RFK Jr. Blames violent video games for Mass Shootings.

Yup, famously before that, violence didn't exist at all.
- No but his dad and uncle were still alive.
These guys were evil! 😯
Games of Mass Destruction
"Yo, Charlie got PONGED"

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.

“Switzerland has a comparable number of guns as we do, and the last mass shooting they had was 23 years ago,” said Kennedy, 71. “We have a mass shooting every 23 hours.”

“There are many things that happened in the 1990’s that could explain these,” he added. “One is the dependence on psychiatric drugs... there could be connections with video games and social media.”

okaaaaaaay... follow that train of thought just a liiiiiitle bit further bobby. Do you think Switzerland is stuck in the 80s or something?

train of thought
bobby
You got yourself in a cul-de-sac there. The worm ate the train long ago 😂
- God damnit Bobby...
remember, that his bear cub incident was only 10-11years prior too.

Oh wow, we're really hitting all the classics.

We're almost back to blaming violence on D&D. Exciting times.
- They're communing with Satan, I hear!
- We'll get there, just give it time.
- It's those skateboards that done it, and the comic books the hooligans are readin. And all them lady folk wearin trousers! It's the devil I tells ya!
Tipper Gore just got a tingling sensation in her naughty bits.
*If you saw the pre edit you're welcome.
- Aw man what'd I miss?
We got time travel before GTA 6
Can't risk hinting that the policies that they push directly lead to the material conditions that cause these shootings.
When you are trying to avoid the most obvious solutions at all costs, you have to recycle the greatest hits.

Are we really restarting this conversation for the FUCKING millionth time???

There was one helluva gamer in Utah today.

I live in Utah and have a coworker that was supposed to be there for class tonight. Wild times...
How many more until he can call in a drone or an air strike?

Crime in the US peaked in 1993... when Doom first came out. Then it started dropping until recently.

Conclusion: violent video games cause a drop in crime.

But it peaked the same year Doom came out. Obviously Doom was the cause of the peak!
I should add, that as less people played Doom, violent crime reduced.
- Doom is a game made by a cultist where the player goes to hell to interact with demons!!!
  Ban the Mormon made demon killing game!

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.
- fun fact its created by the russian, its also called the FIREHOSE OF FALSEHOOD.
It's because we have Trump to deal with that we have him to deal with.
Because Brain Worm Jr is Trumps gift to the world.
Who do you think they'll run in 2028?
Same reason any other politician is on the news. Because unfortunately they dictate our collective plight as Americans. And really outside the US as well.
Because they control the country and people should know what they are doing. It's not that complicated.

Games don't cause mass shootings.

Conservatives(policies) do.

Conservatives (reactionary fear mongering) do.

You mean the same dumbass that blames an ingredient that hasn't been in vaccines in over 20 years for Autism, an ingredient that has never been shown to cause autism in the first place? Does anyone actually take this jackass seriously?

Bobby Kennedy must be rolling over in his grave.

Yeah unfortunately 40% of Americans do take this jackass seriously.

Well he's right.

Until the invention of video games no one ever killed anyone ever. Then pong came along, and it was mass murder every other day.

Proof:
- I'm bout to pong yo eye out, mutha flicka!

i blame mass shootings for video games

Charlie Kirk would like to have a word. Go ahead Charlie, Charlie? CHARLIE NO!!!!

Charlie yes! Charlie always yes!

Ooh, so original. Going back to those age old talking points eh. So fresh, so new. Why does anyone listen to these wind bags?

Oh we're doing this one again? Good luck, things have changed since the last time you dusted this one off.

I played a lot of Pac-Man and now I'm munching for pills in dark rooms while listening to repetitive music. It's true, I love techno parties. Joke, I barily ever played Pac-Man.

I also played a lot of age of empires. Now I annoy everyone with "whololoooo" all the time. Joke, no I don't.

It probably has nothing to do with widely available guns.

Here in NL we don't have that, but we do have loads of mass shootings. Oh wait, no we don't. But we don't have violent video games. Oh wait, yes we do.

This comic is 26 years old. Still relevant.
- https://auknewmedia.wordpress.com/2012/11/03/pacmans-effect-on-behavior/
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Battlefield and CoD are responsible for war?

Oh jeez, I glad they didn't have video games in 1914, otherwise they might have killed a bunch of people!

Microwaved Mel Gibson can fuck all the way off with that nonsense.

Peripherally related:

https://www.psypost.org/sexualized-video-games-are-not-causing-harm-to-male-or-female-players-according-to-new-research/

RFK Jr do better...Tylenol killed 7 people in the 90s, Kirk was obviously killed by Tylenol.

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.
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.
- why should we exclude suicides and accidents?
  also Greenland isn't a very reliable comparison statistically since their grand total of intentional murders in 2024 was 3. Canada is ranked 111 with a rate less than half of US. UK is ranked 142 with a rate less than a quarter of the US.

Jack Thompson

For those who don't remember this guy, he was pretty obnoxious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(activist)

What's old is new again...

No what's old is running the government

No, Nazis like you do. Look at Charlie Kirk. Nazi down.

Hey, dude was a POS but I'll never condone violence.

Didn't work last time, won't work this time

It actually galvanized people against the movement and made a younger generation more politically aware, including many probably seeing (voluntarily even) their first testimony to congress as they flipped over from MTV to CSPAN to watch some of their favorite rockers.
So yeah good call GOP
They are really in the shitter with ideas, they have a lot of levers right now, but they are truly staggering under their own weight. Their coalition isn't going to last forever.

RFK Jr. Blames violent video games for Mass Shootings.

I agree. Those who miss out on playing violent video games, end up resorting to real life violence later.

