Friday, February 23, 2018

President Trump blames violent video games for school shootings

President Trump and many of his acolytes are trying to deflect the scrutiny of voters from "the gun issue" to violent video games and violent movies as the cause of school shootings. That bogeyman or evil spirit  has been around awhile. It was untrue at the start of the rumor and still is untrue.

It seems that President Trump does not want voters to know how much the NRA has donated to his campaign. (over 30 million) The NRA gets a lot of its funding from small arms manufactures. Many of his acolytes are deflecting voters for the same reason.

Starting at the fourth link, please read all the links. They explain all the issues on this bogeyman and why the myth hold nothing but air.

I watched news feeds and read information from the following links before blogging.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Donald_Trump

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy

https://www.usa.gov/branches-of-government

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogeyman

https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2018/02/22/trump-blames-violent-video-games-for-school-shootings-heres-why-hes-wrong/#746ed18c67f3

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/23/trump-video-games-mass-shootings-america

https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/25/health/video-games-and-violence/index.html

http://theconversation.com/its-time-to-end-the-debate-about-video-games-and-violence-91607

https://reason.com/blog/2018/02/22/trump-recycles-false-claim-that-video-ga

https://www.npr.org/2018/02/22/588038614/within-hours-of-an-nra-speech-trump-appears-to-read-from-largely-the-same-script
















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