President Trump on Thursday discussed the nation’s mass shooting problem with a number of officials and lawmakers, and suggested the viewing of violence may be a contributing factor.
President Trump on Thursday discussed the nation's mass shooting problem with a number of officials and lawmakers, and suggested that violence in video games and movies may be a contributing factor. "I'm hearing more and more people say the level of violence on video games is really shaping young people's thoughts," Trump commented. "And you go one further step and that's the movies...maybe they have to put a rating system for that." "You see these movies, they're so violent," the president further said. "And yet a kid is able to see the movie if sex isn't involved, but killing is involved, and maybe they have to put a rating system for that."
Notably, they already do, with the Motion Picture Association of America assigning audience suitability indicators based on sexual and violent content and the Entertainment Software Rating Board doing the same for video games. However, it is possible that Trump was suggesting that the criteria for the various audience age ranges be revamped.
