President Trump met with video game industry representatives Thursday, after saying last month violent video games may play a role in mass shootings.
The president met with parents like Melissa Henson. "The kind of messages and images that they are putting in their minds, I think they're nightly dress rehearsals for huge acts of violence," she said.
But psychologist Patrick Markey's research shows 80 percent of mass shooters did not show an interest in violent video games.
"It seems like something that should make us safer so it's a totally understandable reaction," Markey said. "The problem is just the science, the data, does not back up that they actually have an effect."
Keep in mind that video games are popular all over the world, including first person shooters.
And yet the ONLY industrialized country that has to subject their children to school shooter drills, or seriously talks about arming teachers in the classroom, is America.
This is not a video game problem, this is a gun problem.
And until that is recognized and addressed with stringent gun control laws, this violence simply will not stop.
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