I think they need to ask these ignorant congressmen how many of them grew up playing cowboys and indians pointing their fingers and shooting at one another. I didn't see anyone back then bitching about how it promotes genocide. Video games are the easy scape goat because of the lack of a strong legal defense or lobbyists. Nothing more than politicians looking to put a notch on their belt in order to attract the votes of lazy/irresponsible parents. If they want to outlaw violent video games then they might as well do away with paintball also...same exact thing only in a virtual environment and a whole lot safer/cheaper.

@ hazardman

I'm not English, why all the hate for the English? Actually, better not set you off because looking at your rant it looks like you could be yet another American gun nut ready to snap at any second and shoot up a few 10 year old children just because you feel like it.

@ TacTaru

I'd rather live in happy happy land than in a country where I genuinely have to worry about whether or not my 10 year old child will make it home from school alive. Or where I would have to consider wearing a bullet proof vest to high school or the Goddamn cinema. And if you think the "bad guys" are twiddling their thumbs just because you have the right to bear arms have a look at this article: http://www.presstv.ir/usdet...
More than 1,000 people have died by the gun in the US since the mass shooting in Connecticut and that was only 1 MONTH ago. According to this article on average nearly 100,000 people are shot or killed with a gun in the US EVERY year. On average there are 87 gun deaths in the US EVERY DAY with an average of 183 people injured by guns on top of that. And these are only the reported stats. How many extra people die every year in the US by the gun that aren't reported?

And check out this fact: The slaughter of children by gunfire in the United States is 25 TIMES the rate of the 20 next largest industrial countries in the world COMBINED.

Maybe the people defending their right to bear arms could elaborate a little bit on who exactly the "bad guys are? Because it looks to me like ordinary US citizens are doing a pretty good job of blowing each other away without any help from the "bad guys".