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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...will-blame-gun-violence-on-video-games-and-tv
As Donald Trump convenes a meeting on Thursday to address violence in video games, in the wake of last month’s Florida school shooting, those in attendance will include a group that argues the Muppets drink too much, and another committed to exposing strident liberal bias on television.
The president’s round table at the White House will be the latest in a series of discussions on school safety after a gunman left 17 dead at Marjory Stoneman high school in Parkland on 14 February. And although representatives of the mainstream Entertainment Software Association and executives from other gaming parent companies are slated to attend, they will be seated across from a bevy of culture crusaders who have sought to tie mass shootings to violence in video games and movies – despite decades of research failing to produce such a link.
In attendance will be retired Lt Col Dave Grossman, the author of Assassination Generation: Video Games, Aggression, and the Psychology of Killing, a book that purports to “reveal how violent video games have ushered in a new era of mass homicide”. Grossman characterizes himself as an expert in “killogy”. Also present will be Melissa Henson, an advocate from the Parents Television Council, a group that has stood in staunch opposition to depictions of or allusions to sex and violence in entertainment. The PTC has previously attacked TV content such as Britney Spears and Rihanna performing suggestively at a music awards show and lobbied the airline industry to protect passengers as “a captive audience” forced to witness a “barrage of adult-oriented entertainment” in in-flight entertainment. And even the Muppets have not escaped the PTC’s wrath. In 2015, the group released a study claiming that children who watched The Muppets “were exposed to adult-themed content every three minutes and 38 seconds during the first four episodes”.
Meanwhile, Brent Bozell, the founder of the conservative Media Research Center, will also participate. Bozell is a longtime critic of the gaming industry, but at the same time a staunch opponent of gun control. “Somehow, Democrats isolate the inherent evil of a gun almost as if it’s self-shooting, while denying our violent media has any influence on these under-21 shooters,” he once said
As Donald Trump convenes a meeting on Thursday to address violence in video games, in the wake of last month’s Florida school shooting, those in attendance will include a group that argues the Muppets drink too much, and another committed to exposing strident liberal bias on television.
The president’s round table at the White House will be the latest in a series of discussions on school safety after a gunman left 17 dead at Marjory Stoneman high school in Parkland on 14 February. And although representatives of the mainstream Entertainment Software Association and executives from other gaming parent companies are slated to attend, they will be seated across from a bevy of culture crusaders who have sought to tie mass shootings to violence in video games and movies – despite decades of research failing to produce such a link.
In attendance will be retired Lt Col Dave Grossman, the author of Assassination Generation: Video Games, Aggression, and the Psychology of Killing, a book that purports to “reveal how violent video games have ushered in a new era of mass homicide”. Grossman characterizes himself as an expert in “killogy”. Also present will be Melissa Henson, an advocate from the Parents Television Council, a group that has stood in staunch opposition to depictions of or allusions to sex and violence in entertainment. The PTC has previously attacked TV content such as Britney Spears and Rihanna performing suggestively at a music awards show and lobbied the airline industry to protect passengers as “a captive audience” forced to witness a “barrage of adult-oriented entertainment” in in-flight entertainment. And even the Muppets have not escaped the PTC’s wrath. In 2015, the group released a study claiming that children who watched The Muppets “were exposed to adult-themed content every three minutes and 38 seconds during the first four episodes”.
Meanwhile, Brent Bozell, the founder of the conservative Media Research Center, will also participate. Bozell is a longtime critic of the gaming industry, but at the same time a staunch opponent of gun control. “Somehow, Democrats isolate the inherent evil of a gun almost as if it’s self-shooting, while denying our violent media has any influence on these under-21 shooters,” he once said
Translation: Anything but guns.
http://amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article204376559.html
Surrounded by parents of Parkland shooting victims, Gov. Rick Scott signed new gun restrictions Friday in response to the massacre that took 17 lives at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. “I called on the Legislature to give me a bill that will allow us to make our schools far safer, allowing for a much greater law enforcement presence and for hardening our school buildings,” Scott said. “This bill does that.”
Scott, a Republican who has long enjoyed the strong support of the National Rifle Association, approved a three-day waiting period for the purchase of all firearms and raising the age to buy a gun from 18 to 21 — changes the NRA sees as violating the rights of law-abiding gun owners.
Almost as soon as Scott signed the bill, the NRA filed a federal lawsuit to block the provision that raises the age to buy guns, arguing that it violates the Second Amendment.
Surrounded by parents of Parkland shooting victims, Gov. Rick Scott signed new gun restrictions Friday in response to the massacre that took 17 lives at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. “I called on the Legislature to give me a bill that will allow us to make our schools far safer, allowing for a much greater law enforcement presence and for hardening our school buildings,” Scott said. “This bill does that.”
Scott, a Republican who has long enjoyed the strong support of the National Rifle Association, approved a three-day waiting period for the purchase of all firearms and raising the age to buy a gun from 18 to 21 — changes the NRA sees as violating the rights of law-abiding gun owners.
Almost as soon as Scott signed the bill, the NRA filed a federal lawsuit to block the provision that raises the age to buy guns, arguing that it violates the Second Amendment.
Obviously from another stand-up citizen who's rights are being horrifically violated.
Great to see students around the country standing up and speaking out!
Anyone for cock-eyed logic?
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As is "your boy" David Hogg.
Being used.
Alas, that's what the left does.
Take care,
Bill
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Go get help while you're still able to. Name calling. The last vestige of the hard left progressive.
Ta la.
(and now on ignore since substance is not in this lads strong suit)
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