While there are some legal moves in the United States to avoid causing violence due to violent video games, Donald Trump, the president of the USA, is still chasing the games with a fork…

A few days ago, we already wrote about how Trump would like to implement an age rating system (ESRB and MPAA say hi), and there was also news about how a senator would introduce a 10% tax on violent games. On Twitter, Peter Alexander, correspondent of NBC News, wrote the following: „President Trump to meet with video game industry executives next week as part of the ongoing debate over school safety.” (Which was triggered by the Parkland shooting.)

Chicago Tribune reports that a judge ordered a sixteen-year-old Illinois teenager to be banned from accessing violent video games after he threatened to perform a school shooting in Roselle Lake High School, which he attends. He uploaded a photo on Snapchat while playing a violent video game (just WHAT game was that? we have no idea…) with the comment „Y’all need to shut up about school shootings, or I’ll do one.”

His defense said it was just a joke, although in a poor taste. After searching his family’s home, police found no weapons. Robert Anderson, the judge, ordered the teenager to hand his phone to his parents, be put in indefinite home detention, as well as to be banned from playing violent video games. „You can play all the Mario Kart you want,“ he told the youth.

However, what’s the point? He could buy Doom on PlayStation Network digitally and delete it whenever he is close to being found playing a violent game. We have rarely seen such a court case.

Source: Twitter, GamesIndustry