Senator Alexander: Video Games "Bigger Problem Than Guns"

I will explain this fast then : 0-How easy is to obtain fire-weapons creates a lot crimes in witch fire weapons are used
1-Guns generate more money than games
2-Guns manufacturers put money in campaigns
3-a Politicians wont bite the hand that feeds them 
3-b Politicians loves moneyTherefore if problem created by gun manufacturers selling weapons. Translate the problem to something the monkeys can believe

The point here is that neither guns nor video games are to blame for violence. I have to wonder why either would be blamed for the actions of a homicidal maniac? Clearly guns were the tool used, but the gun itself is no more responsible for the crime as a hammer is responsible for the house being built down the street. One could argue that violent video games and movies are a reflection of our culture, but there is no evidence to support the idea that a video game makes a person act out violently in the real world.

Listening to this guy really infuriates me. So over politicians using video games as a scape-goat.

some one needs to come to that man and first show him a shooter gun in one hand and see hes reaction THEN show a gun ( DON’T SHOOT THE IDIOT ) in other and guess what. you got him pissing pants, calling for mommy/security and what not.

I’m sorry but what an idiot. 

in my simple uneducated nonpolitical mind is to simply enforce the age restrictions that are already on games, if a game is NC 17 simply make it illegal to sell it to minors and then actualy enforce that law like we do now with cigarettes and alchole.  stop this nonsense of banning games, or banning violent games and just put laws in place to help stem the sell to minors.  will it hurt the industry? you bet it will, but its better then leaving it to these guys who would ban everything out right for no other reason then to have a scape goat to blame other then guns.

Ignorance is an even bigger problem 

*sigh* I swear, this is getting ignorant on a whole new level..  Nothing like politicians trying to cash in on a situation, Games didn’t cause any of this..  I mean seriously,  your really just gonna single out video games from generations of TV networks, the Movie & Music industries that have done it for years..  Then why not just punish all of entertainment as a whole? All I’m seeing from this so far is just more & more reasons for people not taking responsibility & for what there kids do..

I’ve never wanted to facepalm SOOO hard in my life…

He literally just said “…video games is a bigger problem than guns because video games affect people.” but guns don’t?! I… just… wow…

I was just watching the movie “Pirate Radio” the other night… and the old adage: nothing is new  comes to mind.  In the early 60′s parliment went after a ship anchored just over 5 miles off the shore of England that was the only broadcaster of Rock and Roll in England.  No broadcaster in England was allowed to play rock They did nothing illegal but the ministers of government were absolutely certain that rock music was also worse than guns. 

Guns don’t kill people, video games kill people . . . wait, what?  90% of our politicians are just ignorant.  The founders to our country must be rolling in their graves with what the modern day politicians have done to our country the past 20 years.  Its just sad an pathetic.  Blaming video games on anything is just stupid.

What you have to consider about his comments is that you can almost audibly hear him thinking “quick, don’t piss off the NRA, don’t piss off the NRA”. The NRA maintains there’s a violence problem in media, and as a Red senator he’ll tow that line publicly, at least enough to avoid the wrath of the NRA.

The above should not be construed to say that the Blue politicians are making any more sense in their arguments against guns (AWBs and magazine capacity limits are a joke: see, California), but both sides have their public positions at this point and they are sticking to them regardless of how absurd they might be.

The point that I think most people are missing is his conclusion, namely that we’re limited in what we can do by the first and second amendment about either “issue” (even if we wanted to do something), which sounds to me like politician-speak for “yeah…don’t expect us to do anything substantive about any of this”.

Which is roughly what we want, no?

I mean let’s just look at things realistically for a second, it certainly seems that only anti-gun bills have any traction right now federally given that there are actually bills being introduced to the house and senate with regards to guns and hearings are being held. However I haven’t seen anyone even proposing anything concrete with regards to videogames, much less writing anything down and suggesting it be law. Lot of talking, but if people were actually serious about it we would not only see hearings about violence in media, and we would also see bills, no matter how vague they might initially be.

Thus my prediction is that federally videogames is a non-starter.

But Yee? He’s worth worrying about.

Blue politicians in CA routinely thumb their nose at the courts when their laws are struck down (usually by proposing a functionally identical law the next year) so given a Blue supermajority in CA he very well might try something with regards to videogames again.

(Arnold Impersonation) BULLSHIT

Hamburgers are a bigger problem than senators. But at least they taste good. The senators just stink.