Robert Peters, despite my complete disagreement with every word out of your mouth, I will defend your right to say them.

I'm sure the founding fathers would agree with my thinking on Free Speech, and not yours.

I'm sorry... entertainment companies didn't pull the trigger, Cho did...

I find this socially reprehensible, the eroding of (excuse the French) fucking personal accountability, he, although suffering from an illness, and perhaps being inspired by literature and shouldn't have a gun in his possession, made a choice to fire that gun, a premeditated choice.

Only that wanker is truly accountable, using a broken system to procure the means to do so.

Preventing another V-tech requires 2 things, an improved mental health system, & tighter gun laws, not the scapegoating of pop culture, which hasn't turned the masses into psychotic killlers...

Why does he conveniently disregard the role that psychotropic drugs have played in so many of these tragedies?

Cho Seung Hui
Eric Harris
Dylan Klebold
Kip Kinkel
Jeff Weise
Ted Kaczinski
Michael McDermott
John Hinckley
Byran Uyesugi
Mark David Chapman
Charles Carl Roberts IV

All on potent psychotropics AFAIK.

That's exactly it Sean. Though history is forgotten upon fools like this...

Way to use the very tragic murders of 30+ people to further your own fucking agenda. Shitfuck, burn in hell, you cockmuncher. There, I'm practicing MY right to MY (and here's the key word) /FREE/ speech.

Perhaps before stating the obvious that "Cho had mental illness problems", people here should read the press release more carefully. Namely:

"the media [V-Tech anniversary coverage] should also be reporting on the irresponsible [...]"

The keyword here is "also". He's not singling out violent culture as the sole cause of the shooting, he's trying to add it to the many causes that contributed, each in a different way, to the tragic events.

There is not a single issue, nor is there a single solution, and lambasting someone because he is focusing on one particular facet of the problem is being narrow-minded.

I heavily disagree with that man's perspective. The constition was set up in the way it did because without being able to truly speak your mind, how can man truly critize how dark mans heart can be. I don't want to depth about european history at the time of the founding fathers, but you got to remember what europian countries did in the name of religion at the time.

The first admendment is the foundation of every matter in our government. When people start talking about restricting the 1st admendment, it really worries me. These groups that try to resrict the 1st ad. in the name of morality don't know that if they are sucessful in placing heavy restrictions on the first admend., they would be placing this country's morality in serious danger. Without the ability to critize corruption, libel, and defamation; this country would fall about in a matter of a few weeks.

It upsets me seeing other christians attack the first admendment just hurts me emotionly. I don't mean to bring religion into this but, we (in our faith) believe that man is corrupt. Without being able to openly discuss how dark mans heart can get, chaos ensues. And the first admendment helps ensure the ability to talk openly about these things. This is where I have a strong disagreement with that man about the first admendment being a 'suicide pact'. These christian groups trying to restrict the first admendment would end up hurting christianity itself.

Man, this guy has reached a new level of low, bashing the 1st Amendment saying that freedom of speech should be restricted? ARE YOU FREAKING SERIOUS!!! What he just said really pissed me off. It's these guys who preach openmindedness yet at the same time consider the Constitution stupid that really give society a black eye. If you don't like the idea that USA has given others a right to have a choice, then get out of our country!!! Calling the founding fathers and their ilk who have given their blood sweat and tears to allow freedom idiots just goes to show that you sir, have no business being here. Don't blame TV, don't blame movies, don't blame guns, don't blame video games, and don't blame the 1st Amendment. If anything, blame bad parenting, blame overzealous bullying, and above all BLAME THE PERSON WHO DID THE SHOOTING!!!!!

Why won't these idiots realize the racism and bullying Cho Seung went through? If humans learn how to treat each other not like shit, V-Tech would of never happened.

Of course Christian wackos like these guys always blame "violent media" because of their refusal to believe that humans are capable of treating other humans like if they're a inferior race.

@GrimCW

Did you read my earlier post on a *very* interesting sect of Buhddaism? That's a pretty cool religion.Hehhehheh....

