Republican official points to video games, lack of prayer in school after El Paso mass shooting
“How long are we going let, for example, and ignore at the federal level particularly where they can do something about the video game industry,” Texas Lt. Gov Dan Patrick said Sunday on"Fox & Friends," condemning the attack as “evil.”
A hate-filled"manifesto," as police called it, published online before the El Paso shooting, has been linked to Crusius. Though El Paso police authorities have not confirmed if the shooter wrote the 2,300-word anti-immigrant tirade, the police chief there said they are examining it as “a nexus to potential hate crime.”“In this manifesto that we believe is from the shooter, … he talks about living out his super soldier fantasy on 'Call of Duty,'” Patrick said.
Story continuesSimilarly, to address gun violence in the U.S. after the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting, then-President Obama in 2013 urged Congress to support a bill that would give the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention a budget of $10 million to conduct a study on “the effects violent video games have on young minds.”
Other than video games, Patrick also cited “the violence of just bullying people on social media every day” and took issue with the lack of prayers in school.
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