Video games a 'bigger problem than guns' says senator

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it must be true, if HE says it !

FACT

Says the republican. Republicans are pro gun and war. lol

@Rocket2Uranus  

Couldn't have put it better myself. 

Whoa! What's that game where you can slam someone's head into a table saw?!

I just did my own research.

"dumb senators bigger problems than video games"

LOL.  it's funny how so many senators are trying to find a scapegoat 

HERP DERP! GUNS ARE EVIL!
HERP DEPR! VIDEO GAMES ARE EVIL!

I blame dumbasses in senate who waste tax payer money.  

So senators would rather blame the video game industry before they would admit these people were just mentally disturbed individuals who had manage to commit some evil shit before anyone was able to raise any alarms?  

maybe instead of finding a scapegoat and pointing fingers at NRA or Video Game Industry, perhaps they should really look into how people can see the signs of someone becoming mentally unstable and what people should do if they suspect someone of being crazy.

They say we learn from our mistake....guess the U.S.A. will just never learn

This guy has got to be the most ignorant, repulsively stupid and useless politician in the history of the world.

I pity the United States for even allowing a man like this a job as senator. You guys need to revolt, get rid of clowns like this guy and enact some serious gun control. The more your congress keeps talking about violent games and movies, while continuing to accept money from gun lobbyists, the longer that guns remain easy to possess, the longer your NRA and other clowns continue to parade this bullshit "right to bear arms", the more young and innocent people will die.

 Every time a school or theater gets shot up, people like this stupid senator are at fault. Sitting on his hands doing nothing to solve an ongoing national crisis, and blaming an entertainment medium to divert attention from the fact that America's gun-loving culture is the root of the problem.

I'm so grateful I live in a nation where there is no "right to bear arms". I wish all you folks in the USA can someday have the same. And public healthcare. And banking regulations. And actual democratic elections instead of the farce you guys currently roll out every four years. Overthrow these bastards. You deserve better.

its easier to get a  gun than a drivers licence.... 

Applying for jobs means multiple background checks and drug tests......

obtaining a gun...."yo you got a credit card? wait 72 hours while we search to see if you have armed robbery in your background".

I shouldn't have to take a learners permit, 100 hours of supervised driving....a drivers test, and a vision test, and a drivers written test...just to operate a vehicle! When i could easily get a gun in 2 days and steal a car myself. 

PRIORITIES. video games are CDs, like a book....its an inanimate object incapable of doing harm unless your process the info and DECIDE FOR YOURSELF to do harm to others.

Guns.... just touch it with your finger and hope no one accidentally gets hurt. 

"just point, and squeeze the trigger, its simple!"

Ive NEVER heard of a video game lobbyist paying off senators.... Greed drives our politics, not OBAMA not BUSH, not any party in particular. GREED from individual sectors trying to free up their restrictions to make profits. Pay off a senator....get them to blame video games, simple smoke n mirrors tactics. Except with lots of Ca$h and the cost of human lives/ well being

I just played Doom, Far Cry, Bulletstorm, all the Call of Dutys, and Crysis 1 & 2... MUST SHOOT PEOPLE... MUST GO ON RAMPAGE...

these ppl obviously have mental health issues. never played a game where u go to school and randomly start shooting ppl. goverment should focus there attention on more important issues 

OMG where is America going? I live in Portugal (an european country) and I never heard of a mass-shooting. Why? Because here getting a weapon is almost impossible, with all the background checks, the fees you have to pay to have a license to bear a weapon and so on. I have never touched a weapon myself and I am 26 years old. As far as videogames are concerned there's almost no control whatsoever. So why do you refuse to see the truth? I think the problem is that americans are obsessed with weapons.

Yeah.... Forget about that little thing called the current economy in America. 1%ers really do need to focus on more interesting things, as that obviously is no concern for them...nor spending time seeking solutions to the real issues but grandstanding for reelection purposes to stay in that percentage ranking.

Another dumbass... Go to a different country if you have a problem with the amendments. 

So, you play bloody and violent movies in prime time on every open TV channel for decades. You sell auto weapons on every corner shop, literally on every neighbourhood, to anyone with a ID card. And then your rulers tell you that videogames are to blame, not the shops, not the movies, not the laws. Games. And then, you wonder why the rest of the world says americans are dumb.

