Senator Feinstein: We Need Video Game Control

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Since the assault weapons ban seems to have died in Congress, it looks like Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) now turning her attention to video games...again (http://venturebeat.com/2013/04/04/senator-feinstein-congress-may-have-to-proceed-with-violent-video-game-regulation/). '"If Sandy Hook doesn't [make game publishers change] then maybe we have to proceed (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/03/dianne-feinstein-nra_n_3009954.html), but that is in the future," said Feinstein. She went on to claim that video games play "a very negative role for young people, and the industry ought to take note of that."' Yet, as the article points out, since the introduction of games like DOOM, the crime rate in the U.S. has gone down (http://www.guns.com/2013/04/05/feinstein-now-talking-video-game-control/). Dramatically. Correlation != causation, and all that jazz, but there are a lot of violent video games these days and yet crime has continued to go down."

http://games.slashdot.org/story/13/04/05/2034253/senator-feinstein-we-need-video-game-control