Trump: video games and movies are to blame for young people's violence, not guns

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Translation: we must shred the first amendment to protect the second.

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The thing that's peculiar about this argument is that there's more sound scholarly research suggesting a reverse correlation between gaming and acts of violence (i.e., that, due to stress relief aspects of gaming, an individual who games is less likely to be violent) than there is showing a positive correlation between gaming and violence.

Even if violence in games and movies weren't protected speech, this whole thing would essentially be a poorly disguised moral panic argument with little chance of success. Because it is protected speech, thankfully anything that comes of this moral panic will be struck down as unconstitutional.