Gun lobbys trying to divert the public opinion by blaming videogames. What is sad, is to see polititians who were supposed to have the best interest of the people, defending guns despite everything.

The Red neck of the year award winner Tennessee senator Lamar "Lame" Alexander:
"Gun don't kill people, game kill people!!!"

Yeah and the purpose of the Move controller is just as sinister.

where is the fucking evidence that adam played doom in the 90s. WHERE THE FUCK IS IT?

Yea... he condemns games because he's got a house full of guns. 

Seems like your amendment is is having some troubles there keeping your people save, kids killing kid with gun that got driven mad by violant computer games.

Sounds like you needs some advice:

Dont think the "to bare arms" amendment was made with 'fully automatic assault rifles in every home' in mind. 

And Fucking with my games is breaking the second amendment you pig.

These politician just do not learn....now it's real sad because all they want is attention because they feel neglected in the public's eye.

As Charlton Heston would say, " From my cold dead hands!"

How about that latest tragedy where the 19 year old kills her brother with a gun accidentally while posing for a facebook profile picture?  Is that simply poor gun control or do you blame video games for that too?

I love how easy it is for the National Rifle Association to call out video games when in a video game you're using "rifles"! And how could a game give someone false courage but things like music, with lyrics of men sometimes threatening to kill someone they have "beef" with, and movies not, where in a movie you can see a man take on an entire army by himself and that doesn't give people a "false sense of courage" . A video game is a virtual representation of something that is usually not possible and fake. Rated M games are technically for adults which are supposed to be able to handle themselves. Now that "one" man, one anomaly in a world where thousands die a day from guns, decided to shot up an elementary school people just have to point their greedy,naive pudgy fingers at my place of Zen, video games, which at there core are still basic . So let me conclude by exuberantly expressing my patriotic homage of the First Amendment by saying, CHOKE ON A BIG ONE NRA and you disgrace of a New Jerseyian Republican.

Gun violence, and school shootings both predate video games. So the real issue here is how uneducated our governments leaders are on the subject matter, and how quickly they will jump on a bandwagon with little to no knowledge just to keep in the lime light for the voters. Hmmm. Epic fail on the part of the politicians.

SO TRUE! Playing a video game has a more bigger impact on a person than a bullet to their skull!

And old-racist-white republicans are a bigger problem than video games.

Wow. The NRA must really pay their stooges in DC well to spout off BS statements like that. And I just realized what "NRA" really stands for: No Responsibility Assumed.

I like how a famous incident happens where people can get attention and everyone thinks they're a psychologist.

well senators in this country are a bigger problem then guns and violence combined, but you dont see anyone doing anything about that in our lifetime do you?

I'll tell you what the real problem is.. his virginity

no guns nor videogames are the problem here, it's the person itself....

At what point can a politician start thinking for themselves? There is at this point no solid evidence of it leading to violence, so why say anything?

He's right though, after playing Ni No Kuni, i felt an overwhelming urge to grab the uzi and the 12 gauge and head into town.

What a freaking idiot.

It's disgusting how these coldhearted bastards use these horrible tragedies to increase their own popularity.

what an idoit. guns kill people, video games entertain people. yeah real problem people being entertained

This knee jerk reaction a great portion us gamers are having is appalling. When something opposes something we enjoy, we are quickly jumping on the defense. "Games aren't the problems, it's guns. This guy is an idiot." etc. etc. Let's do some assessing of our own arguments and not shift the blame. Games could very well be a factor. They are not, however, even close to the biggest factor. Also, blaming guns makes you no better than this man. Just like him, you make an invalid point that is not substantiated by any objective evidence. In turn, making yourself look as foolish as this man.

the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting will definitely not have happened if the shooter DIDN'T HAVE ACCESS TO GUNS.

Could anyone tell me if this guy is serious? SO VIDEO GAMES ARE WORSE THAN GUNS. 'facepalm'. I bet he was paid by the gun lobby to say this. Last i checked the mother took her children out for SHOOTING. Did his mum get influenced  by video games.? Where do these people get their ideas from? Why don't we blame everything except the main problem? Did video games cause the gunman mental issues?