“I’m hearing more and more people say the level of violence on video games is really shaping young people’s thoughts.” Since the Parkland shooting, there hasn’t been much movement on gun control in DC. Today, President Trump is convening a group of videogame makers and their harshest critics. (I worry that some videogames are too violent for kids. But it often takes longer to level up to a powerful fake gun in a game than it takes to buy an AR-15 in real life.)

+ The long history of blaming video games for mass violence.

+ Vox: The gun control debate in Congress is no longer about guns.

+ “Dragonman’s oft-stated argument boils down to this: He doesn’t control what people do with the weapons once they leave Dragonland any more than the soda company controls how much soda you drink, or the cigarette company controls the cigarettes you smoke.” There’s been a lot of focus on big chain stores like Dick’s and Wal-mart. But the gun sales story often plays out at indie stores. From GQ, meet Dragonman, the Man Who Sells People-Hunting Guns. “Dragonman and his employees act as a kind of judge and jury, weighing whether you’re in your right mind and whether he, Dragonman, is going to sell you one of the guns off his wall, or bump stocks or flamethrowers.”