Ocasio-Cortez Tells Off Kevin McCarthy: Blame White Supremacy, Not Video Games

The freshman lawmaker called out the House minority leader for blaming video games after two mass shootings.
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Sunday suggested that video games are to blame for mass shootings.

And Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) wasn’t having it.

Video games “dehumanize individuals to have a game of shooting individuals and others,” McCarthy said on Fox News shortly after mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, left a combined total of at least 31 people dead.

“When you look at these photos of how [the El Paso shooting] took place, you can see the actions within video games and others,” McCarthy said.

But Ocasio-Cortez said the real problem is white supremacy, and argued that it's an issue Republicans won’t address because that would mean taking on part of their base:

The suspected gunman in El Paso is a white man who reportedly shared a white supremacist manifesto online before the shooting. The hate-filled document attacked immigrants, claiming there is a “Hispanic invasion of Texas.”

President Donald Trump has also called immigration an “invasion,” including in his campaign ads on Facebook.

Ocasio-Cortez shared a tweet showing some of those ads:

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