Donald Trump blames video games, mental health, social media & internet for shootings
 

“Mental illness and hatred pull the trigger, not the gun,” he said.


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President Donald Trump condemned white supremacy on Monday, calling for
Americans to unite around several proposals to help identify and prevent mass
shootings.


“In one voice, our nation must condemn racism, bigotry and white
supremacy,” Trump said. “These sinister ideologies must be defeated. Hate
has no place in America, hatred warps the mind, ravages the heart and
devours the soul.”


The president signaled support for stronger laws regulating the Internet,
social media, and violent video games and supported the concept of improved
mental health and “red flag” laws, allowing relatives to recommend court-
ordered seizures of their firearms.


We must recognize that the Internet has provided a dangerous avenue to
radicalize disturbed minds and perform demented acts,” he said. “We must
shine a light on the dark recesses of the Internet and stop mass murders
before they start.”


Social media, he said, was an “evil contagion” for hatred.


The president also blamed violent and “gruesome and grisly” video games
for contributing to the shootings.


“It is too easy today for troubled youth to surround themselves with a culture
that celebrates violence,” he said. “We must stop or substantially reduce this
and it has to begin immediately.”


Trump also called for stronger mental health laws that would help “better
identify” mentally disturbed individuals capable of mass shootings.


He proposed that new laws could ensure that individuals suffering from mental
health could “not only get treatment but when necessary, involuntary
confinement.”

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Everything but the actual causes, then

Yes, and what is giving these mentally ill people the ability to kill vast numbers of people in minutes? Guns.

:facepalm:

Has he explained why he's not doing more for mental health? (Beyond locking people up in asylums).

poor america for having to deal with him

if trump does it properly he will be able to shut down social meda and lock anyone up for "mental health" issues ... but that's another debate

He'd never do the first, he has too much fun on twitter.

Properly or worryingly?

scaringly

Unfortunately, a lot of mental health facilities in the USA have closed down over the years, so people with mental problems are more commonly on the streets without treatment, so of course there's more chance of them causing trouble.

Social media is toxic, no-one can deny that.

Exactly this, and with no gun control it's easier for these people to get their hands on weaponry allowing them to mass murder with very little effort.

im pretty sure if they could not get assault rifles this whole thing would be a lot less

Social media...his Twitter for example

If video games, social media and the internet were to blame then attacks of this frequency would be widespread around the world but these attacks are a US problem and one that's festered through inactivity because too many politicians are scared of the NRA. Trump is just spewing out the typical right wing/boomer scapegoats that always get blamed instead of dealing with the fact that the level of gun violence in the US is a problem unique to the US and that if things ever are to change, the laws regarding guns must change. It'll never happen though, republicans and far too much of the right wing are more concerned with doing what's easy rather than what's right.

Hate speech and rhetoric spewed out from the top has more of an effect on would-be terrorists then ****ing Fortnite. World leaders cannot speak out of term, they must be careful with the language they use or they'll inspire maniacs to commit atrocities. Trump has spent years demonising minorities and laughing along with extreme elements and that has an effect in causing extremists to feel validated in their actions, to inspire them to take murderous action.

This.
He will blame anything than the gutter level of political discourse he is responsible for

The face of hate

And below the mouthpiece of hate

Well yeah that too, haha

...no fault laid with himself then...?...and that he treats talk of shooting people as if it were a video game...Trump’s Game...

he's a monster

Everything but his own warped ramblings... ok.

The Onion is always great

A literal idiot

His face makes me physically sick :yuk:

Of course he'll blame anyone and anything other than himself.

The last time I checked none of these things were calling Hispanic people “invaders“ and “rapists” and lets be honest here, we can't actually absolve the blame from the actual shooters either.