Even the god emperor has picked up a favorite Republican canard by condemning violent video games and movies, claiming that they influence children to acts of mass slaughter.
Trump made the claims at a press briefing on February 22nd, stating that there needs to be better restrictions in place that prevent the precious children from getting their hands on evil video games and movies:
Florida congressman Brian Mast and Kentucky governor Matt Bevin joined in by saying that violent video games were responsible for the Florida school shooting, saying that violent games contribute to a “decline in mental health” of children and causes them to become belligerent (a common claim throughout the years that still has yet to find scientific support).
Due to the difficulties involved in censoring video games due to the pesky First Amendment, some have been suggesting that a tax be placed on them instead – Rhode Island’s Republican state representative Robert Nardolillo III has proposed just such a (10% sales) tax:
“There is evidence that children exposed to violent video games at a young age tend to act more aggressively than those who are not. This bill would give schools the additional resources needed to help students deal with that aggression in a positive way.”
A similar sales tax on the equally pesky Second Amendment rights somehow seems a non-starter.
Actual science seems to suggest most school shooters don’t even play violent video games on a frequent basis:
“Research done by the US Secret Service and our laboratories have both found that less than 20 percent of school shooters played violent video games with any amount of regularity. Not only is interest in violent video games rare among school shooters, these perpetrators express much less interest in this violent medium than most other individuals.”
In response to the shooting online, Google and Facebook are for some reason far more worried about desperately censoring the “abhorrent” term “crisis actor” from their platforms than about the unfolding bipartisan political circus – almost as if they were afraid of the masses finding something out.
Pretty sure humans have always been violent and they don’t have video games back then.
But then again they slowly evolved into civil beings but kept the violent side with almost a lot of people.
>Evolved
>Civil
I don’t think you know what those words mean.
Well said. youtube.com/watch?v=aJukS3HjYWY
wise man
Games and movies aren’t selling the damn guns to them. Thats like saying watching porn is causing AIDS and HIV….. Higher Age restriction? that could work, but what’s stopping an older individual from turning into another Las Vegas Shooter type…. who are you gonna blame next Trump? My mom?
The problem is not even guns it’s these mental health drugs they keep handing out like candy and the large consolidated schools where problems like bullying go unreported.
The Florida shooter had all the warning signs suffered a major loss in that both his parents recently died,did not fit in at a school,and was on SSRIs.
The school has over 3600 students so of course there will be discipline problems and behavior issues will go unnoticed.
Not sure if they ever will address them as the drug companies rake in billions on psychiatric drugs and cities bean counters like to show how much money they save that now can be spent on kick backs on how many schools they consolidated.
I think it’s a lot of things mixing together. Add the social disconnect of the internet into the mix. Armchair tough guys saying stuff to people under the cover of anonymity they’d never say to a persons face because they’d get punched out.
Science Fiction writer Isaac Asimov predicted this in 1957 in his novel “The Naked Sun” where on a particular planet people avoided personal interaction with each other as it was considered disgusting and could only interact with each other through holographic images.
Makes a lot of sense to me – by the way can you elaborate on what SSRIs are? I don’t think I’ve ever heard of that type of medication…
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. These artificially suppress serotonin levels in the brain, which are responsible for regulating mood. In individuals that already have issues producing this particular monoamine neurotransmitter, the potential exists for psychotic episodes.
Trump will likely try to ban SSRI’s before anything else.
Anti-depressants. Unless he was also going through counselling or getting other help, this is a sure sign of a bad doctor.
Comments on this website are not a place to learn about medication… why don’t you just Google it instead of asking someone to elaborate?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_serotonin_reuptake_inhibitor
“Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject. So you know you are getting the best possible information.” – Michael G. Scott
selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors if they are prescribed without proper supervision bad things can happen.
If you’re such a piece of s♥♥t that you need to take out your aggression on others, your parents are absolutely to blame for substituting legit child rearing with the vidya.
police were called over 30 times.
fbi were tipped twice with more than enough information.
4 deputies on the scene did not engage the threat, and instead listened to children dying.
the police department involved has been covering up crime stats to receive extra tax dollars.
the county is represented by DWS. The bitch that rigged the democrat election of bernie vs. hillary.
the sheriff is named scott ISRAEL.
your armed authorities waited. waited. waited so long that the threat walked out of the school and ordered fast food. THEN got caught.
really makes sense to disarm americans and give weapons only to authority.
So says the mighty liberal media, there’s no proof and CNN started paying those kids to lobby against guns and ask liberal questions at interviews
I was going to up vote this but than I read that last absurd line it’s like your brain shut off halfway through the post.
It would have been just as easy to just as many if not more with a truck see the Nice France attacks there was nothing nice about it’s it’s the name of the town.
Just trigger the fire alarm so you can get them out side.
Besides if you tried that kind of s♥♥t in the US the there will be a civil uprising and the people who came up with the idea will end up having their heads placed on a pike.
Lol, implying that they won’t kill each other with knives or even rocks if you take away the guns. You better off taking their arms instead if you want some kind of result.
Cars kill more people in intentional homicides than all firearms combined. There are approximately 268 millions cars in the US while at the same time there are 270 to 310 million firearms in the US by most estimates. This means if we are going to ban firearms for stuff like this then you might as well learn to ride a bike as well.
It is funny how those advocates for banning video games omit the fact that most school shooters were raised by single mothers. Maybe a fatherly figure could have helped, because mothers usualy have no fucking clue how to raise boys?
Or maybe the father was a shitty figure and the mother waited too long to leave him.
Actually both his mom and dad died and he was placed in a foster home.
A shitty father would raise a better boy then a good mom.
As someone who was raised by a good mother after leaving an abusive shitty father, I would disagree with this. Said shitty father caused a lot of harm, and I can’t see how you would think that anyone would threaten to throw their young son down the stairs of out of a window is actually going to raise a good boy.
@16:52
what fucking facts? least bring in some fucking evidence then and show us the fucking statistics to back it up.
You are missing the point, statistically most single mothers are terrible. You can argue about the reasons why, but facts are facts.
How so? It depends on the parenting itself, not the gender.
Too bad that so many of both genders are too fucking pigheaded to understand that because they’re too busy demonizing each other for being a man or a woman.
Or that they are caucasian males…
So? You want to ban white orphan boys or something?
Nothing can be done about people’s race or loss of parents. What can be done is restrict things like violent videogames… or wait, I know this sounds crazy but… how about restricting access to the guns?
White boys gotta do something. The good drug dealer and gang jobs are already taken by blacks.
Maybe blame your half-assed and unreasonably over priced educational system, fuckwits?
You sold guns freely to public and yet you questioned why people are shooting one another?