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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: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday March 14 2018, @07:14PM (4 children)
Here's an idea: enforce the fucking laws we already have on the books and close the goddamn loopholes. One schmuck having a bad day can go a to a gun show and...well, fill in the blanks.
How about this: regulate guns as strictly as abortion. Seems fair, right?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday March 14 2018, @07:52PM (3 children)
There's a literal order of magnitude difference between the number of gun deaths (all of them, including suicides) and abortions per year in the US. You reckon we should regulate abortion down to the point where the numbers are equal?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday March 14 2018, @08:00PM (1 child)
No, O Sultan of the Peoples' Republic of Dipfuckistan. I mean parental notice, waiting periods, and just for the hell of it, making potential gun owners run gauntlets of protesters calling them murderers.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday March 14 2018, @09:17PM
Ah, you want the regulations similar rather than the death toll. Roger.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 14 2018, @11:59PM
Fetuses are not life. Perhaps when they feel and have brainwaves (third trimester maybe). So in your world don’t count all abortions.
Freedom of religion and my religion says no souls exist. And it is my body. Not yours.
But you also probably like harming babies too with circumcision. Well the males. You at least wait to harm the females til the abortion choice.