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dsgrue3 on 16 January 2013
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the_dengle said:
dsgrue3 said:
the_dengle said:

I've never seen so many people opposed to simple research before. We have nothing to fear from this study. In fact, it would only help our cause. Imagine the Predisent of the United States himself stating that violent video games do not propagate violent crimes. What say we let them do their study, and if they think they've found a connection THEN we can object?

It's all for a good cause anyway. Of course the government is looking into what it can do to prevent violent crimes after that. Again, if we attack them just for doing a study, we'll look like we're afraid of what the results will show. Let's be more mature than that as a community.

10 mil is chickenscratch for the Federal govt, by the way. They wipe their nose with more than that.

Not opposition to research - it's been researched quite abundantly already. 

Manipulation of data is a common practice of our government or haven't you noticed? This could easily happen here.

If manipulation of data is so commonplace for the government and these studies have been done before, why doesn't the government just manipulate the existing data? Or why didn't they manipulate it to begin with when it was first collected?

I stand by my comment. Our community and this industry have nothing to hide. We have nothing to fear from the results of this study. Maybe -- and I know this sounds completely insane but bear with me for a moment -- maybe the President is simply trying to find a way to actually decrease violent crime and not just looking for a scapegoat. Seeing how blaming a scapegoat and thereby NOT reducing violent crime will not reflect well upon his actions.

Studies have been done and their results are published and freely available to read over. It's too late to manipulate the data. Again, no reason to fund more studies concerning this.

If you want to have the government spend your money on something that's already been done before, okay. I don't. 

If the president wanted to decrease violent crime he could start with the economic conditions instead of allowing taxes to increase. 

Violence is most prevalent with impoverishment and mental deficiency.

I agree there is nothing to hide, but this is a superfluous endeavor.