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by Justin Baragona | 10:55 am, October 8th, 2017
In the wake of the worst mass shooting in American history, there has been renewed interest in increasing gun control regulation. There has also been pushback from conservatives who feel that gun control measures will either not do anything to prevent gun violence or will lead to a slippery slope towards a ban on firearms.
During a panel discussion on CNNs State of the Union this morning, political commentator and former GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum waded into the debate by taking aim at the entertainment industry. After finding consensus with liberals on the banning of bump stocks and modifying semi-automatic weapons to shoot like automatic ones, Santorum then said more attention should be focused on video games and films.
Violence in television and the video games there is a mountain of evidence out there, psychological evidence, about what were doing to our young people with these video games, violent video games, and you never hear the left trying to go after Hollywood or the gaming market, Santorum exclaimed. It is never involved in this discussion. Where is the solution? Here we are. Where is the solution?
He would keep going on about Hollywood.
Always gun control, Santorum complained. It is never about the violence we have in our society, it is never about what Hollywood, you know, contribution to that.
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WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)are playing violent video games and watching films? Kinda late for that, huh? They weren't even around when Paddock was young. Ban Gunsmoke and the Lone Ranger!!!!!!
oasis
(49,152 posts)Cartoonist
(7,298 posts)Violence in television and the video games there is a mountain of evidence out there, psychological evidence, about what were doing to our young people with these video games."
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There's an awful lot of violence in the Bible. Look at what it's done to Rick.
Turbineguy
(37,213 posts)it's the yellow meatloaf. We must eradicate the yellow meatloaf.
procon
(15,805 posts)If he's so concerned about even just the images of guns that appear in cartoons, video games, and the plastic set props used by actors, why isn't he even more concerned about real guns that are killing real people?
No illustration of a video game gun has ever been used to kill a single person, and no movie prop gun has ever been used in a mass shooting incident. If he still wants to have 'gun control' for our entertainment choices, we already have it with something callethe "off" button. Now, lets see him do the same thing for real guns.
Initech
(99,915 posts)Because that's what the GOP does best - they have no arguments of their own so they reuse the same ones.
Initech
(99,915 posts)Paladin
(28,204 posts)He's no better than Gingrich---other than having less evident enthusiasm for blowjobs and divorces.
msongs
(67,199 posts)rustydog
(9,186 posts)On an issue of life and death. Literally life and death. This man believes if we allow homosexuality in America, If we allow same-sex marriages, we will have man on dog sex as well....
Orsino
(37,428 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)2. Your talking points are 20 years out of date
standingtall
(2,785 posts)Halo,Call of Duty and Borderlands. I plan to still be playing video games when I get to 64 just saying. If my fingers still work by then. How come Rick Santorum isn't going after the NRA for the crappy shooter video games they promote?