| wfz said: My Californian senator said that us "video gamers" (who are actually the LARGE majority of the USA population) have a lust for violence and our opinions are biased? Holy fucking shit, how do I motion to remove this man from his position? I swear to god, the retarded US government the last number of years has made me so upset that I just want to move to Canada. |
I think the BIG problem is that most politicians are too old. May seem harsh, but it is true. They never grew up on video games, so what they don't understand frightens them. It's no different from the parents of the 50's and 60's (ironically, many of these politicians' parents), who were afraid of Rock N' Roll corrupting their children. Or the parents of the 90's, who were afraid of Metal music, like Marilyn Manson's. Video games started getting heat around the same time Marilyn Manson did, but it has sustained far longer. Of course, I think a lot of the "younger" politicians (40's and 50's) don't feel the same way about video games, but they want to not only look like they are doing something (even though they aren't), as well as get their hands on some of that COD money (hence the proposed "violent video game tax").
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