Current Events > Florida congressman was just on NPR blaming shooting on video games and movies.

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Sigh.

The reporter told him the students were calling for more gun control and he said "that's not the answer. We need to be looking at the biggest pushers of violence in America. Hollywood movies like John wick, and video games like call of duty which desensitize people to violence".

Fucking hell.

Delusion is a mother fucker.
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What is this, the 90s?
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Did I step back into the early 2000s or something? Is Jack Thompson gonna make an appearance?
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Metua posted...

What is this, the 90s?

Seriously.
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They got a point

Guns were even more available 40 years ago, but nobody went on mass shooting sprees like today?

What's changed?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P89CBU8E6jU

We changed.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Mast

This is him
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If what I read was true, it sounded like the dudes mother had just died and it was a major factor in him snapping.
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That hits a chord but
it doesnt deserve any more attention than tweets. Im confuzzled.

More video games in schools! The only answer!

John Wick made me do it!
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Fuck off. Video games aren't violent.
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I would have thought we'd be blaming social media by now tbqh

Yeah studies show that movies and video games are responsible for all violence. It's why we dropped the bomb. Also why the middle east is in constant chaos.
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The problem is largely cultural. Movies and video games aren't solely responsible for that, but they feed into it. The entertainment we consume both influences and is influenced by the culture we live in.

I'm not sure what that boils down to, but all our most popular fiction basically puts no value on human life
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Violent crimes have been dropping in every nation since the inception of Video Games.

Sure correlation isn't causation but if they were making everyone violent, shoudn't they be increasing?
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