[...] Via GamePolitics. “The media should also reconsider its blind adherence to modernistic Supreme Court decisions that have made it almost impossible to hold entertainment media companies responsible for harm caused by their reckless disregard for human life. Surely, this was not the intent of our nation’s founding fathers, which never meant for the Constitution to become a ’suicide pact.’ [...]

"the goal of the conferences, according to one former government official, is to build a better system for sharing classified cyber-threat data with private companies."

Wow... in 1 sentence they were able to spew enough ignorance for the past century. Perhaps they should have included Jazz music, Interracial marriage, and gay pride.

crap... wrong paste

"…the media [V-Tech anniversary coverage] should also be reporting on the irresponsible TV shows, films, rap lyrics and video games released in the past year that wallow in deadly gun violence and that are popular among children and young adults."

THAT's the quote I wanted.

Huh, I thought it was because he was "mentally ill and in need of hospitalization". Well, I guess I can be wrong from time to time.

Oh, by the way. Robert is a complete dick for seizing upon the anniversary of a horrific event to further his agenda.

There are my unasked two-cents.

...And yet another know-nothing, opportunistic douchebag uses this tragedy to attempt to push his own agenda.

[...] wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptWatchdog group Morality in Media marks the one-year anniversary of the Virginia Tech massacre with a press release in which MiM president Robert Peters (left) blames violent media for Hseung Hui Cho’s murderous rampage. Peters also refers to court rulings upholding the First Amendment as turning the Constitution into a “suicide pact.” From the press release: Undoubtedly, there are loopholes in our nation’s gun control laws that need plugging, but in remembering that the Virginia Tech killer used guns to slaughter fellow students, we should also remember that the killer grew up in a culture that glamorizes and even celebrates gun mayhem. [...]

modernistic Supreme Court decisions

What in the world does he mean by that? Of course he is an idiot. AS far as I know, the Supreme Court has yet to rule on anything regarding violent media.

So much for that argument.

I'm sure that the fact that the man had a history of mental illness had nothing to do with what happened. And while we're talking about the intent of the founding fathers tell me do you think when the second amendment, when the only guns the existed could be fired at rate of about one shot per minute (if you were pretty fast), that they had any concept that people would be able to by things such as assault rifles or even semiautomatic handguns for that matter.

Another watchdog idiot shooting his mouth of, great. As if this rhetoric wasn't tired enough, but now he's going right past gun control and into the realm of "TV DIRECTLY HARMS THE CHILDRENS!!!" If you ignore the fact that Chow as an anti-social, mentally unstable, gun-loving individual in the first place, you MIGHT have an argument. However, the guy watched wrestling and that was about it.

Additionally... Where the hell is this guy getting his statistics on gun violence? It's been going down for a while, last I checked. What a sensationalist jackass.

That's a great idea. Let's restrict art and media to topics that government censors consider "safe" so that no one is exposed to anything that may be shocking or dangerous.

@Monkeythumbs
We’re geeks, for crissakes - not sociopaths!

I resent the inference that those two things are mutually exclusive, I sir/madam/MrGarrison (Circle where appropriate) happen to be BOTH!

As much as a reactionary massacre-profiting tool as this guy is, he may have a point. Think about the american constitution:

The first amendment guarantees free speech thereby allowing the creation of this suicide cult
The second permits the legal ownership of the guns used in such suicides that somehow manage (presumably through bad aim) to take out 30 other people first.
Isn't there also an amendment to guarantee you a trial by peers (AKA: Other sociopathic murdering gamers)?

Damn man, they create the cult, arm them & then give them a way to get off scott free by stacking the jury?? My god its a conspiracy of Thompsonistic proportions!

Maybe they should focus less on entertainment media and more on the overwhelming amount of news coverage that every one of these shooters gets. Cho sent out his own press package, for fuck's sake. There's no real evidence that he was a big purveyor of violent entertainment (in fact it seems like he was less into that stuff than the average American young adult), but what was obvious was that he wanted his face and story plastered all over the news because that would make him instantly famous.

