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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKevin McCarthey blames video games for weekend massacres
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told Fox News that video games are to blame, following the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton this weekend.
Said McCarthy: To have a game of shooting individuals and others, Ive always felt that is a problem for future generations and others.
https://politicalwire.com/2019/08/04/top-republican-blames-video-games-for-mass-shootings/
Coventina
(27,172 posts)Mass shootings are relatively rare, outside of the USA.
You sir, are an idiot.
SWBTATTReg
(22,171 posts)response?
dameatball
(7,400 posts)dawg day
(7,947 posts)Millions upon millions of avid videogame fans. 6-10 gun murders a year.
It's not about the games.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)Most people who commit murder have eaten tomatoes!
Tomatoes cause murder!
Vinca
(50,310 posts)It's never guns. NEVER. He's pretty much implying the 2 latest killers were just "misunderstood youth."
Penn Voter
(247 posts)The party of personal responsibility speaks again!
dsc
(52,166 posts)and has no issue with shootings
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Kevin "Smirk" McCarthy isn't the brightest.
delisen
(6,044 posts)Kevin McCarthy will next be telling us that America will be great again once we replace all video games with guns.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Gotta admit, I'm not much for the sort of games where the other characters both look like humans, and are actually controlled by them ... so I don't play much online Multi-Player Call of Duty or Battlefield-type games ... but I'm pretty confident that even if I did, it wouldn't make me want to shoot people IRL.
People who may already be sick shooter types probably ARE attracted to such games, but I don't buy that the games are 'the cause'.
emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,021 posts)These gopski kkkowards will say anything to worm away from taking real action.
dalton99a
(81,599 posts)blm
(113,098 posts)like Trump, FOX, and majority of Republicans do every single day.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,595 posts)trev
(1,480 posts)They must really be desperate.
Initech
(100,104 posts)KentuckyWoman
(6,695 posts)I said the same down below, but like yours better.
crazytown
(7,277 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,228 posts)IggleDuer
(964 posts)My son (now a responsible adult) spent hours every day playing video baseball games and he sucked at real baseball.
obamanut2012
(26,142 posts)At the same time, whilst also playing D & D.
Initech
(100,104 posts)KentuckyWoman
(6,695 posts)Wow. I'm impressed. A Republican finally joined us in the 1990s.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)Thekaspervote
(32,796 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)The reason is that school kids no longer say prayers at school..
oasis
(49,410 posts)bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)A picture of the famous antivideo game hearing.
Basic LA
(2,047 posts)... for Juvenile Delinquency in the 1950's. Had congressional hearings & everything.
RAB910
(3,511 posts)blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)ehrnst
(32,640 posts)Somehow, they don't also have the gun violence.