Kentucky governor blames violent video games, movies, not guns for school shootings


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A day after a former student opened fire at a high school in Parkland, Fla., killing 17 people, Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin called for the nation to consider restrictions on violence in video games and movies, not guns.

"We need to have an honest conversation as to what should and should not be allowed in the United States as it relates to the things being put in the hands of our young people," Bevin said during a stop in Covington on Thursday.

What shouldn't be put in the hands of young people? Violent video games and movies, Bevin said. Feb. 15: Florida school shooting: At vigil, 'it eases the burden to band together'

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I'm a big believer in the First Amendment and right to free speech, but there are certain things that are so graphic as it relates to violence, and things that are so pornographic on a whole another front that we allow to pass under the guise of free speech, which arguably are," Bevin said. "But there is zero redemptive value. There is zero upside to any of this being in the public domain, let alone in the minds and hands and homes of our young people."

As the school shootings mount, so has pressure on politicians to strengthen gun control laws. 

Three weeks earlier in Bevin's own state, a 15-year-old student at a high school in western Kentucky shot and killed two people and wounded 16. 

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