As the country continues to debate gun violence in the aftermath of the Parkland shooting, we’ve seen some of the usual misdirected discussion of whether video games bear some responsibility. President Trump, for example, will meet this week with video game manufacturers to discuss the “ongoing debate over school safety”—a topic an administration wary of engaging with gun control would certainly rather frame around gaming consoles and lines of code. While research currently does not suggest that video games lead to real-life violence, the question of whether communities can is another issue. And a couple of online hubs for gamers have a particularly ugly record when it comes to deifying school shooters—and one in particular hasn’t done a very good job cleaning up its platform.
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