nsane.forums Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 U.S. President Barack Obama called on Congress to provide funding for research on violence in video games and possible connections to real-world gun violence as part of a wide-ranging package of policy moves announced Wednesday. Obama asked Congress to allocate $10 million for a study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) looking at the relationship between video games, violence in the media, and gun violence. The proposed study is one of several proposals Obama made in an attempt to address gun violence in the U.S. following a school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, a month ago. Protecting U.S. children "is our first task as a society," Obama said. "This is how we will be judged." About 30,000 U.S. residents die every year in gun-related incidents. The CDC study is part of the White House's effort to end a congressional freeze on research about gun violence. Since the mid-1990s, Congress has prohibited the CDC and other federal agencies from researching the causes of gun violence. "We don't benefit from ignorance," Obama said. "We don't benefit from not knowing the science of this epidemic of violence." Video-game violence impactSeveral critics, including the powerful National Rifle Association, have pointed to violence in video games and movies as a possible cause for real-world violence in the U.S. The entertainment and video game industries "have a responsibility to give parents tools and choices about the movies and programs their children watch and the games their children play," the White House said in a statement. Obama also called on Congress to pass a law requiring background checks before all gun sales, including sales at gun shows. He also called on Congress to limit gun magazines to 10 rounds and to restore a ban on the sale of military-style assault rifles in the U.S., although there's wide disagreement over the definition of an assault rifle. The Entertainment Software Association (ESA), a trade group representing video-game makers, praised Obama and Vice President Joe Biden for a "thoughtful, comprehensive process" while engaging groups on possible solutions to gun violence. The trade group agrees that video game makers should give parents tools and choices, but it doesn't believe video games lead to real-world violence, the ESA said in a statement. "The same entertainment is enjoyed across all cultures and nations, but tragic levels of gun violence remain unique to our country," the ESA added. "Scientific research and international and domestic crime data all point toward the same conclusion: entertainment does not cause violent behavior in the real world." View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vissha Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 If they are telling it games are reson for real violence, then what they do in military? Even hurting/killing a single person is a violence. So there must be no FBI/Pentagon/ISI/army/military/police. They all do and create violence all over the world. And people in Afghanistan/Pak is not playing much games. Then how there are more violence there? Why Obama ordered killing of Bin Laden, he might have captured them and put in seperate jail. And might have revealed all terrorists and their plans by now. And the world would've been terrorists free. Obama gone mad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nIGHT Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 Playing violent video games is not the problem here, I think it is the culture and norm of the common social mentality.When US set a base in our country, one of their soldiers just fired a bullet in the head of a child picking up trashes 20 feet away from their fences!What is wrong with that? Well, almost still a toddler kid picking up trashes to sell it to buy a single small noodle package a day to feed his 10 brothers/sister and a mother who is still pregnant! Why such cruelty in your blood and :( bones?I am not a US hater as this goes for some guys who somehow spread around the world and enjoy killing people without a good reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuthut Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 Video games don't cause violence. Lag causes violence :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nIGHT Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 Video games don't cause violence. Lag causes violence :DWow! How I wish I was the one that came with this. hehe! You're right! Obama should better gives you the $10 million to save time. :lmao: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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