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President Trump: 'We Have To Do Something' About Violent Video Games, Movies (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In a White House meeting held with lawmakers on the theme of school safety, President Donald Trump offered both a direct and vague call to action against violence in media by calling out video games and movies. "We have to do something about what [kids are] seeing and how they're seeing it," Trump said during the meeting. "And also video games. I'm hearing more and more people say the level of violence on video games is shaping more and more people's thoughts." Trump followed this statement by referencing "movies [that] come out that are so violent with the killing and everything else." He made a suggestion for keeping children from watching violent films: "Maybe they have to put a rating system for that." The MPAA's ratings board began adding specific disclaimers about sexual, drug, and violent content in all rated films in the year 2000, which can be found in small text in every MPAA rating box.
Know why Israel doesn't have mass murders like this?
It isn't because everyone likes them, and nobody is willing to die to kill them.
It's because 1/3rd of the population is armed, and the terrorists die often without killing someone. It happens almost every week, but you don't hear about it because the rag you call a news source doesn't want you to know that arming law-abiding citizens is proven to be the most effective tactic, even more so than 100% bans.
Arming responsible and trained volunteers who work at schools would be a wildly successful strategy.