I cannot fathom the simple minded nature of this mentality. Do these people truly believe somebody as fucked up as to gun down several innocents wouldn't have inevitably done so anyway had they not been supposedly "triggered" to do so with video games? And why do other countries, which also have mostly the same access to the same shooters and violent games, not have nearly the same amount of gun violence?
The reason the US is out of control with gun violence is simple - it's mainly the relative ease of accessibility of assault weapons, in addition to (a less talked about factor), the ease of availability of mind-altering psychotropic drugs in this country. The combo of these two factors is a recipe for disaster. You've also got a growing number of disenfranchised young men growing up in abusive/broken homes being fucked up with no place to turn.
But no, Trump and the Republican puritans would point the finger at entertainment. This bs is merely a deflection of the real issues at hand. What a joke.
We just had to endure the "games are often sexist!" bs from the Authoritarian left, and now we've come full circle back to the Jack Thompson Authoritarian right blaming video games for violence. I guess this medium is an easy target for scapegoating since it's still a relatively new form of entertainment that's scary to older and more puritanical folks. It's like metal music..
"We hold these truths to be self-evident - all men and women created by the, go-you know.. you know the thing!" - Joe Biden
