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Do Video Games Make Kids Violent?

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Adam Lanza gunned down twenty-seven people in Newtown, Conn. Dec. 14 and his access to high-powered firearms has put gun control front and center in the discourse around the tragedy, but the 20-year-old’s reported enthusiasm for violent video games has some experts and lawmakers wondering if those, too, need the kind of regulation so many want on gun ownership. Senator Joe Lieberman (I-Conn. ) addressed this issue while discussing his proposed “national commission on mass violence” on “Fox News Sunday” Dec. 16. “The violence in the entertainment culture, particularly with the extraordinary realism to video games and movies now, does cause vulnerable young men, particularly, to be more violent,” said the senator, who was joined by Sen.

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0.205689“A huge part of discipline and development is understanding consequences. Letting kids know that their actions have consequences,” Dr. Davies told ...
0.0733914“A huge part of discipline and development is understanding consequences. Letting kids know that their actions have consequences,” Dr. Davies told ABCnews.com. “Video games like Grand Theft Auto turn the consequences into positives. You kill a prostitute and get points, you’re rewarded.”
-0.321858“They’re not affected by reading a violent book the same way they are from a video game that is visually violent and that they actually participate in and that rewards them for violent acts,” she said. ...
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-0.421384Antonin Scalia described the bill as “unprecedented and mistaken” ...
0.412475“Parents who care about the matter can readily evaluate the  games their children bring home,” Scalia wrote. ...
0.22721“Parents who care about the matter can readily evaluate the  games their children bring home,” Scalia wrote. “Filling the remaining modest gap in concerned-parents’ control can hardly be a compelling state interest.”
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-0.271592Senator Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) addressed this issue while discussing his proposed “national commission on mass violence” on “Fox News Sunday”
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