Trump’s face-to-face session with the video-game industry — and its chief critics — is the White House’s latest roundtable on gun violence. “Congress should fund research into the effects that violent video games have on young minds,” he said at the time. Republicans historically have not pursued strong gun control measures, and they have left in place a law that bans the CDC from probing gun violence. In California, the state legislature in 2005 adopted a law that banned the sale of violent video games to anyone under age 18. Now, in the aftermath of Parkland, conservatives are renewing their calls for stronger regulation — rules that span more than just video games.

Source: Washington Post March 07, 2018 21:32 UTC