Well, yeah, of course. I think it's all pretty well established that video games aren't a significant contributor to any aspect of our problems, here. But, like video games, themselves, another look into them is a great distraction. Looking at it from the President's perspective, he's boxed in. There is clearly a problem with violence in the country. This isn't really a problem he's equipped to deal with, though. People on the coasts are demanding tighter gun control. But, for better or worse, he was elected and has strongest support from more rural interior of America, and these are the people most likely to be heard on social issues, right now. And outside of the big cities, guns have a long, long tradition in families. When you grow up in a family that still has great, great Grandpa's musket... And a traditional right of passage is your first deer hunt.... It's hard to blame guns. Like an airplane, a car, or an angle grinder, it's just a tool. Sure, it can kill someone, if you misuse it. But we've had guns for hundreds of years, fully automatic weapons for more than 100 years, and most "modern" assault rifle designs are over 50 years old. But the modern string of school shootings started less than 20 years ago.
So, it's clear to the people who have grown up in cities, and haven't had a need to hold a gun for at least 3 generations, that we need massive amounts of gun control. If THEY haven't needed a gun, no one does. THOSE other people are just old and backwards.
It's just as clear to the people who have grown up in the countryside and have always owned and carried guns that gun control isn't the answer.
It's becoming another fundamental split in the country. Neither side is at all interested in caring about the other. On the coasts, you have people who have never visited anywhere in the US that wasn't a big city. Hillary's campaign summed it up perfectly. She didn't need the "flyover states." Places you'd never bring yourself down to visiting, let alone understanding the issues of the people living there. Statistically, there's no one living there. They're not important. And, in turn, you're starting to get people in the rural states who have never visited a big city. This country is so big, and growing so intolerant, that it has given up even trying to understand itself.
But, back to the problem at hand, the President needs to be seen doing SOMETHING. So, looking into video games again is brilliant. Everyone is yelling "YOU HAVE TO DO SOMETHING!" So, this is doing something. It's an action. Most everyone will roll their eyes and say "Don't do that..." but since it was an action, it deflects the criticism, and things slowly return to normal, without anything really changing. Sure, it's a game of kick the can, and it won't fix the fundamental problem. There will be more shootings to come. But, I think Donald Trump is ill-equipped to deal with that type of problem. He's not a social issue type of leader. Short of actually addressing mental health issues in a meaningful way, which he has no money, support, or time to do... Kicking the can is likely the best he can do with this mess.
