{"id":68974,"date":"2019-08-06T03:06:48","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T10:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/trump-and-republicans-continue-to-blame-video-games-for-their-failures-on-gun-control\/"},"modified":"2019-08-06T03:06:48","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T10:06:48","slug":"trump-and-republicans-continue-to-blame-video-games-for-their-failures-on-gun-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/trump-and-republicans-continue-to-blame-video-games-for-their-failures-on-gun-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump and Republicans continue to blame video games for their failures on gun control"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Following two mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, this past weekend, a familiar cycle is playing out: lawmakers and government officials offer thoughts and prayers, yet take no action to prevent future tragedies. Manifestos are dissected and distributed online. Fingers are pointed everywhere besides gun control \u2014 and, once again, the blame has landed on video games.<\/p>\n

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told Fox & Friends<\/em> that video games \u201cdehumanize individuals.\u201d<\/a> In a speech today<\/a>, President Trump pointed at video games specifically<\/a> as a root cause for mass shootings. \u201cWe must stop the glorification of violence in our society,\u201d he said. \u201cThis includes the gruesome and grisly video games that are now commonplace. It is too…<\/p>\n

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Following two mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, this past weekend, a familiar cycle is playing out: lawmakers and government officials offer thoughts and prayers, yet take no action to prevent future tragedies. Manifestos are dissected and distributed online. Fingers are pointed everywhere besides gun control \u2014 and, once again, the blame… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":68975,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t