Shade of idiot Jack Thompson with brain worm here.
If I don’t pass that ant zone on silksong I’m going to shoot something.
RFK Jr. Blames violent video games for Mass Shootings.
Submitted 8 months ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 8 months ago
normalexit@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Jfc, this again?
hopesdead@startrek.website 8 months ago
Is the shooter a person of color? Seriously, ask yourself that. Likely that is the citing factor for someone coming up with fucking bullshit like this. When the shooter is white, the defenders of gun rights will point to mental health. The point I am making is that POC will be a used as a scapegoat to upturn causes in society for their actions while a white person is largely upheld by gun rights advocates as a sign of failure to address mental health.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
To be fair, a lot of POC gun violence is gang related, not mental health related, because POC tend to be stuck in poorer areas and resort to gangs to make ends meet. There is certainly white gang violence as well, but there’s also a lot of mental health related crimes that happen to be committed by white people, probably because they have more ready access to guns that the average non-gang affiliated POC.
Games are unrelated to both cases.
Ch3rry314@piefed.social 8 months ago
Is this real?
BlackLaZoR@fedia.io 8 months ago
I blame faulty condoms for RFK Jr
tal@lemmy.today 8 months ago
Jack Thompson
For those who don’t remember this guy, he was pretty obnoxious.
ChimpChamp22@reddthat.com 8 months ago
HubertManne@piefed.social 8 months ago
If its a stupid idea. RFK jr. has had it.
ALLGLORYTOHYPNOTOAD@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Only someone completely disconnected from the rest of the world could take this argument seriously. Every country on the planet has access to violent video game, but somehow we have the most gun violence outside of a war zone in the world. But clearly it’s the video games. 🤦♂️
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
we have the most gun violence
If we look at “intentional homicide rate” (choice of weapon agnostic), the US is 66th and just above Greenland. I think this statistic is better than “gun deaths” since it excludes suicides and accidental deaths and looks at intentional murder.
The number is way higher than it should be, but probably way better than most assume given the news.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
why should we exclude suicides and accidents?
ALLGLORYTOHYPNOTOAD@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Fair enough, but still this is a bull shit argument.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s straight disinformation. Nevermind that everyone else plays the same games, let’s cherry pick the one western nation that has a comparable number of guns per capita and not think about that any further.
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 8 months ago
the single biggest reason for American hegemony is Grenada was pacman
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
this is so obviously false it’s enfuriating coming from the head of HHS. Lots of coutnries all over the world have the same violent video games we do without the mass shootings.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 8 months ago
remember, that his bear cub incident was only 10-11years prior too.
mohab@piefed.social 8 months ago
train of thought
bobby
You got yourself in a cul-de-sac there. The worm ate the train long ago 😂
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 8 months ago
God damnit Bobby…
slazer2au@lemmy.world 8 months ago
A polly who doesn’t know what they are talking about. nothing new here.
themurphy@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Poor innocent guns being used for evil, good thing someone stands up for them. :')
krimson@lemmy.world 8 months ago
[deleted]Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Who do you think they’ll run in 2028?
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Because they control the country and people should know what they are doing. It’s not that complicated.
Ulrich@feddit.org 8 months ago
Same reason any other politician is on the news. Because unfortunately they dictate our collective plight as Americans.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 8 months ago
It's called the 'Gish Gallop.'
The best way for the Right to defeat the Left in an argument is to unload a torrent of lies, half truths, complete nonsense, and other disinformation. The idea is to overwhelm the other side's ability to form a coherent response, because there's too much to unpack.
Trump knows Kennedy is an idiot, but he's a useful idiot in that he forces the Left to deal with him.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 8 months ago
fun fact its created by the russian, its also called the FIREHOSE OF FALSEHOOD.
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Because Brain Worm Jr is Trumps gift to the world.
purplerabbit@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
It's because we have Trump to deal with that we have him to deal with.
mienshao@lemmy.world 8 months ago
[deleted]mienshao@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Who the fuck is downvoting this comment? Genuinely why? Is this some pro-trump instance or something? Like wtf I don’t understand what I said wrong…
Wolfram@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Are we really restarting this conversation for the FUCKING millionth time???