Joystiq: Earlier in May, Biden met behind closed doors with 20 representatives from faith-based organizations to discuss gun control and immigration, and he briefly addressed video games, Politico reports. Franklin Graham, son of evangelist Billy Graham, proposed to Biden that “media and entertainment that portray violence should be subject to a special tax, with the proceeds going to help victims and their families,” according to Rabbi Julie Schonfeld. Biden replied that there was “no restriction on the ability to do that; there’s no legal reason why they couldn’t” place a tax on violent media, Sister Marjorie Clark told Politico. Biden again emphasized the need for more research into the subject, Clark added: “He said they really need a good scientific study, which they’ve done on things like smoking.”
Uh, what? There’s no porn surcharge… and what would constitute violent media? Shooter video game? The national news? Has anyone noticed that media sites are promoting what used to be local news lately, just because there’s a gun involved? Those disc packages that are impossible to open from a plastic shell without scissors… those are really violent media. What about Food Fight? That’s a grey area, right because you’re fighting violently but with food, so it’s fun. In Defender, you shot aliens that because they were trying to steal people from the ground and it was on you to save them… that’s a moral quandry. Or Berserk? That was self defense and Otto couldn’t even be shot. Pac-man because he terrorizes ghosts when powered up? Obviously violent. Look at how their expression goes all tense and they run away from him. Violent.
I don’t know what to make of the news when we shot Bin Laden… where in the hell does that come into play? Do I owe a family that lost a love one due to gun violence a quarter because I clicked on a news link?!
Some how I think that if Franklin Graham asked Biden to support a bill that taxes “wrong” religions and give the money to the “right” religion – because obviously Franklin’s is the only right one – it would be less subjective… wait until Clark realizes that most of the existing scientific studies show that violent media doesn’t cause violent behavior and he has to go fund one specifically to back the out come he wants…
That Biden sorta says “OK” blows my entire frontal lobe.
#jackass