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School Shooting Prompts Legislation To Study Violent Video Games
New submitter seepho writes "Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) has introduced a bill directing the National Academy of Sciences to lead an investigation to determine what impact violent video games have on children. Senator Rockefeller commented, 'Recent court decisions demonstrate that some people still do not get it. They believe that violent video games are no more dangerous to young minds than classic literature or Saturday morning cartoons. Parents, pediatricians, and psychologists know better. These court decisions show we need to do more and explore ways Congress can lay additional groundwork on this issue. This report will be a critical resource in this process.'"
This legislation was prompted by reports that Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza was a gamer. A draft of the bill is available online.
Seeing the amount of hate spewed by the so call religious right lately, I have SERIOUS doubts that is the problem.
The mental illness is not the problem.
There are mentally ill people all over the world. They don't go around shooting up classrooms and theaters.
The GUN is the problem.
Recently a mentally ill man in china went on a knife rampage. He sliced 19 people in a school. No one died. Horrible crime. But no one died (at least from what I read)
If he had had a gun, there would have been 19 dead or more.
The GUN is the problem.
Less guns - less gun violence. Pretty simple.