"Video games are a bigger problem then guns, because video games affect people"

**BadKarma** · 2013-01-30 15:50

http://kotaku.com/5980247/video-game...ual-us-senator

Well this is the new golden standard

**Nephlite** · 2013-01-30 15:53

Holy. Shit.

Whelp, guess I'm gonna have to teach my kids about firearms because they don't affect people.

**Insanecyclone** · 2013-01-30 15:55

I sure want to get up and do something after playing Euro Truck Simulator 2.

**Thiefami** · 2013-01-30 15:55

I doubt this will go anywhere, but on the off chance it does it will inevitably come down to freedom of expression.

**Viq** · 2013-01-30 15:55

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**GoggleHead** · 2013-01-30 15:57

How do these people get elected?

**Azull** · 2013-01-30 15:58

You can have my controller when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

**ronin sparthos** · 2013-01-30 16:06

Where is the video game equivalent of the NRA so I can make some knee-jerk donations to their cause? My right to the pursuit of happiness shall not be infringed! IF I WANT TO BLOW SOME HOOKERS HEAD OFF IN GTAV I DARE SOMEONE IN WASHINGTON TO TRY AND STOP ME.

1995 WILL HAPPEN AGAIN IF SOMEONE TRIES TO TAKE MY M RATED GAMES.

Wait.. I'm over 18 years old so I give about as many fucks regarding game ratings as I do about 15 year olds who try to solicit me to buy booze for them.

Someone on BG already said it best - it'll keep the youngfags off online games they aren't supposed to be playing and it'll make my life online that much more peaceful... till I find out that some 35 year old man is screaming into his mic like a 15 year old about a death in a FPS.

**Lucavi** · 2013-01-30 16:10

Originally Posted by GoggleHead

How do these people get elected?

Old white people and paranoid white mothers elect them in. How else?

**Qalbert** · 2013-01-30 16:12

there's far more potential political fuckery than just the ratings system.

**BadKarma** · 2013-01-30 16:13

This motherfucker looks like hes related to Sloth from the goonies

**shidobu** · 2013-01-30 16:14

old people really hate video games don't they..

**ronin sparthos** · 2013-01-30 16:15

Originally Posted by shidobu

old people really hate video games don't they..

They're close to a game over and they're all out of quarters.

**shidobu** · 2013-01-30 16:20

Originally Posted by ronin sparthos

They're close to a game over and they're all out of quarters.

http://media.tested.com/uploads/0/68...iiii_super.png

**Melena** · 2013-01-30 16:20

Originally Posted by ronin sparthos

They're close to a game over and they're all out of quarters.

Keep dreaming. First it was comic books, then TV, then Movies, then Rap Music. Eventually it will be something else to hate. Anything to keep the sheep in line.

**archibaldcrane** · 2013-01-30 16:20

Originally Posted by Qalbert

there's far more potential political fuckery than just the ratings system.

Not really, just like with gun control the Supreme Court has set strict interpretations about how much you can restrict them. You can't ban handguns even in the murder capital of the country because of the 2nd amendment, and you can't prosecute vendors even for selling M-rated games to 12 year olds because of the 1st amendment. It's already been tried and shot down.

I'm just glad the guy in the video recognizes this, because y'all are getting more hysterical than Alabama Jim after Sandy Hook.

**ronin sparthos** · 2013-01-30 16:24

Originally Posted by archibaldcrane

Not really, just like with gun control the Supreme Court has set strict interpretations about how much you can restrict them. You can't ban handguns even in the murder capital of the country because of the 2nd amendment, and you can't prosecute vendors even for selling M-rated games to 12 year olds because of the 1st amendment. It's already been tried and shot down.

I'm just glad the guy in the video recognizes this, because y'all are getting more hysterical than Alabama Jim after Sandy Hook.

Everyone has an inner Alex Jones waiting to froth at the mouth about patriots, chemtrails and glubbalists.

**Pirian** · 2013-01-30 17:36

Originally Posted by Zealot

I wrote him a letter.

Bitches love letters.

**archibaldcrane** · 2013-01-30 17:45

After Obama laid out his gun control proposals, I found the closest republican house member to me (way the fuck out in riverside or some shit) and wrote him a letter expressing support as a gun owner for a universal background check requirement for all gun purchases.

Had to like, google-maps a fake address and shit to show I was in his district (online letter) but yeah.

Haven't heard shit back.

**Ashmada** · 2013-01-31 06:45

I just tested this guy's hypothesis: first, I threw a "Wonderboy 3: The Dragon's Trap" cartridge (yes, I went old school on him!) at a guy, then I shot him.

Hypothesis half-verified: the cartridge affected him in a big way; triggering a violent reaction; the gunshot, on the other hand, did have an effect on the test subject... but it was a soothing effect!
In light of those findings:
1. We should collectively apologise to Jack Thompson right now: videogames do beget violence.
2. We should reword the initial statement: "Video games are a bigger problem than guns, because video games affect people negatively."

Also, for the sake of this batch of puppies I'm going to cleave in half, can someone please fix the title?

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