Been playing bloodborne all week. I still have no desire to go out with two wagon wheels assembled together with some kind of cog mechanism to toss it over my shoulder and slam it into dogs that are too aggressive for my tastes.

Do not lie to yourself hunter, it calls to you just as it calls to all of us. The need for blood the call of the hunt.
Throws spider Patches into the Walmart
Dogs or pigs?
- They're all beasts... Yarnam is done for....

it’s guns.

Remember when Coloumbine happened and politicians started blaming DOOM (a several year old game at that point) and Quake? Hell didn't they also try to blame the Matrix simply because the shooters were wearing trench coats? meanwhile the film came out like what? one or two weeks before the shootings?

Politicians just LOVE their scapegoats.

Not sure if this is the type of reaction post appropriate here.

https://hard-drive.net/hd/video-games/jfk-files-reveal-lee-harvey-oswald-played-violent-video-games/

Even if you've never heard of video games, you can tell this is total bullshit by the fact that RFK jr is saying it.

so the cheap access to assault weapons that NO ONE FUCKING NEEDS is not a factor? Also, the lack of mental health care? Yeah... right....

This man is an absolute moron, him saying this is no different from the uneducated garbage he’s been spewing

Remember when Mortal Kombat came out and we all started ripping each other's heads off and pulling out still beating hearts? Those were the days.

    
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I'm pretty sure the mass shootings are just emulation of the mass violence the ultrarich inflict on everyone on a daily basis.

I hope the shooter's name is Mario Brother

The CEO killing was nothing more than a correction of the Free Market. His denial policies went to far, and the market corrected the problem. In addition, his company, and other health companies as well, loosened up their denial policies as a result of the killing, almost certainly avoiding deaths. THAT is the very definition of a Free Market correction.
This is another one. MAGA policies have gone too far, and are promising to go further, despite outrage from the majority of the citizens. Now one of those citizens has attempted to reduce some of the most vicious, treasonous, and influential rhetoric by removing the source. It's another Free Market correction.
The Free Market is the Conservative religion, you would think they'd be cheering at evidence that it is working.
- Well what is the saying, free market for everyone else, but socialism for themselves.

Funny, Hillary Clinton said the same thing.

And Tipper Gore in the 90s.

I mean, typical boomer shit from an ignorant boomer. I'm not surprised at all.

Played adventure games and fighting games growing up. Never in my entire forty-something years have I even thrown a punch at anyone.

Japan LOVES video games, you don't see them being brought up for the reason they have sooo maaany murders. Oh wait...

(Now I play MMOs and I never cast a spell at anyone either, in case y'all wondering...)

I played tons of first person shooters, GTA, etc, and I also have never thrown a punch at anyone.
- I've punched multiple people, but I know I punched people before I ever had a game console or computer.
World War 2? Nanking? Unit 451. They were plenty messed up.
- So you are saying videogames fixed them?

If its a stupid idea. RFK jr. has had it.

The single biggest factor for American military hegemony in Grenada was Pac-Man.

Binding of Isaac is why I torture children /s

So it's a mass shooting now? Feels like a slap in the face to every other incident

Jfc, this again?

Hey fuck you....I know video games didn't cause shit...it seems like I ate that part of his dumbass brain.

Well, if you take away video games we'll have to find entertainment somewhere

He outed himself as an ignorant fool.

Hey, that's an insult to ignorant fools
He's been doing that his entire life.

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.

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.

Wolfenstein was pretty good, ngl

Yeah. When all y'all are talking about how we need government intervention and legislature to get you what you want?

THIS is why some of us are very wary of that and don't think "We are just idea people. Other people can make it a law" is at all a good idea.

If I don't pass that ant zone on silksong I'm going to shoot something.

What did they tell him about how his father and uncle died?

Probably the truth, just like they told him the truth about vaccines.

The Kennedy assassinations were clearly the result of the Hula Hoop.

His office leaked his plans to link video games to behavioral issues earlier this week, so he already had the press release ready, he just swapped some words around.

Christ, man. It’s either “god had a plan” or “captain price from mw2 indirectly shot the suspect, your honor”

Spoons made me fat!

Truth in England.

I guess RWS can add a 'Kennedy Mode' to Postal2 Redux. (in reference to the previous lowest difficulty, Liebermode, named after Senator Joe Lieberman.)

Video games? You mean mass murder training simulators.

Poor innocent guns being used for evil, good thing someone stands up for them. :')

A polly who doesn't know what they are talking about. nothing new here.

Well, he's retarded, so take it with a grain of salt.

Will somebody shoot this guy to make him a martyr?

Is this real?

what in the 1993

I know, right? Jack Thompson called, he wants his shtick back.
It's just a rehash of the same silly satanic panic in the 80s. Same idea, different scapegoat, slightly different thing it supposedly causes. But the repugnants have a multi decade history of this shit and trot it out every 5-10 years

His Brain worm is right. I remember when Pong first came out, and I'd get so pissed off when playing it, that I wanted to kill somebody.

I thought they figured out a long time ago that it was actually the ADHD medicine causing it

It depends on the individual. Those who cannot distinguish fiction from reality are the ones to watch out for but it’s tough to figure that out.

It really doesn't.
The only legitimate link between violence and video games is that violent people seem to like violent video games. I haven't seen any compelling evidence of a video game causing someone to kill.
- And what do you think makes people violent? Their upbringing, their environment, their circumstances, and so on. Obviously, if video games are a significant part of their lives, they can contribute to violent tendencies especially if someone cannot distinguish fiction from reality. That’s exactly my point.

RFK Jr. is the epitome of The Weekly World News.

Yeah sure its not idiots like this calling democrats child rapists thats doing it

Ask Jack Thompson how that line of reasoning worked out for him