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(57,460 posts) Thu Mar 1, 2018, 06:32 PM Mar 2018

Trump to Meet with Video Game Executives to Discuss Gun Violence

Source: Variety

HOME POLITICS NEWS MARCH 1, 2018 12:22PM PT

Trump to Meet with Video Game Executives to Discuss Gun Violence

By Ted Johnson @tedstew

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will meet with executives from the video game industry next week to talk about gun violence, the White House announced on Thursday.

Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said at the press briefing that the meeting will be in the context of issues of violence and school safety, and the executives will offer their input “to see what they can do on that front.”

While Trump indicated support for a series of gun measures on Wednesday in a meeting with Capitol Hill lawmakers, last week he also talked about the problem with violence in video games and movies, and suggested that the current rating system was not adequate.

A spokesman for the Entertainment Software Association, which represents video game makers, had no immediate comment. It’s unclear if the White House will seek a similar meeting with studio reps and the MPAA.

Read more: http://variety.com/2018/politics/news/trump-video-game-executives-gun-violence-1202714592/

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Trump to Meet with Video Game Executives to Discuss Gun Violence (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2018 OP

The Orange Clown is chasing another rabbit hole djacq Mar 2018 #1

Dotard the merciful, from out of the blue. ffr Mar 2018 #2

what about the violence that comes out of his mouth? KewlKat Mar 2018 #3

He will have his ass handed to him. BigRig Mar 2018 #4

djacq

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1. The Orange Clown is chasing another rabbit hole

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Mar 1, 2018, 08:46 PM

Mar 2018

Around the world, people have been connecting with each other playing video games like Call of Duty, Assassin’s Creed, Overwatch. and TitanFall. Games have been heavily rated, like the rest of the entertainment industry, for the past 20+ years.

Besides, there has been studies done since Columbine;

[link:https://www.rollingstone.com/glixel/features/video-games-school-shootings-w516863|

Another infringement on our constitutional right to freely view content of entertainment.