Clown Senator: Video Games Bigger Problem Than Guns
January 31, 2013
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as posted by the channel"Violent video games are a bigger problem than guns, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said Wednesday.
"I think video games [are] a bigger problem than guns, because video games affect people," Alexander said on 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."*
There isn't a single scientific study linking games to video game violence, and the theory that games do lead to violence has been debunked repeatedly. Yet why won't politicians stop scapegoating games for the violence problem? Cenk Uygur explains that the reason is what it always is...greed.
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