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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.
Seriously video games and movies have been shown to decrease violent tendencies in young men because they are an outlet for youthful aggression.
I don't think you're inherently wrong, but "I keep hearing" is a tired refrain. How about, "There are peer-reviewed, replicated study results"? Violence in media, last I checked, has not shown a strong correlation with violence in society. Gun availability has shown a weak-to-moderate correlation. The FBI not taking obvious tips and especially blatant threats seriously would seem likely to have a strong correlation. As much as I'd like to see reasonable adjustments to gun policy, it's hard to argue the laws need revision when they aren't enforced now.
The US is gun crazy. You people practically worship guns. It's not the guns themselves that cause the violence, but the widespread positive attention to (actual, real world) guns does make gun violence a seemingly obvious potential "solution" to lots of problems. People in other countries watch violent movies and play all the same first person shooter games, but they by and large don't condone private real world gun ownership, especially not of guns which are meant to be used against people. People who practice shooting for sport are a small minority and watched with suspicion. The NRA is a decidedly American thing.
"well-regulated militia" has nothing to do with the government. Most CERTAINLY nothing to do with the Federal government. Perhaps local or at most State government.
It also only guarantees the right to bear and keep arms, not the right to do so anonymously. 18 USC 926(a) does give this anonymity from the federal government, but that is not a right guaranteed by the Constitution.
You missed out the part about being "part of a well-regulated militia".
It's funny how rarely people who espouse the 2nd amendment (not necessarily you) include that.
You missed the part where that doesn't matter.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
1: A well-regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free state.
This is a statement of fact. You can disagree, but it doesn't matter.
2: The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
This explicitly defines keeping and bearing arms to be a right reserved for the people.
Part 2 does not depend on part 1, or your opinion of it.
The US Constitution defines powers and duties the federal government has. Everything else is reserved for the states or the people. Some things are explicitly called out as being rights of the people so individual states can't fuck them over. A good starting point for you would be the Bill of Rights.
"well-regulated militia" has nothing to do with the government. Most CERTAINLY nothing to do with the Federal government. Perhaps local or at most State government.
Yeah, if the Federal Government was meant to regulate the militia, it'd not say:
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
In Article I, Section 8, Congress's specifically enumerated powers. Why the Founding Fathers CLEARLY WROTE THESE PARTICULAR CLAUSES with no idea what they meant, as they were nothing but doddering old fools who powdered their wigs and chewed with wooden teeth.
Elections have consequences..
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Yeah... Because other countries that have repealed gun laws in the last ten years lost all their other rights too- o wait you've been losing your rights since 2001, it's just guns you care about, NVM we have a nutter over here...