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Video games are not the problem, the gun fetishism of american society is.
I get what you're saying, but in the case of the games in question, it's a bit of a chicken-and-egg situation, don't you agree? Get them while they're young and impressionable?
Other countries also have Call of Duty, but not such a big problem with mass shootings. So I don't think its that easy. I think it is more interesting, what the NRA is doing. Such a big and powerful lobby organization should have way more influence, than a video game series.
As I mentioned to the other replier, other countries don't have the mass promotion of gun violence coupled with the ready access to an incredible variety of firearms.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/249398/lobbying-expenditures-of-the-national-rifle-associaction-in-the-united-states/
You mean the organization that is basically bankrupt and at it's peak spent 5million dollars over a year lobbying? You think they have more influence then a "video game series" that is owned by a company that has around 25billion in assets?
https://investor.activision.com/static-files/d7b4f08d-213b-4bd5-a41b-7497baa9c106