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A Tennessee Senator states that video games are more of a threat to people than guns.

Lamar Alexander, a Republican senator from Tennessee, said that "video games is a bigger problem than guns because video games affect people," in response to a posed question of supporting universal background checks.

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    Solitaire wrote...
    Du
    February 4, 2013 10:16 pm
    Do you really have to be a rocket scientist to know that our kids are being brain washed by some of these games they can't keep their hands off of. Playing them at every spare minute and not learning to socialize with even a group of kids their own age let alone an adult.
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    Solitaire wrote...
    For The Adult Gamers & Textser
    February 4, 2013 10:35 pm
    It us to be the TV that was used quite often to babysit the kids and now it is these sometimes very violent games. I know if your an adult gamer you just hate to hear this. I'm sure if you are really into gaming then there has been some effect even on your own relationships with others if they are not into what your into. It becomes nothing but a waste of time. I do think your spouse if you have one would agree especially if you have young kids. I think a lot of marriages are even effected by all this gaming. I have watched couples even text each other in the same room.
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    Michoacan wrote...
    Watching pro football can lead to
    February 4, 2013 10:46 pm
    domestic violence. "We test this hypothesis using data on police reports of family violence on Sundays during the professional football season. Controlling for location and time fixed effects, weather factors, the pre-game point spread, and the size of the local viewing audience, we find that upset losses by the home team (losses in games that the home team was predicted to win by more than 3 points) lead to an 8 percent increase in police reports of at-home male-on-female intimate partner violence." Not to mention traumatic brain injury. Time to shut down this conduit to violence.
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    yrreta wrote...
    Solitaire blames the games and
    February 5, 2013 4:44 am
    Micho blames the NFL. Although Micho's statement has been the norm for the past 20 years or more, what both fail to point out is that adult behavior can normally be traced directly back to childhood and the parents. Want to go after the violent behavior, start with the parents. Some people should be trained and licensed for parenting, others should probably just be banned altogether. Football and children's make believe play haven't changed, aside from electronics, but the parenting skills have. Children need guidance and role models to develop behavior, aka parenting.
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    Steve wrote...
    Video games and Hollywood
    February 5, 2013 8:24 am
    Hands off! These are Obama donors and he's not about to focus hard facts on them.
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    Auribo wrote...
    Do you remember Cowboys and Indians?
    February 5, 2013 2:12 pm
    Violence has always been a part of entertainment for the masses. 100 years ago kids were playing "Cowboys and Indians. The only people offended were Indians. Then It was GI Joe who made every little boy want to join the army. Now and for the past 20 years its been Video Games. Ask any little boy if he would rather a shiny red truck or a toy gun for his birthday? My bets on the gun. Do people actually pay attention to the ratings on TV shows after their kid is like 8 or 10 years old?
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    Auribo wrote...
    again
    February 5, 2013 2:13 pm
    The real problem is that people do violent things. It's not toys, TV, games, movies, or guns. It's how you raise your children, how you teach them responsibility. And regardless of how they are raised by their parents, their Community and the way they are treated by others also is a HUGE factor as well as any possible mental illnesses.
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    Michoacan wrote...
    Influential Hollywood Biggie, John Wayne,
    February 5, 2013 2:30 pm
    killed scores perhaps hundreds of on screen people, allegedly bad guys. His homicidal Hollywood cinematic offerings influenced countless young males to pretend that they were killing countless other young males. Who knows? Wayne's uncompromising, armed tough guy screen personas may have also influenced some into actual killing. Time to ban his films.
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