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    The New York Times‏Verified account @nytimes Mar 9

    President Trump said violent video games and movies may play a role in school shootings — a claim that has been rejected many times in the past 2 decadeshttp://nyti.ms/2DcLOLI 

    5:45 AM - 9 Mar 2018
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      2. kidz bop wutang‏ @erikginty Mar 9
        Replying to @nytimes

        This is true, I played one game of Tetris and immediately started throwing bricks off of my roof at my neighbors.

        1 reply 3 retweets 55 likes
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      2. Björn Björnsson‏ @HymanKaplan Mar 9
        Replying to @nytimes

        It wouldn't surprise me if he was right on that subject. The Norwegian massmurderer Breivik was known to have practised on-line, before his hideous rampade!

        5 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      3. Brandon Wagoner‏ @wagobran Mar 9
        Replying to @HymanKaplan @nytimes

        I played (violent) video games growing up, and despite the odds, I'm a successful adult contributing to society. It's a miracle, really.

        2 replies 0 retweets 14 likes
      4. Björn Björnsson‏ @HymanKaplan Mar 9
        Replying to @wagobran @nytimes

        Maybe you had the guidance of good parents. Breivik never had that; just the hatred his mother had towards his absent father:-/

        2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      5. Brandon Wagoner‏ @wagobran Mar 9
        Replying to @HymanKaplan @nytimes

        Sounds like the issues were more than just video games. Video games are art, just like books, movies, and television. Also something you fail to examine is the positive effects video games can have on spacial cognition and hand-eye coordination.

        1 reply 0 retweets 12 likes
      6. Björn Björnsson‏ @HymanKaplan Mar 9
        Replying to @wagobran @nytimes

        Absolutely. But like in the case of most other serious diseases; it's a combination of different ingredients that may prove harmless to most of us but turns lethal in 1 out of 1000 cases.

        3 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      7. Brandon Wagoner‏ @wagobran Mar 9
        Replying to @HymanKaplan @nytimes

        I can maybe get behind that, but I don't think video games are the reason that these people commit such atrocities. At best, they provide a virtual world where they can act out their fantasies. The conditions that led them to commit these acts were already present.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      8. Björn Björnsson‏ @HymanKaplan Mar 9
        Replying to @wagobran @nytimes

        In those predisposed to violence, the urge will probably always be there to act it out in reality. Violent games, videos and films will only feed their fantasies, blur their sense of the limits between fantasy and reality and help push them over the edge.

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      1. Mario U Comics  🎮‏ @MarioUComics Mar 9
        Replying to @nytimes

        I didn't know we were back in the 90s again

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      1. Jeremy S‏ @securehandle Mar 9
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        I read Harry Potter and became a dark wizard.

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      2. Hayli  ⚡️‏ @HayliNic Mar 9
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        THANK YOU 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

        1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes
      3. Marc White‏ @whitemarc1998 Mar 9
        Replying to @HayliNic @nytimes

        It can’t just be the game surely the person playing said game would be a more bigger part in that

        0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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      1. JewellsVern  🌊‏ @jwuestis Mar 9
        Replying to @nytimes

        Did Dr. Donald get his Psychology degree through Trump University?

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      1. Nick Mordowanec‏ @NickMordo Mar 9
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        Every country has the same "violent" games, yet they don't have the mass shootings. Must be because they don't allow easy, unfettered access to guns.

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      1. Bob the Bodybuilder‏ @bobbybob2211 Mar 9
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        This is a pretty lazy approach to such a severe issue

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      2. Mike Fabianek‏ @MikeFabianek Mar 9
        Replying to @nytimes

        I am not a fan of Trump but in this case he is absolutely right the German neuroscientist Manfred Spitzer has been putting this forward for quite a while now violence on TV and in video games influences adolescents in a very negative way #rolemodelneeded

        3 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Matthew Maples‏ @JustMaples Mar 9
        Replying to @MikeFabianek @nytimes

        These games are played around the world. So why don't they all shoot up their school? Maybe because the responsibility is on the person. Been gaming since I was a kid. I have a degree and a career with no criminal history. But games are the problem right? SMH...

        2 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
      4. Mike Fabianek‏ @MikeFabianek Mar 9
        Replying to @JustMaples @nytimes

        Not everyone who plays video games becomes a killer - that's not the point - but the acceptance for violence is surely higher and also the ethical barrier is lowered to commit a crime - what happens if one is isolated and desperate? Our adolescents should not be taught violence.

        5 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. Matthew Maples‏ @JustMaples Mar 9
        Replying to @MikeFabianek @nytimes

        Ok except you can't prove any of those claims. Again I don't know any gamer who is likely to just accept that someone being gunned down is normal. And it's asinine to think so. You know what gamers do? Promote charity. Positivity. Community. Not violence.

        1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
      6. Mike Fabianek‏ @MikeFabianek Mar 9
        Replying to @JustMaples @nytimes

        Matthew that is common sense, anyway it is not only happening in America-as mentioned earlier one of the leading neuroscientists Manfred Spitzer has explained this in detail-how do small children learn they imitate their surrounding famous social experiment Kasper Hauser

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