>> As Republicans stumble upon one another trying to figure out which scapegoat they're
gonna use to deflect from the issue of guns in America.
The topic of video games has come up.
This has happens time to time.
And here is the insanely ignorant argument that we keep hearing from these lawmakers.
>> But the idea of these video games to dehumanize individuals to have a game of shooting individuals
and others, I've always felt that as a problem for future generations and others.
>> This manifesto, he talks about living out his super soldier fantasy on Call of Duty.
And I say, how long are we gonna let, for example, and ignore at the federal level particularly,
where they can do something about the video game industry.
>> And we must stop the glorification of violence in our society.
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.
>> Just wanna note that the Trump property in Doral has an arcade with first shooter
video games.
Just putting that out there.
First person shooter, I'm an underground gamer.
I don't know if you know that, but I messed that up, badly.
>> Okay, yeah I don't know that based on that.
So look, in all seriousness, as always, Trump hypocritical on every single issue.
Those same properties were filled with undocumented immigrants that were workers.
>> Yes.
>> And it was so embarrassing two and a half years into his administration when he got
caught, he was like, okay, I will now fire them even though I was paying them less wages.
And now I have to pay American workers more wages, God damn it, right?
Hypocrite through and through on every single issue.
>> So let's get back to video games and whether or not they contribute to mass shootings or
whether they're the catalyst for mass shootings in America.
Now America isn't unique.
There are many other countries that have high sales of video games.
But no other country has the problem that we have, because we're swimming in guns.
Now let's say we were to give the right wing the benefit of the doubt and it turns out
that what they're saying is true.
I'm gonna show you what a chart would look like if video games were even correlated to
mass shootings in America.
If you look at this chart, you'll see, first of all, America right there in the middle
at the very top United States.
That indicates how far ahead we are in the number of mass shootings compared to all those
other countries, including many European countries who also have high sales of video games, right?
So here's what the chart actually looks like.
Yeah, so there is no correlation between video game spending per capita and gun related murders,
in America, right or in of these countries.
>> Everyone under the age of 35 knows this.
I don't care how right wing you are, you know this.
>> Yeah.
>> In Japan they have just as many violent video games as us and they have no mass shootings
at all.
We have a mass shooting every single day, really, does it take a rocket scientist to
figure out.
Even if you didn't see that data collected from all those different countries to know
that it ain't the video games.
Everybody knows that, except the slimy Republican politicians.
Even they know that, but they're like, yeah, but it's kinda inconvenient.
Because I get bribed by the NRA every single year.
>> Yeah, what if.
>> So yeah, I have to put a boogey man on it.
>> Yeah.
>> So the boogey man I'm gonna pick is video games.
Really, I'm serious.
MAGA guys, right wing guys if you're watching this video.
Are any of you stupid enough to think that it's the video games.
>> No, no one thinks that.
>> I don't think even you guys are that stupid.
>> I know.
But look, more importantly, okay, so let's say Republicans say, okay, it's the video
games.
And then they somehow regulate video games or they banned violent video games.
Where does it end?
What else are they gonna ban?
Are they gonna ban TV shows?
Are they gonna ban movies?
Are they gonna ban anything that has any type of depiction of violence?
Are they gonna ban Donald Trump?
Are they gonna ban, I don't know, the Pentagon?
Are they gonna ban war hawks like Lindsey Graham, who salivates at the thought of doing
a nuclear attack on North Korea.
Are they gonna get rid of all these things, all these people?
Come on.
By the way so let me give you this report from the Washington Post.
This was back in 2012 because as you can imagine, this comes up over and over again because
mass shootings happen in America over and over again.
It's true that Americans spend billions of dollars on video games every year and that
the United States has the highest firearm murder rate in the developed world.
But other countries where video games are popular have much lower firearm-related murder
rates.
In fact, countries where video game consumption is highest tend to be some of the safest in
the world, likely product of the fact that developed or rich countries where consumers
can afford expensive games, have, on average, much less violent crime.
>> Except America.
>> Except America cuz we're swimming in guns.
And also, I mean, look, I think that there are so many factors, right?
But regardless of how many societal ills you're dealing with, what kills people is the easy
access to these guns or easy access to weapons that have high capacity magazines.
Which is why in Dayton, Ohio, the cops can stop the shooter within 30 seconds, but the
shooter has already killed nine people and injured dozens more.
>> Yeah, so look guys, we're intellectually honest.
So we thought it was stupid when the Democrats had this issue and they did back in 1994 Joe
Lieberman, started talking about this, is that surprising?
Has Joe Lieberman ever been right on a single issue?
Okay, so that's Lieberman.
And then guess who got into the act in the early 2000s.
Hillary Clinton, and she talked about how video games are violent and leading to violence,
totally wrong.
And then the last Democratic politician to do a big push against video games was Joe
Biden.
Okay we're not making this stuff up, it is history, those are the three leading Democrats
that were against video games.
And we don't agree with the Republicans, we agree more with the, we're Progressives and
we're happy to call those guys out, they were all totally wrong.
And by the way, studies have been done since those different congressional hearings, etc.
And every one of them, even not comparing us to other countries within America says,
it does not lead to violence.
Every single study shows it does not lead to violence.
So the Democrats finally stop saying it.
The last guy standing was Joe Biden on that position.
I don't know if he still has it, because he likes to keep positions for 40 years that
don't make any sense.
Okay.
>> But the Republicans have now all flipped they're like, good, I need something!
Just not guns.
Not guns.
So bunnies, kittens, rainbows, video games.
Screw it, let's go with the video games.
Doesn't matter.
Nothing we say is based on fact anyway, right?
>> Right.
>> So Republican voters out there, Republican supporters out there, are you willing to be
intellectually honest and say yes, the politicians you just saw are obvious jackasses and they're
lying on purpose?
Are you willing to say that?
Nine out of ten times, no, no, my side.
No, I don't care about facts.
My side.