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NEWS: Californian Senator Links Games to Violence

I hate how he makes it sound like that the first and second amendments are bad things. Politicians today are just so...gah, can't even think of the right word.

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

'Video games affect people.' ...

i think this person needs her head sorting yes the dark knight rises shootings were bad but those had nothing to do with games that was the movies ok and i play grand theft auto for hours doesn't mean i go out and blow people's heads off afterwards these people should actually go out and ask more then one person what they think before they come to any conclusion

Tenbyakugon wrote:

Doesn't matter, we have the Second Amendment for a reason.

But is that reason still valid?...

I'm eternally grateful anime will never achieve enough status or notability for anyone to blame it on anything. Maybe it's best that anime do stay unnoticed by the mainstream, forever.

Danette-Anime-Otaku wrote:

I hate how he makes it sound like that the first and second amendments are bad things. Politicians today are just so...gah, can't even think of the right word.

They're an impediment that stops the government from "doing something" - and if the government doesn't do anything, how are they supposed to pander to their electorate?

The second amendment is largely outdated. It was created back when the only weapons we had were muskets and the worse thing you had to deal with was an inaccurate cannon that lobbed metal spheres into a group of people. Back when there was no real dedicated army like we have today and it was expected of people to defend their country if the need arise, for example, from bandits and Native Americans who attacked the frontier settlements. When the only transport method were horses, even any small army the country had wouldn't be much help of saving your home from attack if it had to ride for a week before it could get there. So there was a need and expectation of people to have weapons in order to create a militia if the need arises.

These days with the government having a large dedicated army spread across land, sea, and air. With the possession of tanks, jets, submarines, battleships, bombs, automatic weapons, and other arsenal the average person can't obtain, the idea of some 'people's militia' doesn't exactly hold up anymore.