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The drill is familiar: a lawmaker goes on a newsmaker show, puts on a Real Serious Face, is teed up some opportunity to tell everyone that scary scary video games bear some responsibility for America’s love affair with gun massacres.
As part of an initiative to address gun violence in the US after the Connecticut school shootings, the Vice President of the United States answered questions today in a Google Hangout. The subject of video games — and the medium’s possible correlation to violent behaviour — came up and the…