'Video games a bigger problem than guns' - US senator

Gun control and video games continue to headline debates in the US. Today, a US senator has labelled video games "a bigger problem" than owning a real gun.

"I think video games is [sic] a bigger problem than guns, because video games affect people," United States Senator Lamar Alexander told US news service MSNBC.

"But the First Amendment limits what we can do about video games and the Second Amendment to the Constitution limits what we can do about guns," Alexander added.

Damn that Constitution allowing you to have fun and protecting your right to shoot another man in the face!

By Ben Salter

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Marge K:24479 31/01/2013

Before anyone else quotes it:

I think video games is [sic] a bigger problem than guns, because video games affect people

How is so much ignorance possible? [Rage]

iSR K:12100 31/01/2013

Affect people how?

Probably thinks pong is still big.

gdmatt K:66621 31/01/2013

"Video games affect people"

Guns don't? @_@

Cade606 K:240 31/01/2013

haha they know nothing about games and people xD

xxLCr0wxx K:6495 31/01/2013

oh ****en hell not this again

Zenda K:62 31/01/2013

Tbh I've had enough. Let em slander games all they want- the second people stop paying attention to it will be the moment they'll have to start scapegoating something else.
limit all you want guys - the black market will simply prosper off your stupidity, and the modding community will fix the rest.
All the politicians/senators etc are doing is proving how detached they are from the working class and showing that all they can truly do is fearmonger - all my opinion of course.

The_Boss K:1922 31/01/2013

I think what he meant is video games effect people psychologically more than a owning a gun.
Owning a gun doesn't make effect a person because its a tool, it's how the person lifestyle that effects him more damaging for example a person who plays video games all the time could effect their health, financially and also effect people close to them. I've use to play a lot of games in the past and that effected my lifestyle like my physical n mental health, studies n social life, then my dad introduced me in sport shooting and now I play less games, my health and performance in school improved.

Many will disagree but please respect my opinion and don't reply with hostility.

Pact K:21107 31/01/2013

So how much of this senator's money came from the NRA?

SlappyWag K:2274 31/01/2013

[Facepalm] FFS. Can we blame politicians for mental illness because they affect everyone with their ****ing ridiculous and retarded statements?

Xoldelpaso K:710 31/01/2013

my brain hurts how can people be so stupid its not the video games its the people that play them or not who already have something wrong with them like the guy who shot up the theater he didn't just watch batman and say I want to be a killer he would of had some sort of past trauma its neither games guns or movies its the gun laws over there that give people who should not be aloud to have or be near weapons of any kind.

I get what your saying too The_Boss I'm glad to hear your doing better

Tano K:298781 31/01/2013

SlappyWag said: FFS. Can we blame politicians for mental illness because they affect everyone with their ****ing ridiculous and retarded statements?

We do. We vote them out :P

SlappyWag K:2274 31/01/2013

Beta said:
SlappyWag said: FFS. Can we blame politicians for mental illness because they affect everyone with their ****ing ridiculous and retarded statements?

We do. We vote them out

But the damage is done... =D

Leasha K:64308 31/01/2013

I can't even comment on this...

I love how people with these outrageous views are responsible for our laws.

[Facepalm]

Jules1979 K:183 31/01/2013

It's great that you live a more balanced life now. Games can affect some people. But they don't turn ppl into killers. Having easy acess to high powered rifles and possible psychological problems is more likely the problem.

stonecold K:28650 31/01/2013

America you have failed [Facepalm] :D

Camp3rDown K:19805 31/01/2013

The_Boss said: I think what he meant is video games effect people psychologically more than a owning a gun.
Owning a gun doesn't make effect a person because its a tool, it's how the person lifestyle that effects him more damaging for example a person who plays video games all the time could effect their health, financially and also effect people close to them. I've use to play a lot of games in the past and that effected my lifestyle like my physical n mental health, studies n social life, then my dad introduced me in sport shooting and now I play less games, my health and performance in school improved.
Many will disagree but please respect my opinion and don't reply with hostility.

I think in saying that though, if you to were play with your guns all the time as you did your videogames, surely it would have the "affect" on you.

gammaray13 K:4955 31/01/2013

yeah i done a sport as well called Boxing, ever heard of it, yeah well i had to give it up as it affected my lifestyle in a way that i wanted to go around and fight with everyone that gave me the shits, now i play game's and i have heaps of mates online that i have a great time with playing games laughing and just general fun, i boxed for 17 years and during that time i was a very angry young man so for me im glad i discovered games to escape the mundane every day life, P S lets just remember 1 thing Guns Kill people not Games ;)

M@ndyz K:207555 31/01/2013

gammaray13 said: yeah i done a sport as well called Boxing, ever heard of it, yeah well i had to give it up as it affected my lifestyle in a way that i wanted to go around and fight with everyone that gave me the shits, now i play game's and i have heaps of mates online that i have a great time with playing games laughing and just general fun, i boxed for 17 years and during that time i was a very angry young man so for me im glad i discovered games to escape the mundane every day life, P S lets just remember 1 thing Guns Kill people not Games

amen ^_^

The_Boss K:1922 31/01/2013

Camp3rDown said:
The_Boss said: I think what he meant is video games effect people psychologically more than a owning a gun.
Owning a gun doesn't make effect a person because its a tool, it's how the person lifestyle that effects him more damaging for example a person who plays video games all the time could effect their health, financially and also effect people close to them. I've use to play a lot of games in the past and that effected my lifestyle like my physical n mental health, studies n social life, then my dad introduced me in sport shooting and now I play less games, my health and performance in school improved.
Many will disagree but please respect my opinion and don't reply with hostility.

