Trump to meet with game industry members to discuss violent games

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At a press briefing today, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders announced Donald Trump will have a chat with game industry members next week regarding violent video games.

According to the announcement, Trump will meet with representatives of the game industry next week to discuss school safety and gun violence.

“The President has met with a number of stakeholders,” Sanders said in the briefing regarding gun violence. “Next week he’ll also be meeting with members of the video game industry to see what they can do on that front as well.

“This is going to be an ongoing process, and something we don’t expect to happen overnight.”




Last week, President Trump commented violent video games and movies had possible roles to play in school shootings. His comment was made the week after a mass shooting took place at a Parkland, Florida high school.

This won’t be the first time, nor the last we imagine, an elected official in a higher office has met with the game industry over what’s considered violent games. In 2013, Vice President Joe Biden met with game industry members after the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

Biden discussed violent video game research with members of the meeting. Video game representatives included the Entertainment Software Association’s president Michael Gallagher, former EA CEO John Riccitiello, the Entertainment Software Ratings Board, ZeniMax CEO Robert Altman, ex-Epic Games president Mike Capps, and representatives from Activision and Take-Two.

Earlier that year, former President Obama tasked the Center for Disease Control with studying the causes of violent behavior, and asked that Congress “fund research into the effects violent video games have on young minds.”

Many politicians over the years have pointed the finger at what’s deemed violent regarding video games. Even a certain blowhard who shall not be named, sent a mean letter to a certain game publisher’s mother over his company publishing violent games.

But, no peer-reviewed study has ever demonstrated a direct causative link between violent media and violent actions, according to UKIE boss Jo Twist. Many other studies have been conducted over years since, and more will be conducted in the future we imagine.

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WLRPosted:

Why blame video games why not blame everything else we see violent stuff on

GhostPosted:

Tom Probably nothing is going to happen, There is going to be politics and a handful of the citizens fighting against this were Donald Trump wont have a say in it for how negative the idea of banning violent games will be. Personally, this idea based around Video games being the cause of these shootings in schools and such is just mind blowingly stupid. I can't say what really is the problem with it but video games is far from it.


You can't mix politics with gaming, it's just plain stupid. Especially when it's being blamed for school shootings!

Soulcat Video games don't cause kids to go and shoot up schools, it's called poor parenting. The blame and attention needs to be aimed at the parents. Regardless of their history. Games are violent yes, I was playing 18 rated games at 10 I didn't deem it acceptable to go shoot a load of peeps. Why? I was brought up differently.


I don't believe that is true either, not all of the school shooters where disowned/angst towards from bad parenting. It's physiological/mental health issues stemmed from brain development.

If anyone's watched Jim Jefferys on gun control. It's 100% true.

junoPosted:

This really has to be a joke

lolohnoeszszPosted:

Soulcat Video games don't cause kids to go and shoot up schools, it's called poor parenting. The blame and attention needs to be aimed at the parents. Regardless of their history. Games are violent yes, I was playing 18 rated games at 10 I didn't deem it acceptable to go shoot a load of peeps. Why? I was brought up differently.


Not even poor parenting the people that shoot up schools are psychopaths and have mental issues. Like case in point would be the Columbine shooting iirc a lot of people picked on one the shooters. This combined with any other mental issues would probably bring someone to the breaking point. But no people playing video games because they wanna "keep guns" safe. Sometimes I hate our country it's a straight embarrassment sometimes..

THQPosted:

So instead of gun control measures for real life, the answer politicians think is to mess with virtual guns. The gaming industry is too large for them to put controls on it

NeeksRoyalPosted:

Not the issue he needs to sort out the right things!!

CheatAsylumPosted:

Video games don't cause kids to go and shoot up schools, it's called poor parenting. The blame and attention needs to be aimed at the parents. Regardless of their history. Games are violent yes, I was playing 18 rated games at 10 I didn't deem it acceptable to go shoot a load of peeps. Why? I was brought up differently.

TomPosted:

Probably nothing is going to happen, There is going to be politics and a handful of the citizens fighting against this were Donald Trump wont have a say in it for how negative the idea of banning violent games will be. Personally, this idea based around Video games being the cause of these shootings in schools and such is just mind blowingly stupid. I can't say what really is the problem with it but video games is far from it.

GhostPosted:

Ctag
Lost The whole idea behind blaming video games is ridiculous to me.


Agreed. I don't think video-games should be a main concern when we have mass shootings and all of that.


I think the fact they've got a president to discuss about violence is stupid enough as it is. Surely he's got more important things to talk about?

WW2Posted:

Oh heck no. DON BETTER BACK AWAY FROM THE GAMING SIDE OF THE WORLD. That's a side he will regret messing with. Look at Ajit Pai.


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