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 Cons ution limits what we can do about guns.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/0...lem-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 le: 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 COSPONSORS(4), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]: (Sort: by date)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 er, 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 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.

Guns are the easy "tool", the tool of the chicken 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 Cons ution limits what we can do about guns.

Well, I'm stumped then. :shrugs

[coyotes_geek]

Lamar is right. 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. 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. 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: cide 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: cide 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: cide 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.