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7 sie 2019 · In the wake of the El Paso shooting on Aug. 3 that left 22 dead and dozens injured, a familiar trope has reemerged: Often, when a young man is the shooter, people try to blame the tragedy on violent video games.
Just hours after a horrifying shooting—including the one that left 22 people dead in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday—someone will blame video games. But in the past two years, something has...
Third, soon after the shooting, some politicians linked the shooting to movie and video game violence, particularly Senator Jay Rockefeller (Terkel, 2012) and Representative Frank Wolf (2013), although other federal and state officials followed suit.
7 sty 2015 · The FBI identified the gunman in Tuesday’s shooting as Jerry Serrato. Douglas Lindquist, who heads the FBI’s El Paso office, said Serrato used a .380-caliber handgun to shoot Dr. Timothy Fjordbak and himself at the El Paso Veterans Affairs Health Care System at Fort Bliss.
Hours after a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, brought the weekend death total to 29, following a Saturday massacre in El Paso, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) offered his take on...
4 sie 2019 · In Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, the Court ruled 7-2 that a California law restricting the sale of violent video games to minors was unconstitutional.
The year 2019 marked incredible growth in video games and esports. Video games generated an estimated $152.1 billion in revenue, a nearly 10% increase from 2018, while esports are estimated to have generated $1.1 billion, about a 30% increase.