I think in saying that though, if you to were play with your guns all the time as you did your videogames, surely it would have the "affect" on you.

when I played too much Video games it affected me negatively but when I took up doing more sports like rifle and skeet shooting then my lifestyle improve. I only use my guns for sports and they are locked up in my local gun range.

gammaray13 said: yeah i done a sport as well called Boxing, ever heard of it, yeah well i had to give it up as it affected my lifestyle in a way that i wanted to go around and fight with everyone that gave me the shits, now i play game's and i have heaps of mates online that i have a great time with playing games laughing and just general fun, i boxed for 17 years and during that time i was a very angry young man so for me im glad i discovered games to escape the mundane every day life, P S lets just remember 1 thing Guns Kill people not Games

I've done martial arts (karate, judo and Krav Maga) in my past but it didn't make me a aggressive person it actually made me more less aggressive and never used the lessons I've learned from it to anyone. :)

Video games can effect people negative or positive depending how they use it for me I play it because I enjoy the story, challenge and fun that comes with it and guns do kill people but only if it was used by a crazy person.

Mike2DMaxx4 K:20802 31/01/2013

I reckon it's time to protest. No wait that's encouraged by video games. Then it's time to send a letter. But damn, you can't do that cause it happens in a games too. That's alright I will just go shoot someone, that'll solve everything won't it. You know why? Cause the government will get majority of the money for that.
Thieves!

This is just total BS, they just point the finger yet don't take notice of what's going on around them. I hope all this money they are putting into this survey pays off.

A_Toaster K:314 31/01/2013

Because we were all so peaceful before video games came along

Rieper69 K:14 01/02/2013

Yeah um I play Hitman all the time, that doesn't influence me to shave my head bald get a tattoo of a barcode on the back if my head and sneak around in a $5000 suit killing people. You know why? Coz I can already do that fictionally I don't need the real life experience.

Rieper69 K:14 01/02/2013

A_Toaster said: Because we were all so peaceful before video games came along

Bullshit. Try saying that to the Nazis in World War 2

Viper593 K:1540 01/02/2013

Yes because my PC went into a school and killed everyone...
Americans...........

TrblyXlent K:10388 01/02/2013

Because I'm totally gonna kill someone with an Xbox -_-

Aeschylus K:4739 01/02/2013

old Senators bribed by gun lobbyists are more dangerous then any video game.

Gryllis K:283479 01/02/2013

TrblyXlent said: Because I'm totally gonna kill someone with an Xbox

Cause of death: Xbox to the face.

The_Boss K:1922 01/02/2013

Ben said:
TrblyXlent said: Because I'm totally gonna kill someone with an Xbox

Cause of death: Xbox to the face.

That be a good plot for CSI new episode.

Jakerz K:1176 03/02/2013

Well when it comes to loading a game or loading a gun...

Guyver K:354132 03/02/2013

Marge said: Before anyone else quotes it:

I think video games is [sic] a bigger problem than guns, because video games affect people

How is so much ignorance possible?

Yep because bullets don't do shit in his book.

What is wrong with this old fossil? Still stuck in his old ways thinking it's the old west.

TrblyXlent K:10388 03/02/2013

The_Boss said:
Ben said:
TrblyXlent said: Because I'm totally gonna kill someone with an Xbox

Cause of death: Xbox to the face.

That be a good plot for CSI new episode.

Someone PM me when it gets included in a crime show ^_^

Mobe1969 K:3347 03/02/2013

It's true you know. I've been shot a lot of times in games, but never in real life...

(Joke)

sjt333 K:197664 03/02/2013

TrblyXlent said: Because I'm totally gonna kill someone with an Xbox

well blunt force trauma can kill someone

whaling K:15125 03/02/2013

Mobe1969 said: It's true you know. I've been shot a lot of times in games, but never in real life...
(Joke)

So you have been shot in real life?

Pilkingbod K:88467 03/02/2013

whaling said:
Mobe1969 said: It's true you know. I've been shot a lot of times in games, but never in real life...
(Joke)

So you have been shot in real life?

Well, they say there's always some truth to jokes...

abuu91 K:20213 03/02/2013

I can't even think about the article when I see that Blood Money screenshot and know that whoever took this was doing the mission so horribly wrong.

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