Obviously only Americans have video games.
Mediaite reports:
Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick (R) embarked on an tirade about video games on Sunday in response to the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton this weekend.
In an interview with Fox & Friends, Patrick mourned for the dead before pivoting to argue that video games were the root cause of the shootings, even going so far as to call for federal action to be taken against the video game industry.
“How long are we going to ignore — at the federal level particularly — where they can do something about the video game industry. In this manifesto that we believe is from the shooter, this manifesto where he talks about living out his super soldier fantasy on Call of Duty. We know the video game industry is bigger than the movie and music industry combined.”
Here’s part of Texas Lt. Gov Dan Patrick’s appearance on Fox & Friends, where he uses the El Paso shooting to call for federal government intervention in the video game industry, more prayer in schools, and more saluting the flag, among other things. pic.twitter.com/8xqkEyvvH7
— John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) August 4, 2019
Here’s Dan Patrick on Fox News previously talking about the Great Replacement theory pic.twitter.com/hBUVbuEUeC
— John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) August 4, 2019
Among those who declined the request from @CNNSotu to come on to discuss the mass shootings:@WhiteHouse
Texas Gov @GregAbbott_TX
Texas LG @DanPatrick
Sen @JohnCornyn
Sen @tedcruz, @GovMikeDeWine, @GOPLeader McCarthy@senatemajldr did not respond to our request.— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) August 4, 2019