- Blacknight159
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"Major corporations, including the video game industry, make billions on marketing and selling violent content to children. They have a responsibility to protect our children. If they do not, you can count on the Congress to take a more aggressive role," Rockefeller said in a statement.
No, no they don't Mr. Rockefeller. They aren't selling video games to little children, and it's not their responsibility to "protect our children".
Yes, they release games, but are they selling directly to kids? Are they forcing kids to buy the games? NO!
And to say that somehow it's the responsibility of these companies to safeguard the kids and protect them is utter bull-blam!-. They're responsibility is to make, publish, and release games.
You know who owns this responsibility? The parents! HEAVEN FORBID that parents actually take responsibility and raise their kids. It's not the job of the companies to do this. We have an ESRB which is simple enough for even stupid people to comprehend so when a kid wants to buy a game that has an "M" or "AO" rating on it the parent will say "oh hell nah" and not buy it. It's the duty of the PARENTS to monitor what their child should play and even more importantly to teach their kids right from wrong, what's real and what's fantasy.
People are blaming the shooting on video games. Well if video games had anything to do with it, who we really should be blaming is not the games, but the parents.
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Thoughts? Does anyone agree/disagree?
[Edited on 12.19.2012 3:47 PM PST]