Comments on: Video games in Congress' crosshairs

House committee on consumer protection plans a public hearing to highlight violent and sexually explicit games.

Parents: PARENT!

First off let me say that I do not think young children should be exposed to graphic violence or sexuality. But, if you as a parent are stupid enough to send little Johnny or Betty into the games store by themselves with $50 - $60 and they come out with something inappropriate who is to blame?

You parents need to monitor/ parent your children. There is no piece of legislation they will ever pass that will properly raise you're kids!

These politicians as of late love to play the video game card or the terror card to distract the public from their inadequate job performance on the real issues. The truth be told they have no business legislating publications of any kind.

We have pornography, yet parents seem to be able to keep that medium in check (at least I would hope). I do not see these politicians outraged about the latest Penthouse or porn site, yet they attack video games with such vigor.

Don't they have a war to fight or a deficit to cut or some highways to fix? Why are our tax dollars being wasted to control our first amendment just because Hillary (and others)thinks she can raise you're kids better than you?

[Git969]

Amen

I couldn't agree more.

[talus7]

double amen

preach it brotha, preach it!

[ag1010]

They should be figuring out how to lower GAS PRICES

Instead of wasting time trying to be big brother, they should figure out how to lower gasoline and natural gas prices. With the money I'm spending on that, I can't afford video games!

[ag1010]

They should be figuring out how to lower GAS PRICES

Instead of wasting time trying to be big brother, they should figure out how to lower gasoline and natural gas prices. With the money I'm spending on that, I can't afford video games they are trying to put rules on in the first place!

[casper2004]

Hillary thinks it takes a village to raise children

But, don't you dare tell her how to raise hers!

[System Tyrant]

It does take a village...

to raise children. It does NOT take the village councel though.

[jdawgnoonan]

Our government is rediculous

Our government is apparently ran by a bunch of out of touch,
idealistic fools. I wish that they would start trying to work on how
to stay out of our lives instead of on how to protect us by limiting
our choices.

[casper2004]

No can do!

The government has been working on regulating every aspect of our lives since the founding fathers died. Plus, that eyeball on the dollar bill isn't on it just for show, you know. It's there so that one day the government can stick microchips in it to watch our every move.

What about the 5pm nightly news?

All the violence and death on the nightly news, and they worry about fictional video games?

[VI Joker]

What about it?

Their thinking is that kids are more likely to play a violent video game than what watch the news. To some extent they are right, but its not the government's place to say who should be playing or watching what. Its up to the indiviual if their an adult or their parents if they are not. Is anyone really asking the senators to sheild our children from violent video games? I have heard people asking for lower gas prices, better healthcare, and a variety of the other things.

[fraterm]

Thank you government heroes.

For once again going after the knee-jerk emotional direction so necessary to protect our "youth" and adding to our corpus of ever increasing nanny-state gubmint intervention, once again, for the children.

Nice to know the DemocRat's have a well placed cadre of idiots to balance out the (already accepted the chimp is an idiot) Bush boosting neo-con and fundamentalist non-islamist nanny-stateists.

Hillary and Liberman are proof positive that all of the sheep towing the line accusing the Bush administration of hideous constitutional abuses, are firmly denying their own kitchen pantry full of black kettles.

Here's to the United States of Hysteria.

[talus7]

damn i triple amen that

We need somebody to write a Mortal Kombat style game titled Liberals vrs Conservatives. They would have politician like characters who can do special fatalities. For example: Bush's fatality would have him farting a WMD like device out of his @$$ and nuking his victims.

[plugone]

so stupid

You know what makes me violent? Stupid politicians. They always cite grand theft auto. Until such time where I can actually run around and vent any stupid rage I might have on actual pregnant women with a nail gun, i'd say my playstation is a pretty freaking SWEET alternative.

[plugone]

so stupid

You know what makes me violent? Stupid politicians. They always cite grand theft auto. Until such time where I can actually run around and vent any stupid rage I might have on actual pregnant women with a nail gun, i'd say my playstation is a pretty freaking SWEET alternative.

[Researcher45]

Video Game content not the problem

Those who have serious outcomes connected to video game play are probably victims of exposure to Subliminal Distraction.

The problem was discovered when knowledge workers using the first prototypes of close-spaced movable office workstations began to have mental breaks.

Subliminal Sight and peripheral vision reflexes had operated in the special circumstances those workstations created to cause the mental breaks. The cubicle solved that problem by 1968. Cubicles are designed to block side or peripheral vision to limit the subliminal detection of threat movement while the worker is concentrating.

The situation is so simple that video game players can accidentally create the circumstances and will have the same mental break if a threshold of exposure is reached.

The Redlake shooter left a journal entry that shows what he did to cause exposure.

VisionAndPsychosis.Net is a private psychology project about the 'conflict of physiology' that allows this to happen.

http://VisionAndPsychosis.Net (There is nothing being sold there and there is no charge for the information to prevent exposure.)Follow the instructions to start with the psychology demonstration page.

[feliusrex]

The government should stop trying to be a parent.

As with most other comments, I'm against having the government involved in this issue. Parents are the ones that need to be involved, not congressional committees. With all the other major problems that need to be addressed, I feel like trivial issues like this are just smoke and mirrors to distract people from the fact that no one is paying attention to more substantial problems.

[qwerty75]

Hypocritical

Our government is one of the most bloodthirsty governments in the world. Who are they to come down on video games? Especially when just because there is a correlation between violent video games and violent behavior does not mean that video games is a cuase of it.

This is like Clinton speaking right after Columbine, saying that violence is not the answer. The same day he approved a bombing run.

[jcruz1027]

New Video Game

We need a new game similar to GTA but you can go around blowing the heads off all these chicken hawks...

[Mr. Network]

So if the gubnit is against violent video games, what is AA?

Our government condems violent video games, yet our very own United States Army (with our tax dollars) makes a video game that targets 13-31 year olds and engages them in violence in efforts to boost enrollments.

How contradictory eh?

This must be the exception because it protects us from terrorists some how or another. Right? Right!

[JFDMit]

Is that the time?

Terrorist-threat tub thumping, massaged economic figures, immigration 'crackdown', the 'Marriage' Amendment, anti-videogame hysteria: it must be election time again!

Sure as night follows day, the usual swarm of shills, hacks, crooks and self-publicists in DC come out of the woodwork during election season, with the same old wagonload of tired crap they hope we'll get so offended about that it will make us go insane and vote for them.

Once they get elected, they'll settle down and return to doing what they do best: spend our money on pork-barrel projects and figure out new ways of hiding all the bribes they get.

[Blackspeak]

SUBTRIFUGE...

This is what congress does when they don't want to tackle the REAL issues...like ending the war in Iraq, the environment, illegal immigration, the economy, the national debt, healthcare, underemployment (outsourcing jobs), the nation's crumbling infrastructure....

[midn8t]

presonal safty or presonal freedom

this whole video game issue along with alot of othere freedoms whcih are being tooken away are all being tooken away under the thought of your presonal safty.

goverment is pretty much saying we know whats best for you and we have your safty in mind so yets take away your freedom to portect you from your self.

this is not goverments job it was never setup to be like this. and till people start standing up and telling goverment what they think and saying hay we want our presonal freedoms back or till they pass some law to portect peoples presonal freedoms so that goverment dosent have the right to use presonal safty as an excuse we will just keep losing our presonal freedoms little more every day.

[GrandpaN1947]

The MORALS police are at it again

and YOU voted them in!

Now do something about it!

[TV4NETFLIX]

I could not agxplayree more. I used to own all 4 MKs for the Genesis and sold them totalling 20 bucks. I watch AOTS, XPLAY and most of the games they review are violent. To quote S. L. Jackson "Those two put BOTH THE A$$ is assassin." (AFRO Samauri, XBOX, PS3) I plan (hopefully) to take a Psych course at the local community college ad will write a paper on this subject. DON'T FORGET HOW COMICS WERE EDITED IN WW2.