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returntothepit >> discuss >> Violent Video Game Tax by North Korean Unicorn on Jan 18,2013 1:17pm
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toggletoggle post by North Korean Unicorn at Jan 18,2013 1:17pm
Really? I just read this crap.

VIOLENT video games could soon be hit with a sales tax.

US congresswoman Diane Franklin said her proposed tax would help to "finance mental health programs and law enforcement measures to prevent mass shootings."

Since the Sandy Hook massacre in November in which 20 children and six adults were killed, American politicians and lobbyists have been pointing the finger at violent video games as the catalysts for the countless massacres that have occurred in the US over the last 50 years.


http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive...roposes-violent-video-game-tax.aspx



toggletoggle post by LucidCurse at Jan 18,2013 1:19pm
Not reading but yap yap Jack Thompson



toggletoggle post by North Korean Unicorn at Jan 18,2013 1:23pm
dont blame you for not reading that bullshit



toggletoggle post by Yeti at Jan 18,2013 1:24pm
it's about time. if only this had happened when i was a lad, i wouldn't have grown up with an insatiable craving to steal people's souls, shoot ice out of my hands, curl into a ball to generate electricity, and shoot imps with a BFG. DAMN YOU!



toggletoggle post by KEVORD  at Jan 18,2013 1:33pm
Gun violence in the U.S. Has actually decreased in the past 10 years. So them blaming FPS so they can squeeze more money out of people is such a scam. I don't see them taxing ticket prices for violent movies in the theater. I think it's funny that people in government would get upset over Call of Duty but will gladly hand an 18 year old a real gun to play Call of Duty in real life.



toggletoggle post by Burnsy at Jan 18,2013 1:39pm
KEVORD said[orig][quote]
I think it's funny that people in government would get upset over Call of Duty but will gladly hand an 18 year old a real gun to play Call of Duty in real life.





toggletoggle post by Alx_Casket  at Jan 18,2013 1:55pm
Hopefully this means they'll make Skate 4.



toggletoggle post by eddie  at Jan 18,2013 2:06pm
Just read an article a day to two ago that shows there's no reasonable correlation with the data available between gun violence and violent video game sales.

primary evidence was that countries like japan and south Korea spend much more per-capita for violent video games and the US and have a fraction of gun violence. Also they spend more time playing them.



toggletoggle post by eddie  at Jan 18,2013 2:06pm
KEVORD said[orig][quote]
Gun violence in the U.S. Has actually decreased in the past 10 years. So them blaming FPS so they can squeeze more money out of people is such a scam. I don't see them taxing ticket prices for violent movies in the theater. I think it's funny that people in government would get upset over Call of Duty but will gladly hand an 18 year old a real gun to play Call of Duty in real life.


also this



toggletoggle post by xmikex at Jan 18,2013 2:31pm
All those bubbles... all those bobbles...



toggletoggle post by ShadowSD  at Jan 18,2013 7:58pm
So dumb... watching politicians from both sides and lobbyists from the NRA talking about videogames, this is what happens when people in DC who don't want to discuss guns try to change the subject. It's videogames! It's music! It's mental health! It's the culture!

Hey... maybe it's interpretive dance!



toggletoggle post by dreadkill  at Jan 18,2013 8:55pm
xmikex said[orig][quote]
All those bubbles... all those bobbles...
hahahaha



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