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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He's right

[Anonymous Coward]

We need some moral balance in our american way of life. Guns are not the problem, we need more of them. They are an incredible tool to prevent crimes. But the problem are deranged mentaly unstable individuals. Psychology plays the biggest role in those crimes. We need America with strong traditionnal families, teaching great values, having the means to defend themselves, remove immorality from our homes.

More guns. Less morally bankrupt medias. Less SJW agenda being pushed to destroy the core of our values.

Re:Lazy cops and FBI

[smooth wombat]

Why don't we go back and find out why two different FBI field agents were told to stop their investigation of reports of people learning to fly jets but not take off or land.

Also, the 9/11 hijack leaders were in this country under their names, names which were on the "Do Not Enter" list but who also overstayed their visas.

Re:uh

[CanHasDIY]

There are violent movies and video games in other countries and they don't have the same issues with gun violence.

This. Trump, and others, are once again trying to blame gun violence on everything but guns.

Please explain to me how guns create gun violence. Specifically.

Or maybe accept that gun violence is prevalent in the US for the same reason knife violence is prevalent in China, or bomb violence is prevalent in Europe, and stop blaming the tool for what the person holding it does.

Re:Lazy cops and FBI

[drinkypoo]

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

Wrongful firearms homicides of children are a rounding error compared to automobile deaths of children. We don't need automobiles at all, we could have had a nationwide rail system if it weren't for the influence of the automobile industry. Guns do make people safer, from oppression. People who don't think that small arms can be used to resist the US military haven't paid any attention to Afghanistan. If you actually cared about the lives of children, there's a whole list of things which needlessly kill more of them which could be addressed. But you don't. You care about feeling like a moral person, and maybe about seeming like one as well.

If we really gave a shit about children, we'd institute more liquor controls, and more automobile controls before more gun controls. The police are murdering more people than mass shooters are. Take the guns away from the police, then we can talk about taking them away from ordinary citizens — who are 25% as likely to shoot the wrong person in an armed confrontation as the police are, and who are 25% as likely to be convicted of rape as a police officer.