Viral Quote Falsely Attributed to McCarthy
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Social media posts erroneously attribute a quote to House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy. He didn’t say that “there are no mass shootings in Japan because there are no video games there.”
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In the days after the back-to-back mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, some politicians returned attention to the idea that violent video games may contribute to such attacks — which has not been established by research.
Notably, Kevin McCarthy on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo” on Aug. 4 and discussed what he called “video games that dehumanize individuals to have a game of shooting individuals and others.”
