On Thursday, US president Donald Trump met with video game developers as well as people with the scientifically unfounded belief that violent video games — not necessarily the rampant supply of easily accessible actual firearms — are responsible for mass shootings throughout the US. And let me tell you, folks, the president is extremely worried about all these wicked gamer kills, believe me.
Screenshot: The official White House YouTube account, if you can believe that
During the meeting, the White House played a clip of random virtual characters including but not limited to Nazi soldiers, a guy eating lunch in Fallout 4, and the evil general from Modern Warfare 2 being killed, sometimes with knives but also with bullets in exaggerated, slow-motion X-ray vision so that you can see their skulls.
The White House then published said compilation, which features clips ripped from various YouTube accounts including a streamer named “Deathmule”, for the benefit of the public below.
Like the president, I have very, very serious concerns about this plague of digital violence and I have real, important questions I demand the sick people who made these so-called “games” answer. Can you use these “X Box”and “Play Station” guns to kill real people? Why are you training a generation of killers to #360NoScope Nazi skeletons? And why didn’t Obama do anything about the Hot Coffee mod?
We’re waiting!