House minority leader trying to blame video games for mass shootings. Update: Walmart pulls violent video game ads for 2 weeks

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VAMatt said:

curl-6 said:

Similarly, I find laying the blame for these atrocities on "mental illness" just as stupid, for much the same reason.

There is plenty of mental illness in Japan, Australia, Canada, etc yet gun massacres are not epidemic in those countries.

Gun massacres are not epidemic in the US either, unless you have a really wide definition of massacre.  

Well, using the definition of 3 or more people shot (not including the perpetrator) in one incident, excluding organized crime, there's been 248 so far this year. (So in the last 220 days)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2019

You may not call that epidemic, as that's a descriptive and hence subjective term, but it certainly strikes me as an accurate description.

Granted, I'm not American, but if this was happening to my country I would consider it an extremely severe problem.

Last edited by curl-6 - on 08 August 2019