evilTexas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick suggested on Sunday that video games had inspired a white nationalist mass shooter who killed 20 people in El Paso, Texas over the weekend.
Patrick began his interview on Fox News by sending thoughts and prayers to victims of a second mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio.
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick suggested on Sunday that video games had inspired a white nationalist mass shooter who killed 20 people in El Paso, Texas over the weekend.
Patrick began his interview on Fox News by sending thoughts and prayers to victims of a second mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio.
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/texas-lt-gov-dan-patrick-says-video-games-caused-racist-el-paso-shooting-weve-always-had-guns-and-evil/
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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says 'video games' caused racist El Paso shooting: 'We've always had guns (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
Aug 2019
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C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)1. Fox News is much more to blame. As is the NRA.
And everyone's seen Donald Trump fomenting violence, hate and fear. Video games are as much to blame as movies and tv. Nice try republicans but you can't shift the blame. The killings are your fault.
AllaN01Bear
(18,203 posts)2. other countries have the same video games we have , so why arnt there mass shootings over in those
countries .
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)3. Yes, it is
Comic books, TV shows, Movies, Dungeon and Dragons, Video Games, Prayer in Schools or whatever is the convenient scapegoat.......
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)4. Fucking idiot.
Paladin
(28,257 posts)5. Fuck you dead, Dan Patrick. (nt)
walkingman
(7,612 posts)6. Patrick, Abbott, Cruz, and Cornyn are all enablers. The NRA owns the GOP.
Javaman
(62,530 posts)7. he is probably the biggest piece of shit in texas government today.
he's such a loathsome life sucking societal leach.