Violent Video Games – Again
A few weeks ago, there was horrible incident in Newtown, Connecticut. If you haven’t heard about the Sandy Hook shooting, it’s about time to start. It’s horrible, I won’t say it’s not. And with the internet, all these incidents seem close to home. That is not my problem. My problem is that the blame for the psychopath is falling to games again.
A senator, a word which seems to mean less nowadays, proposes, quite subtly, I’ll say, a bill to make the National Academy of Science to study the effect of violent video games on real world violence (available online). Which is something that has never been done before, of course. And they keep doing this, instead of looking at gun laws or education or mental health.
And the most annoying thing, the NRA, the fscking NRA, is condemning violent video games as the cause of the shooting. In plain English, the organisation who carves it on their flag the freedom to put weapons in every hand that wants one is saying that mass murders and shootings are because of violent video games.
Only in America.
At least one guy acquired some sense.
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