Biden, like Trump, once targeted violent video games

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In citing violent video games as a potential root cause of mass shootings like the ones in Ohio and Texas over the weekend, President Trump may have an unexpected ally — Joe Biden.

“This includes the gruesome and grisly computer games that are now commonplace,” Trump said Monday morning, in remarks after mass shootings in El Paso Texas on Saturday claimed 20 lives, and killed nine people in Dayton, Ohio. “It is too easy today for troubled youth to surround themselves with a culture that celebrates violence.”

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