President Donald Trump met with video game industry leaders on Thursday to talk about the connection between violence and video games.
The Trump administration shared a video that includes many violent scenes from video games. And now, thanks to reporters at The Verge, we know which games Trump and the White House think may be inadvertently training the next mass shooter.
You can watch the full White House video here.
The video contains clips from the following video games:
We have to look at the internet because a lot of bad things are happening to young kids and young minds and their minds are being formed, Trump said in February, according to The Washington Post.
We have to do something about maybe what theyre seeing and how they're seeing it. And also video games. Im hearing more and more people say the level of violence on video games is really shaping young peoples thoughts. You see these movies, theyre so violent. And yet a kid is able to see the movie if sex isnt involved, but killing is involved. And maybe they have to put a rating system for that. You get into a whole very complicated, very big deal but the fact is that you are having movies come out that are so violent with the killing and everything else that maybe that's another thing were going to have to discuss.
The meeting on Thursday brought multiple industry leaders together to discuss the issue.
He asked a lot of questions and he raised concerns with the violent nature of these games and asked the question: Is this causing the kids to have (this) violent behavior? Rep. Vicky Hartzler, R-MO, who attended the meeting, told the AP.
The Parents Television Council also attended Thursdays meeting. The conservative watchdog groups program director, Melissa Henson, said there are immense challenges to keeping violent games away from children.
I dont think there are easy answers and I dont think that were going to be able to figure out the solution in the course of a one-hour conversation, Henson said, according to the AP.
Back in February, PTC President Tim Winter said in a statement sent to the Deseret News that he agreed with Trump after the U.S. president spoke out against graphic media.
Winter called on Hollywood to eradicate graphic media.
We wholeheartedly agree that kids can be impacted and harmed by exposure to violent media and decades of academic research backs it up. Our kids are inundated with a culture of violence, in part because of Hollywoods penchant for marketing violent films, TV shows and violent video games to kids, Winter said.
The Trump administration shared a video that includes many violent scenes from video games. And now, thanks to reporters at The Verge, we know which games Trump and the White House think may be inadvertently training the next mass shooter.
You can watch the full White House video here.
The video contains clips from the following video games:
- Call of Duty: Black Ops
- Call of Duty; Modern Warfare 2
- Dead by Daylight
- The New Order
- Fallout 4
- Sniper Elite 4
- The Evil Within
We have to look at the internet because a lot of bad things are happening to young kids and young minds and their minds are being formed, Trump said in February, according to The Washington Post.
We have to do something about maybe what theyre seeing and how they're seeing it. And also video games. Im hearing more and more people say the level of violence on video games is really shaping young peoples thoughts. You see these movies, theyre so violent. And yet a kid is able to see the movie if sex isnt involved, but killing is involved. And maybe they have to put a rating system for that. You get into a whole very complicated, very big deal but the fact is that you are having movies come out that are so violent with the killing and everything else that maybe that's another thing were going to have to discuss.
The meeting on Thursday brought multiple industry leaders together to discuss the issue.
He asked a lot of questions and he raised concerns with the violent nature of these games and asked the question: Is this causing the kids to have (this) violent behavior? Rep. Vicky Hartzler, R-MO, who attended the meeting, told the AP.
The Parents Television Council also attended Thursdays meeting. The conservative watchdog groups program director, Melissa Henson, said there are immense challenges to keeping violent games away from children.
I dont think there are easy answers and I dont think that were going to be able to figure out the solution in the course of a one-hour conversation, Henson said, according to the AP.
Back in February, PTC President Tim Winter said in a statement sent to the Deseret News that he agreed with Trump after the U.S. president spoke out against graphic media.
Winter called on Hollywood to eradicate graphic media.
We wholeheartedly agree that kids can be impacted and harmed by exposure to violent media and decades of academic research backs it up. Our kids are inundated with a culture of violence, in part because of Hollywoods penchant for marketing violent films, TV shows and violent video games to kids, Winter said.