Gamers association asks Biden not to blame video games for Connecticut shooting

blame mental illness and the asshole that did it, but don't mention his name that's what he wants.

And what syllogism is that? I said that if more psychopaths were to outlet their frustration with videogames there would probably be less shootings. How you came out with the deduction "all people playing videogames are psychopaths" is out of my comprehension. 

If a politician comes up with a stupid idea and that is everyday then why is it our job to try to get them to do their job? What is it congress or VP even does exactly besides make our lives harder and waste/embezzle all our money?

"While video game sales have increased, violent crime has been steadily decreasing according to FBI statistics. In 2011, video game sales increased to over $27 billion dollars and violent crimes nationwide decreased 3.8 percent from 2010. Since 2002, violent crime has decreased 15.5 percent. This is all during the time when games like Call of Duty and Halo have dominated sales."

Says it all.

Proof that vice presidents don't take actual facts and logic into consideration before making decisions.

If video games caused people to kill other people with guns, you'd have millions of deaths per year by guns, because there are millions of gamers out there.  So, to all who say video games cause gun deaths, or violence in general, please STFU.  You're wrong, and you know it.  Stop trolling.  People on drugs and alcohol, and mental defectives cause gun deaths, not the games, nor the movies.

This is why we can't have nice things!

Gun's allow paranoid people to feel secure. But ultimately the lure of a gun allows the ego to create a fallacy that they themselves wield great power. The term guns don't kill people people kill people is ultimately overlooked by the one simple fact. Guns serve no other purpose but to kill. Don't blame video games Blame fragile minds who are easily manipulated into believing the gun they hold allows them to hold a sense of godly power.But nothing is farther then the truth. The power to wield a gun comes with great responsibility and wisdom to use under the strictest of guidelines. I believe that power should be held to only a few.

We need to understand what forces made these people into killers. We need to reach out to those in similar predicaments and convince them there are better ways to break free than killing others or themselves.

I suppose there will always be a few who "just want to see the world burn." I don't see how censoring popular media will accomplish anything in their case.

At least someone important in this world isn't an idiot. Thank you Jennifer Mercurio!

Mental health issues and to some extent gun control are the main issues they should look at.But its prob cheaper to just blame games that way the arms business doesnt lose money and the idiots in the NRA are kept happy.

Here in lies the problem!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2256058/Record-sales-Virginia-gun-families-stock-weapons-Sandy-Hook-massacre.html

Fear breeds fear, with which comes greater Gun accessibility.

Obviously Guns are Big business and generate lots of 'Money', so please dont expect whatever laws they decide to pass being too ambitious.

It is so easy for these fa**ots to pick on the game devs whenever a shootout happens.... why the f**k can't you grow some b*lls and stand up against the NRA for making arms and ammunition so easily available!! Or be ignorant and pick on the easier targets like the game devs.... lets stop producing action movies as well... only romantic ones... and the world will be a shootout free world with guns in everyones hand! *sigh... that is such a beautiful thought*

if video games made bad people do what they do it would be easy to eliminate violence from real live but it is not video games. these people are evil or sometimes they are just psychos either way they need to be kept away from normal people trying to get on with or enjoy life. if video games were the cause of violence then what was Hitlers excuse for committing mass genocide?

Wow im sick of people blaming video games, e.g. can CoD teach you to shoot an assualt rifle in real life? No 

Wish people would get proof and information on this issue instead of people who most likely havnt even touched a video game going on a modern day witch hunt

Get proof, then blame.

The good old government that just loves to shift blame around. Plain and simple society, upbringing and mental illness are the major contributing factors of violence. The government should worry about those three issues before they concern themselves with video games. I get tired of the Washington blame game. 

20-30 years from now, I'm so glad our generation will be running things... My god... It makes me sick sometimes when I hear people in their 40s and 50s speak...

Violent games create a much needed outlet for a world filled with overwhelming frustration and problems. 

People get violent, it happens. (Some are literally CRAZY and take it out on a classroom full of kids)

However, having a HEALTHY outlet such as hitting a heavy bag, excersice, or oh... I don't know... Offing a whole city block of pedestrians in GTA.... 

It lets you get rid of that anger, frustration, and rage. 

I know if I couldn't pull the trigger in max payne untill I hear 3-4 clicks... I would be a much more frustrated person.... I work in fast food for F sake...

Gamers Association should be asking Biden to sit down and shut his mouth.

Can we just blame the shooter for once and be done with it?  I know everyone is still angry but why take it out on different forms of media?  It wasn't games, music, books, or movies...so can we just move on?

I's there any evidence what so ever that this kid was a gamer? we know his mum and dad were nutjobs why do they need to look for another reason.

violent video games are the reason why there was a shooting.................. and people wonder why are country is in bad shape. Stupid government people who run this country who say these idiotic quotes.

OMG what is wrong with people these days the guy was well documented as being mentally ill and unstable and who's bat crazy mother taught him how to shoot and use guns and kept them around him.

JDWolfie, I agree. Countries like UK  virtually doesn;t have mass shootings like US although there are millions of UK gamers play violent games. So violent games are not the cause. Some shooters play games, some  dont. Mental illness is the real culprit.

It's just easier to pick on violent video games because there is no constituional amendment saying you have a right to play violent video games as opposed to owning a gun. There isn't a single study that suggests violent video game influences violent behavior. Other countries have violent video games and they don't have mass shootings like we do. You really just have to look at mental health.

Americans are really stupid.

there is impact but its no worse than watching a cartoon with wiley coyote dropping an anvil on himself, thats violence why arent kids dropping anvils on eachother the world over... fact is sane people even from a very very young age know how to distinguish between fake and real...

that bein said we dont need more open conversation about game violence, its like every politician is avoiding the elephant in the room...GUNS....perhaps because its armed to the teeth and lines their wallets with incentive money, their is no attempt of even considering a ban on weaponry meant to shred other soldiers in armor, let alone kids in clothes, its another scapegoat diversionary tactic by anybody who has $ or political incentive to keep making weapons

Anyone who thinks entertainment does not influence a person's state of mind, impulses and desires is ignorant, because it absolutely does. But the concern here is not that games cause people to go out and shoot up schools. The concern is that developers continue to create more realistic and gratuitously violent games instead of innovating new concepts and original stories. 

When 8 of the top 10 games of 2012 were violent shooters, the industry is clearly showing its obsession with violence, leaving consumers little choice. Even gamers are tired of being spoon fed yet another Call of Battle - Modern Evil 27: The Assassin's Halo. 

Granted, some of these games are great, in their own context. But there's an obvious imbalance in the industry, and I think that's what Biden's meeting is about. Gamers, and parents of gamers, deserve more choices for non-violent games. And we need stricter controls in place to prevent kids from accessing M-rated titles, including better education for parents about the content of those games.