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Edited by Black Eagle X99: 1/15/2013 9:04:44 PM
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Scapegoating Video Games - The Government needs to Back Off

It looks like the video game blame is only about to intensify. [quote]The US National Rifle Association has launched a target range game for the iPhone and iPad, a month after the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy. The game, which simulates a shooting practice, has been approved for children as young as four. In open letter to Mr Biden, the Entertainment Consumers Association's vice-president Jennifer Mercurio wrote: "With the recent tragedy on everyone's minds, some people are looking for a cause and culprit other than the shooter. International Game Developers Association chairman Daniel Greenberg also said the government should not be "scapegoating" the video game industry for society's ills. "The US government did irreparable damage to the comic book industry in the 1950s by using faulty research to falsely blame juvenile delinquency and illiteracy on comic books. The comic book industry never recovered in sales to this day," he added.[/quote] [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21025626]Link to the article.[/url] Video of Joe Biden meeting with EA, Activision, Take-Two, Gamestop and others: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLMIb-oNoRM[/url] So Flood has it gone too far yet? Should we be worried at this point? They seem hell bent on blaming this on someone, and it seems that if the NRA can't be that someone it's going to be the video game industry. Just take a look at those Facebook comments from the day of the shooting. The only basis they had was that the wrongly accused brother like Mass Effect. THE WRONG MAN. The actual perpetrator did not in fact play video games at all. So where is the basis for the argument? No where.

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