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Trump Meets With Video Game Industry, Watchdog Groups to Talk Gun Violence
President Donald Trump met with video game executives and watchdog groups on Thursday at the White House to talk about gun violence, one of a series of meetings planned by the White House in the wake of the Parkland, Fla., school shootings.
The meeting started with the showing of a series of particularly violent video clips, according to two participants who were there, Brent Bozell of the Media Research Center and Melissa Henson, program director of the Parents Television Council. Both are media watchdog groups.
[...] "This is not a simple thing," Bozell told Variety. "This is not to say that the video game industry is the alpha and omega of the problem, but they have to be part of the discussion."
[...] The White House released a statement afterward. "The conversation centered on whether violent video games, including games that graphically simulate killing, desensitize our community to violence." They also released the video that was shown.
The White House posted the video to YouTube. As of this submission, it's got 53 kilodislikes.
After industry meeting, Trump highlights alleged game violence effects
If game industry representatives hoped their meeting with President Trump today would help change his mind after recent statements of concern over violence in video games, they came away sorely disappointed. In a statement following that meeting, the White House said that President Trump "acknowledged some studies have indicated there is a correlation between video game violence and real violence."
"During today's meeting, the group spoke with the president about the effect that violent video games have on our youth, especially young males," the White House statement reads. "The conversation centered on whether violent video games, including games that graphically simulate killing, desensitize our community to violence. This meeting is part of ongoing discussions with local leaders and Congress on issues concerning school and public safety and protecting America's youth."
The White House statement goes against the overwhelming consensus of the research community, which has shown wide agreement that exposure to violent games in youth has little to no relationship with violent outcomes later in life.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by stretch611 on Wednesday March 14 2018, @02:01PM (1 child)
You said that I thought the NRA was a big evil organization funded sole by the military industrial complex.
My reply was to refute that and added lots of facts.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday March 14 2018, @02:42PM
Adding irrelevant or intentionally misleading facts is not a conversational benefit. Our founders, who owned fully military weapons and even warships, did not feel the need to in any way allow for the limiting of arms to civilians. If you want to change that, you need to amend the constitution; any lesser laws you pass would be unconstitutional if SCOTUS gave a damn about the constitution. Honestly, even gun-free zones should be unconstitutional. Read the ninth and tenth amendments again. They're summarily ignored nowadays but they explicitly state that any power not affirmatively granted to the government is not a power it legally has.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.