After the El Paso and Dayton shootings, Republicans attack video games

General news News 08/05/2019

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Like an old story. The killings in El Paso and Dayton that plunged America into the first weekend of August gave rise to numerous analyzes.

If faced with the shooting in Texas whose motivations of the shooter were racist, the Democrats fired Donald Trump for having maintained a xenophobic climate, several Republicans attacked the video games.

It was Kevin McCarthy, the leader of the Republican representatives in the House who first launched hostilities while he was interviewed on Fox News this Sunday morning. In particular, he drew a parallel between shooters’ mode of operation and video games. “The idea that these video games dehumanize individuals and aim to shoot individuals: I always felt that it was a problem for future generations and for others. We have seen studies show what it does to people, and when you look at pictures of how it happened, you can see that too in video games and the like, “he said.

Other Republicans have registered in his wake, including Texas Deputy Governor Dan Patrick. “How long are we going to ignore the gaming industry at the federal level? I see a video game industry teaching young people to kill, “he told Fox News, adding that the” video game “was the” common denominator “of shootings.

Source: USA Today

GOP House minority leader Kevin McCarthy is on Fox News blaming fucking video games for Dayton and El Paso#WhiteSupremacistTerrorism #WhiteNationalistTerrorism pic.twitter.com/CKJq8oUSex

— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) 2019. augusztus 4.

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