Fox News blaming recent mass shootings on..........video games

[Nevilledog]

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nikki mccann ramírez
@NikkiMcR
Fox host: It seems like these [shootings] have gotten so much worse since video games became so realistic and so violent


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4:00 PM · May 15, 2022

[vercetti2021]

1. I've played violent games all my life

Guess what? I'm perfectly fine! Games are games. They don't contribute to hate. However Fox...you might wanna look at yourselves

[Lovie777]

2. AGAIN . ..

Enough.

[SoonerPride]

3. Japanese YA play video games too

Without mass shootings.

Funny how that works.

[mucifer]

4. Well don't hold your breath for an apology fox

news will always keep fox newsing

[ificandream]

9. Fox and news don't belong in the same sentence.

[CrackityJones75]

5. Or its the easy access to high powered rifles.

[Midnight Writer]

6. Like a washed-up band playing their biggest hits at the Senior Center.

[dchill]

11. Or Great White at the Station.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. If they were sued for creating public calamity, would video games defend them?

I think we are having in internal war of sorts in the US. At least when these shooters let loose because of what has been put in their minds.

[EarlG]

8. Fox News: "White people are going to be replaced!"

Mass murderer: “White people are going to be replaced!”

Fox News: “Er… video games?”

[Docreed2003]

10. The old fall backs

When a tragedy strikes involving guns blame mental health, blame video games blame anything other than east access to guns and the white supremacist crap that their network chooses to promote via one of their "stars"

[Walleye]

12. Video games are played around the world. Mass shootings happen here with regularity

[FakeNoose]

13. That's weird - I blame it on vicious, hateful lies from the TV set

So who's right? Hmmmm ....

[ck4829]

14. Causation does not mean correlation

Blu-rays are gradually overtaking DVDs which overtook VHS tapes.

Must be a connection.

[Cha]

15. Fuck Off fox & their White Sheets.

💙💛

[Jilly_in_VA]

16. Why, is there one

starring Tuckums that we don't know about?

[dsc]

17. Japan's video games make ours look like the Teletubbies

and they have one of the lowest, if not the lowest level of gun violence on planet earth.

[Solly Mack]

18. They'll never admit to their role in advocating and advancing white supremacy.

[Rhiannon12866]

19. Oh, right that's got to be it - blame anything but the content you spew every day...

[AngryOldDem]

20. Just another bright, shiny object...

…to distract viewers as they pump them full of “white replacement theory” nonsense.

[Liberal In Texas]

21. Yep. "It's not us!" "Look over there at those video games."

There's no proof of course. And they don't want to mention that the easy sale of military weapons to civilians might have anything to do with it.

Years before video games, the RW blamed rock music for crime or moral decay and whatever they didn't like.

[AngryOldDem]

22. It's plausible deniability writ large.

Fox makes Rush look like an amateur in that department.

[LiberalFighter]

23. Are video games played as much as they were 10 years ago?

Are video games played more on computers or cell phones now?

[AZProgressive]

24. Newer generation consoles are out

But AAA games are not being produced as much due to the pandemic so not sure if people are still playing them at the same rate. Video games I played on cell phones rely on micro transactions to make the game more fun which can be expensive. Computers are as good or better for gaming than consoles but I have a PS5. I also have the newer small Xbox which I found online before the PS5.

[Wednesdays]

25. Was the shooter an avid player of such games?

If he was totally obsessed with them, then mayyyyybe there could be an argument about the correlation. Otherwise, just STFU.

[Buns_of_Fire]

26. Let's replace Tuckums with a video game and see what happens. nt