U.S. Senator Says Violent Games Are "Practice Simulators"

[Bleidd Whitefalcon]

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Ms. Feinstein, you have no idea what you're talking about. Please go educate yourself and then come back when you're not going to make an idiot of yourself. Or maybe focus on things that need to be done - like passing a budget.

 

[GonzoGamer]

Really?
Another one who thinks games can be used as a simulator for using guns?

I vote they put everyone who thinks so into an institution. Both the politicians and the ones who would try to use it like that.

Also... Am I the only one who thinks she looks like professor Umbridge?

The one from the movies, definitely.

We could hope that crazy spree shooters just trained themselves with video games, then people could tackle them to the ground while they spin around with a sniper rifle or tbag a corpse.

 

[1337mokro]

I'm not even going to rebut this. It is basically the old "Rock and role will turn you to the devil and make you gay" thing.

It's a politician trying to get attention nothing else. Fuck her.

As far as I can see atop my giant K/D ratio is that none of those bodies are actual bodies. Not something every one can say nowadays.

 

[Ukomba]

She's right of course. And thanks to Amateur Surgeon I'm now opening my own clinic, Mortal Combat has made me a Black Belt, and Dead Space has made me a Master Engineer.

 

[Chatboy 91]

What's that? Feinstein's an idiot? I could've told you that years ago. After all, she's the moron who introduced the AWB.

 

[Baresark]

Yes, and Mike Tyson's Punchout taught me to be a championship boxer, Pong made me an awesome tennis player, and Mario taught me to jump on bad guys to defeat them... This is a such dead end thinking.

 

[RipRoaringWaterfowl]

Is this just a Yank thing? I swear I've never heard British politics going on about games like this. Or is the focus of american politics on damning games just misrepresented on this site because every time anyone comes out with an offhand comment its posted as news?

In the UK theres only one to mind: Keith Vaz. And you may have heard of Michael Atkinson, semi-retired former Attorney-General in South Australia. Both have been quiet for a long while.

There are those outside of the US, but they're rarer... yet, when they speak, this can make them louder.

OT: So Feinstein has just jumped off the deep end... well, she never did much after the AWB anyways, and its usefulness is debatable.

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

Excuse me. If I am shooting up aliens, that means I am practicing to SAVE THE HUMAN RACE! Some gratitude.

 

[cookyy2k]

Wasn't this entire attitude the reason desert bus was created?

Penn Jillette commented in his radio show that the overly realistic nature of the game was in response to Janet Reno's comments in support of the moral panic about violent video games at the time

yup.

 

[Azex]

I wonder what retarded things the people of power will complain about once all these old fools have died off and all there positions are held by the current generation.

 

[duchaked]

okay I admit that I had a pretty good idea how to manage a gun the first time I shot one because I played video games (like how to load the clip and whatnot), but then again I found it more educating just to look it up online (here's a picture of a gun. here's the safety...etc etc)

anyway...don't live in California, but if I did I'd be sure to remember her name for elections time.

 

[Nowhere Man]

You know, it's good we don't have that many games like Deus Ex or Fallout where you can lie to get what we want, we may be teaching our kids to be politicians when they grow up.

Fallout could also be blamed for drug use, and Deus Ex for ingratitude.

 

[Agente L]

Remember when TV used to melt the children brains, and turn them into nothing more than empty air heads?

Or when rock was a path down to satan and would make all of it's listener into hate-filled psychopaths?

"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock and roll."

Shigeru Miyamoto

 

[Chemical Alia]

I dunno...I shot some real guns when I was in the army, and I've played a few games with guns in them (even worked on a few!). I wouldn't them as comparable experiences. At all.

I think you accidentally a few words...

Also I tried firing a bolt-action .223 in real life once on a farm at a target setup on a private lake. I was nowhere NEAR as accurate as I am with in in games (Missed the target altogether), the recoil was surprising (A mouse or controller doesn't exert any!) and the noise was DEAFENING! I play of lot of games with guns in them so in this senator's logic despite what I just said I am ready to grab an AK-47 or something and start shooting up the place! Does that seem right to you?

It's a mystery verb, you can use your imagination and have fun! But yeah, even something like the amount of control you need to accurately fire an actual gun isn't something that's addressed in video games.

 

[Parakeettheprawn]

What... I just.. how could...

Do these people even use their brains? I could use the neurons for far better purposes!

 

[Hopposai]

Damn she found my secret. And I was just gearing up to take revenge on the the terrorist that stole my daughters by traveling to different dungeons and gathering some necessary items and weapons. And at the same time I will be saving the galaxy from alien invaders and will move across the sky in a line left to right. Ok, in all reality, I am seal team six. The rest of the team is just there to take bullets for me, cuz I can move like the matrix with bullet time. But, I do have trouble opening doors. I well, I guess I will just wait around for my orders from the president. Unless he gets captured by ninjas. Then my badass friend and I will have to save him with our kungfu.

 

[CardinalPiggles]

Yeah these entertainment products are literally just murder simulators.

I train every day on Call of Duty in the hopes that one day I can be the next Rambo.

 

[JET1971]

Is this just a Yank thing? I swear I've never heard British politics going on about games like this. Or is the focus of american politics on damning games just misrepresented on this site because every time anyone comes out with an offhand comment its posted as news?

It is much worse for our gaming brethren in Australia. And please dont use the term yank lol. thats only a small section of the US called New England lol.

Anyway Feinstein actualy has a phobia when it comes to guns and violance. this makes her see even the smallest amount of violance or a gun and makes it out to be 10 times what it really is. Mountains and molehills, in feinsteins world there are no molehills. 2 little kids playing with blocks at a daycare and one kid pushes the other and takes that kids block is an attempted murder and beating in her eyes if she were to witness it.

So in the case of games where there is simulated violance and guns in them she cannot stop herself from losing her shit because of her irrational fear of those things. It is rather sad because she needs therapy and she is a senator who somehow keeps getting elected.

 

[DSK-]

Since when do guns in real life ever require someone to press R on a keyboard (feel free to insert your control scheme of choice plus the keybind it is, folks) in order to reload a gun, or press mouse 1 to fire it?

You might want to consult gun control laws or something, Ms Feinstein.

 

[Charli]

Oh look another doddering old person in a position where they're talking about something they know nothing about and consequently fear it.

Just another day.