More Republicans Blame Video Games for Mass Shootings

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More Republicans Blame Video Games for Mass Shootings

April 29, 2023 at 5:39 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 6 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2023/04/29/more-republicans-blame-video-games-for-mass-shootings/

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Morning Consult: “The survey found that huge majorities of Americans blame recent mass shootings on mental health (85%) and on easy access to guns (75%), with smaller majorities also blaming violence in video games (61%), movies (53%) and music lyrics (51%).”

“Republicans, however, blamed video games (63%) more than they did easy access to guns (59%).”

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[jimfields33]

1. Lately the mass shooters haven't been white conservatives.

Wonder why they’ve been so quiet?

[tanyev]

2. Because nobody plays video games in countries without mass shootings.

and

[Beakybird]

3. So they don't play video games in Japan? Fucking idiots!

[sakabatou]

4. What is this? The 1990s?

[czarjak]

5. I remember warnings from earlier.

[emulatorloo]

6. My question exactly.

[Lovie777]

7. They been blaming video games for years................

nothing new. The key word "blame" something else beside themselves/guns.

[sakabatou]

11. Yup. I remember them blaming Doom and others.

[Javaman]

8. I play very violent games yet..

I don’t own a weapon of any kind and hate what those damn things have done to our society.

Bottom line is: mental health. You give easy access to weapons to a screwed up portion of society, can violence be far behind?

[AndyS]

9. If it were up to me . . .

[Lovie777]

10. They been blaming video games for years................

nothing new. The key word "blame" something else beside themselves/guns.

[Firestorm49]

12. Well, thank goodness there's no violence on TV.

[Mr.Bill]

13. So there's a video game where you shoot unarmed

kids because they knocked on your door? And 84 year old men play these games?

[albacore]

14. Countless studies show that video games can "dis-inhibit" kids from doing violent things...

That is, remove the inhibitions that have been built into most kids - and adults - that keep them from violence.

Having said that, if the kid can act out those dis-inhibited violent acts with a military-grade weapon, purchased easily, that makes a huge difference.

As others have mentioned, other countries have the same games, they just don't have the access to the heavy firepower that
Murikans do.