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Bush orders team to probe games and guns |
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President George W. Bush organized key members of his cabinet into a team which seeks to find facts which could shed light on in the wake of the vicious shootings at Virginia Tech which saw the death of 33 people. Among the areas being looked at is videogames."One could blame guns. One could blame access to the media. One could blame video games," said Utah governor Jon Huntsman, as he tried to identify some of the possible factors contributing to the growing number of violent incidents involving the youth.
The link between violence and videogames first came to prominence in the aftermath of Colorado's Columbine shootings where two students went on a rampage, killing teachers and classmates in the process. The stigma was further magnified as activist groups raised an outcry against violent games such as the Grand Theft Auto series, Thrill Kill and several other first-person shooters.
Lawyer Jack Thompson upped the ante on the "crusade" against violent games by aiding state legislators create laws that sanction violent games, filing lawsuits against game companies, and lately, by suing game blogs that are critical of his actions.
Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt visited Utah lately to convene with local officials regarding the issues surrounding violence among the younger demographic. Utah was one of the sites selected because a similar shooting incident involving a Bosnian immigrant occurred in Salt Lake City recently. Utah also has one of the strictest gun laws in America, which officials say could be a model for a broader policy.
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tom and jerry...
and a whole list of other cartoons that go way back.
but i guess watching elmer fudd blowing daffy duck's head off with a shot gun is ok?
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Talk about hippocrates at Capitol hill....
What's Obama's stance on this topic? Maybe he'll be a gaming friendly president???
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"Who ever made up this World War II is a master of storytelling."
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Looking at the statistics, there are only two reasonably assumptions: that video games have no effect at all on crime rates, or video games cause the rates to go down. Any other conclusion would be a perversion of the available evidence, and could only be seen as political opportunism.
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I mean really, some mentally deficient cretin out there see's something like this idiot at Virginia Tech. He's now A) very very famous, and B) by taking his own life, avoided the consequences.
It's basic psychology. This whole phenomena was portrayed in Oliver Stone's "Natural Born Killers"... And yet it seems no bugger has learnt a damn thing.
Turn these sickos into celebrities, you'll just breed more of them.
I'm sure that any government nonsense in this will totally ignore the fact the loser at VT didn't play video games.
Of course it's a bit rich when the government starts going on about violent games, when "America's Army" is a violent videogame. Wonder if they'll ban their own game?
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man, im really feeling sorry for Utah right now.
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