Lamar Alexander: video games is a bigger problem than guns

[ElNono]

US Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN)

I think video games is a bigger problem than guns, because video games affect people. But the First Amendment limits what we can do about video games and the Second Amendment to the Constitution limits what we can do about guns.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/01/yes-a-us-senator-just-said-games-are-a-bigger-problem-than-guns/

[Nbadan]

Just saying..


"We are free to sing or say our national symbols in any language we please, but we ought to sing and say them in our common language, English."

[Wild Cobra]

I noticed that in the senate minutes before Feinsteins bill. S. 134 is included in my post in the other thread.

From LOC/Thomas:


S.134
Latest Title: A bill to arrange for the National Academy of Sciences to study the impact of violent video games and violent video programming on children.
Sponsor: Sen Rockefeller, John D., IV [WV] (introduced 1/24/2013) Cosponsors (4)
Latest Major Action: 1/24/2013 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. COSPONSORS(4), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]: (Sort: by date)

Sen Blumenthal, Richard [CT] - 1/24/2013
Sen Coburn, Tom [OK] - 1/24/2013
Sen Heller, Dean [NV] - 1/24/2013
Sen Johanns, Mike [NE] - 1/24/2013

Will this be a useful expenditure of tax revenues, or not?

[Winehole23]

No way video games are a bigger problem than guns, and no way are they anywhere near as dangerous. I'm not sure how Sen. Alexander can say that with a straight face.

[redzero]

Yeah, just last week some kid shot up a school with a WiiU.

[baseline bum]

Wii's dangerous son; I can point my rifle and shoot in the air to reload at will.

[Winehole23]

that shit rules

[Wild Cobra]

No way video games are a bigger problem than guns, and no way are they anywhere near as dangerous. I'm not sure how Sen. Alexander can say that with a straight face.
I'm not sure I advocate this idea, but maybe the thought is that the gun is the tool. The game is the motivation.

Personally, I think it comes down to parenting, peer pressure, and other obstacles of life.

[Winehole23]

there's no accounting for what a kid might do, but sure, why not?

[Wild Cobra]

there's no accounting for what a kid might do, but sure, why not?
If a kid is going to be violent to such an extreme, he/she will be with what they think the best weapon available is. If not a gun, something else.

[boutons_deux]

If a kid is going to be violent to such an extreme, he/she will be with what they think the best weapon available is. If not a gun, something else.

So it might as well be a gun, right?

Get back to us when you find some drive-by hammer or knife throwing, or a sicko hammering 30 people to death. :lol

Guns are the easy "tool", the tool of the chickenshit who can doesn't have to do it face-to-face, hand-to-hand.

[Wild Cobra]

OK Shazbot. Since guns are more effective at killing, is that why we should get rid of them? Wouldn't it be better to address the root problem? Guns are not the problem. They are an effective tool.

There are more automobile deaths each year than gun deaths. Do you advocate we ban cars?

[boutons_deux]

America saturated, polluted with 100M+ guns IS THE ROOT PROBLEM

[diego]

problem is obviously the video games, just look at japan and korea.

[Oh, Gee!!]

But the First Amendment limits what we can do about video games and the Second Amendment to the Constitution limits what we can do about guns.


Well, I'm stumped then. :shrugs

[coyotes_geek]

Lamar is right. Shit like this didn't happen when Pong was the only video game around. WE NEED TO GET GUNS OUT OF VIDEO GAMES!!!!!

[Oh, Gee!!]

Lamar is right. Shit like this didn't happen when Pong was the only video game around. WE NEED TO GET GUNS OUT OF VIDEO GAMES!!!!!

what about Max Payne's 2nd Amendment rights?

[TeyshaBlue]

Lamar is right. Shit like this didn't happen when Pong was the only video game around. WE NEED TO GET GUNS OUT OF VIDEO GAMES!!!!!

Over looked factoid: Homocide by paddles was up 73% in 1973.

[coyotes_geek]

what about Max Payne's 2nd Amendment rights?

That mass murderer belongs in video game prison.

[coyotes_geek]

Over looked factoid: Homocide by paddles was up 73% in 1973.

No worries. Just pass a law making it illegal to kill people. Problem solved.

[TeyshaBlue]

No worries. Just pass a law making it illegal to kill people. Problem solved.

Another overlooked factoid: Dinosaurs used to love to play Asteroids.

Do the math.

[coyotes_geek]

Another overlooked factoid: Dinosaurs used to love to play Asteroids.

Do the math.

Shields or hyperspace?

