I'm glad to see that most congress people and professional researches have begun to actually do their work and make it public regarding violent video games and their influence in mass shootings (or lack thereof).
Most of the interviewees brought on to the show attested to the fact that violent video games do not cause violence. Most of the congress people on the show proclaimed that there should be no focus on this subject and that we need to focus on catching mental illness before it hits.
There was, however, one congressman who compared the entire entertainment industry to the tobacco industry by saying that we've covered our asses the same way the tobacco industry did back when it was in question.
This is the same excuse I hear from everyone who tries to use the entertainment industry as a scapegoat for these problems.
It's been far too long where people have blamed the game industry specifically for CAUSING problems of societal violence. I'm just happy that focus is being taken of this blame train and people are starting to focus on what actually causes people to THINK they want to go and kill a bunch of people.
I think the reason they brought the one congressman on who still believed in violent video games being the cause of the problem was to show that there's still a percentage of the world that has this view and that it may never go away. Though I finally see the scene changing and more people are seeing what games are and aren't doing in society.
It's been about time.
Also, I love the congressman who was blaming video games talked about a game where you can "shoot a police officer, then urinate on him, then douse him with gasoline and light him on fire". The only game I've ever heard you can do that in is Postal II and III. Postal is one of the lowest rated and least played games in the world. That wasn't the best evidence when displaying a reasonable example of overly glorified violence in video games. Just saying.
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I don't care what they say or think. They simply do not have the ability to ban violent video games. Not in the US anyways.
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So does this mean people will listen to the NRA less?