Donald Trump and members of the Republican party have once again linked video games with gun violence, following two more mass shootings in the United States this weekend.
22 people were killed and 24 injured when a lone gunman opened fire in a shopping mall in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday. A separate mass shooting incident occurred hours later on Sunday morning, this time in Dayton, Ohio, resulting in the deaths of 9 people, with 27 more injured.
Following the attacks, members of the Republican Party, and President Trump himself, came forward to single out video games as an influencing factor in the shootings.
“We must stop the glorification of violence in our society,” said Trump in a broadcast on Monday. “This includes the gruesome and grisly video games that are now commonplace. It is too easy today for troubled youth to surround themselves with a culture that celebrates violence. We must stop or substantially reduce this, and it has to begin immediately.”