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Video games are not to blame for the Torreón shooting

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19/01/2020 |10:40
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Video games are not to blame for the Torreón shooting

Yesterday in Reynosa, Rodolfo González Valderrama , the head of Radio, Television and Cinematography Board ( RTC ), said that after the shooting at the Cervantes school , they will reclassify over 2 million video games to prevent minors from accessing violent content . Rodolfo González doesn’t know that video games have been classified this way since 1994 . Moreover, we’ve been told that the theory about the influence these games have on real-life is outdated and that there is no scientific evidence that links both. It is easier to blame video games than and social abandonment .

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