rhetoric

Putting to bed the myth that video games are linked to mass killings

timothy burkeCase studies

In a nationally televised address Monday morning, President Trump outlined his targets of blame for this past weekend’s mass killings in El Paso and Dayton, and among them fell “the gruesome and grisly video games that are now commonplace.” That echoed numerous others from the past 36 hours: Video games, of course, have been the bogeyman for explaining mass killings since Columbine 20 years ago; while it’s a common trope […]

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Texas’s Dan Patrick gets everything wrong with “We won’t let our kids even pray in our schools”

timothy burkeCase studies

While Republican leaders have refused to discuss yesterday’s two mass killings on CNN—that network’s Jake Tapper noted on-air that all of Texas’s state leaders and U.S. Senators declined invitations to appear on the network—Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick did drop by Fox & Friends to discuss the white supremacist terror attack that killed 20 people at an El Paso Wal-Mart. During that appearance, he blamed the epidemic of massacres on the […]

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