In a resent article by the Huffington Post, Nancy Pelosi: Video Games Are Not The Reason For Violence In America, it discusses the point on which video games and other pop culture things are the cause of violence and shootings or to be more specific school shootings.I perfectly agree with this, people cannot and should not blame their actions on others because ultimately in the end it is our own decision to do what we do regardless of what we play, read, or watch. Pelosi says that video games and things of this nature are not the cause of these outbreaks of violence and her plan calls for scientific testing and studying so that they can wright and hopefully pass "the best legislation possible". Now I'm not disagreeing with Pelosi, but why even test it? For one it has already been tested countless times and the results may vary, either cause everyone is different or the results match the testers beliefs as needed, but there is no need for another test. And two, these so called effects of twisting a person's mind into a rage filled monster bent on rape, murder, and destruction on all he or she can get there claws on doesn't really seem to be a problem in other countries, where the games are the same or in some cases even more violent. Chris Wallace challenged Pelosi on this, stating that she should "simply go to her "friends in Hollywood" and "shame them" into action." That is completely pointless and a stupid thing to say, video games and violent movies are obviously not to blame for violence, most of these games and movies reflect society to begin with. While Pelosi's plan isn't the best it is a step in the right direction.
So the question is who do we blame... dare I say... ourselves, or human nature to be more specific if it isn't obvious from our history of war after war and violence through out the ages. If that doesn't prove that there isn't a little bit of violence in human nature I don't know what will, cause I can assure you during the Holocaust Hitler wasn't playing Mortal Combat or watching Saw 3D. So what do we do now about all this current violence and shootings? According to Pelosi "in Japan, for example, they have the most violent games and the lowest death -- mortality -- from guns." Japan, the kings of the weird and masters of violent media, has the lowest death rate from guns and we, who have much less violent media and forms of entertainment, have a much higher rate. Dose there seem to be any correlation there, because I think there is, they have more violent games and TV but lower rate of death by guns but we have a higher rate but less violent media. Could it be the difference in gun control or is it that Americans are just stupider. Well considering that a lot of Americans blame it on the games and TV probably the second, when the real answer is to just come up with better gun control and safety laws.She goes on to say "I don't know what the explanation is for that except they may have good gun laws." Which is exactly what we need, better gun control laws. We need to stop pussy footing around the subject and blaming other things instead of our own incompetence. Violence is apart of human nature just as any other part is, it is not caused by our forms of entertainment, those forms of entertainment are created from our natures not the other way around. But we can prevent these acts of violence from happening and to do that we as a nation must devise better gun control and safety laws instead of blaming video games and TV.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/10/nancy-pelosi-video-games_n_2657169.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular#slide=1991818
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