After the horrific events at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine’s Day left 17 people dead, others seriously injured and countless terrified and in grief, it took only a single day for blame to be directed at video games for this act of real-life violence, despite no available evidence. The following week, President Trump also offered violent video games as a contributing factor in violent behavior. And then Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced on March 1 that President Trump plans to meet with representatives from the video game industry to discuss what they can do about real-life gun violence.
Although the dates, names and locations are different each time, we have seen this story of blame many times before. Video games were assigned partial blame by authorities after the 2016 Munich shooting, for example.
Source : nbcnews
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