[ElNono]

Over looked factoid: Homocide by paddles was up 73% in 1973.

ahhh... the good old times when there was no tv, no video games and no gun crimes...

[TeyshaBlue]

I'm pretty sure they hypered into an asteroid. Early Mammals secretly worshipped the mysterious goddess Hyperspace.

[coyotes_geek]

I'm pretty sure they hypered into an asteroid. Early Mammals secretly worshipped the mysterious goddess Hyperspace.

Wow. I guess the goddess Hyperspace must have been really pissed about the dinosaur's stance on gay marriage.

[hater]

look at the bright side liberals, he is actually agreeing guns are a problem. a smaller problem than a few pixels dancing on a screen, but still a problem :lol

[boutons_deux]

Lamar is right. Shit like this didn't happen when Pong was the only video game around. WE NEED TO GET GUNS OUT OF VIDEO GAMES!!!!!

NRA was taken over by murderer from TX and converted to a marketing shill for the gun industry in 1977, post pong.

[TeyshaBlue]

:lmao:lmao:lmao:lmao:lmao:lmao

[boutons_deux]

:lmao:lmao:lmao:lmao:lmao:lmao

I posted the history here before. Do you know how to google?

[TeyshaBlue]

Shup, coward. We were all having a good time bashing the logic behind video games and gun crimes and you come in and shit all over yourself.

As if we were even remotely interested in what you had to say about pong.:lmao:lmao:lmao

[boutons_deux]

Shup, coward. We were all having a good time bashing the logic behind video games and gun crimes and you come in and shit all over yourself.

As if we were even remotely interested in what you had to say about pong.:lmao:lmao:lmao

I didn't introduce pong here, so GFY.

here, read and weep, Missy Blue

http://www.meetthenra.org/sites/nra.richirdevel.com/files/imagecache/profile-image/harloncarter1.jpg

http://www.meetthenra.org/nra-member/Harlon%20Carter

and since when does TB :lol speak for "we", or are you referring to yourself in the Royal We.

We, The Great Boutons, are Greatly Amused :lol

[coyotes_geek]

NRA was taken over by murderer from TX and converted to a marketing shill for the gun industry in 1977, post pong.

How fascinating.

[TeyshaBlue]

I've already forgotten more about the NRA than your RSS feed can provide.

Run along, coward.

[TeyshaBlue]

How fascinating.

Indeed. http://homerecording.com/bbs/images/smilies/facepalm.gif

[boutons_deux]

So please tell your very probably exonerating history of Saint Harlan Carter. I'm sure it's "fascinating"

[TeyshaBlue]

We already know bout Carter. Don't need a confirmation bias generator to tell us. lol coward.

[TeyshaBlue]

Besides, the OP is about Lamar Alexander and his nutty take. Figures you'd introduce carter to the thread.

[boutons_deux]

We already know bout Carter. Don't need a confirmation bias generator to tell us. lol coward.

TB :lol hyper terse and uninformative, as always. Tell us all about NRA Saint Harlan Carter, patron saint of Mexican murderers.

[TeyshaBlue]

TB :lol hyper terse and uninformative, as always. Tell us all about NRA Saint Harlan Carter, patron saint of Mexican murderers.


We already know bout Carter. Don't need a confirmation bias generator to tell us. lol coward.

How hard is this for you to understand? We already know about Carter. Go move the goalposts somewhere else, coward.

[TeyshaBlue]

When I'm informative, you run away like the little bitch you are, coward. See ya in the Oil Boom thread.:lmao:lmao:lmao:lmao:lmao

[boutons_deux]

How hard is this for you to understand? We already know about Carter. Go move the goalposts somewhere else, coward.

I bet nearly nobody here understands how murderer Carter took over the NRA and totally changed its mission to shilling for the gun industry.

[boutons_deux]

When I'm informative, you run away like the little bitch you are, coward. See ya in the Oil Boom thread.:lmao:lmao:lmao:lmao:lmao

Why do you keep referrring to the oil boom thread where I bitch slapped you silly, you silly bitch

[TeyshaBlue]

lol delusional bot.
lol coward.
I'm sure you thought you bitch slapped yourself in the SD thread.:lmao:lmao

[boutons_deux]

Sen. Alexander: Senate Republicans Should Be Able To Confirm No One To Any Job

TODD: You can hold up cabinet appointments for four years?

ALEXANDER: It could be two years, yeah. Of course it could. . . . The president has to keep sending people until he finds someone who can gain the support of the senate.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/02/01/1523731/sen-alexander-senate-republicans-should-be-able-to-confirm-no-one-to-any-job/

Fucking Confederates, nothing but regressive, obstructionist assholes.