Video games, violence and mass shootings have a long, complicated history
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Over the years, politicians and gun rights advocates have blamed violent games for real-life violence. But is it true?
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I played plenty of games over the years without ever feeling motivated to take up a gun and shoot up a local school, space station or nordic kingdom. So I'm fairly skeptical that video games can be said to cause mass shootings.
CNN is hosting a gun control town hall following mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, over the weekend. The network announced in a tweet on Monday that Prime Time host Chris Cuomo will...
On Saturday and early Sunday shooters in El Paso and Dayton murdered 29 people in two attacks on innocent Americans. On Sunday Democrat Party “Squad” leader AOC jumped on Twitter and blamed racist Trump voters for the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio.