Brian A. Thomas .com

Using a graph by the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Statistics, some folks have added a video game time line that helps show that youth violence rates continue to drop, despite the addition of violent video games. (See this article for details.) Contradicting what people like Jack Thompson, Evan Bayh, Hillary Clinton, Joe Lieberman and the like seem to want us to believe.
The caveat correctly points out that in truth it is impossible to draw true correlation between the two, but by that measure the graphs that Thompson, Clinton, Lieberman and the rest use on the opposite side of the issue can’t show a true correlation that games cause violence.
In the end it returns to personal responsibility. People like Clinton, Lieberman and Thompson want to blame video games for violent kids, rather than look at the kid themselves, or their parents. It is easy for them to blame others, since they seem to think that nobody is capable of thinking for themselves. The problem with that line of thought is that if that is true, then those who made the violent game/movie had no choice either, but God forbid they carry their logic past the big bucks.
While Clinton, Lieberman and Bayah, who introduced a bill to stop the sell of violent games to children (despite the fact that most stores enforce the ratings already, it is parents who buy the games for kids) are Democrats, the Republicans aren’t innocent on this issue either as a recent committee hearing showed… where they proved themselves idiots by saying they are gamers, playing pong (giving the sound effects) and games like that.

And remember people, vote third party! Let us give America back to the people and away from the lobbyist who control the two big parties.

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