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.

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Re:Lazy cops and FBI

[PopeRatzo]

Oh, no, what actually happened was that he was a member of an NRA-sponsored competition shooting team prior to committing multiple felonies, since, prior to committing multiple felonies, there was no legal reason to deny him entry to the team.

That actually makes it sound even worse. The NRA is training high school kids to shoot rifles. One of their star trainees went out and massacred school kids. The NRA thinks the solution is to have more guns in schools.

I'm sorry, but the tired argument that more guns means people are safer isn't working any more.