Hmm.. an anti-first amendment watchdog group uses the anniversary of a very unfortunate situation to opportunistically preach their anti-free speech stance.

Shocking!

You know, idiots like this prove the point I make all the time.

Why does the industry sit and do nothing. Admittedly, in this case, this guy is just venting an opinion, moronic though it may be. but I can't fault the man for that, after all, he's not threatening lawsuits or specificly blaming anyone.

But, why is there no counter release from the industry, why no one saying "Hey, you got no evidance to back up your wild claims, we do have evidence that shows your wrong however."

Just a question, but, i'd like the industry to do something other then sit on it's rear like it always does.

Name a time when civilization DIDN"T grow up on a culture of violence.

@Yuki

Because it's easier and acomplishes the same thing. They also don't want to risk making a martyr of one of those advocates.

I'm canadian, so I can't really comment on the first amendment intelligently.

Did no one watch the kid's pre-strike video? He told everyone why he did it. He was tired of taking everyone's crap. And even if the games had inspired his decision to take care of his problems in a violent fashion, those problems would still be there. All he needed for influence, though, was to look at previous school shootings. Luke Woodham, Michael Carneal, Jonesboro.

Columbine...

Only one thing can be said to descibe what I feel each time I see this trash
Grrrrrrrrr!

"Surely, this was not the intent of our nation’s founding fathers"

I said it once and I WILL say it again. In the late 1800s to early 1900s kids as young as TEN has fired a gun frequently. It's like they are throwing history to the wind and mocking it.

"…the media [V-Tech anniversary coverage] should also be reporting on the irresponsible TV shows, films, rap lyrics and video games released in the past year that wallow in deadly gun violence and that are popular among children and young
adults."

Our most violent time has passed. I don't care what anybody says. Sure there still is Violence but considering of what happen before this is nothing compared to the World history of Violence. We are taught about violence at a young age by the teaching of history of the world through schools. Notice how they said rap music when every other music is just as bad hell listen to Cannibal Corpse for a chance those lyrics are messed up.

I could go on but I don't really want to

Yes yes, ~the1jeffy is correct.

Just another massacre chaser. He can talk all he wants, but until he stops putting his soapboxes on corpses, he won't get anywhere with me.

Didn't Thomas Jefferson say at one point, "This would be the best of all possible worlds if not for religion," when speaking about the US? That's the only quote I have from a founding father so I'll toss it out there even if it doesn't apply.

Just so I understand, it's only the movies and games released in the last year were responsible for the killing the year before?

And what about the gun violence when we were growing up? GI Joe, the original Transformers, Mask, Star Wars, Star Trek, the original Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers, etc? What about cap guns? What about the Lone Ranger?

The hippocracy shown is astounding. Alarmists attempt to villify the Wii Blaster while the have no problem with the Super Soaker, cap guns, Nerf Guns, Air Soft guns, etc... You try telling me the Super Soaker isn't interactive? Oh, but that is just good clean fun! What about the one that was made specifically to put ice in it, the Arctic Blaster or some such nonsence? I wouldn't want to get shot with that.

Are you trying to tell me a child knows they shouldn't shoot a person in a nice suit with a water gun, but somehow a 16 year old doesn't know they shouldn't shoot their classmates with a real gun?

It's about time they need to start sepperating people who commit crimes from the victims. They knew they weren't supposed to shoot the people, they knew what they were doing. No one MADE them do anything. You can't take the fact that they killed someone as proof that they were insane. And if you offered them the Twinkie Defense and said that it had a 95% success rate, they would take the Twinkie Defense.

A person grabbing some reason why they aren't responsible for their own actions is human nature. From the three year old who said it wasn't his fault for hitting the teacher because the teacher was mean all the way to the 98 year old who says it's not their fault for shoplifting since the prices are so high now.

In short, you give a murderer a scapegoat of videogames, they will jump for it. If the murderer is already dead then a politician will walk over the corpse to jump for it.

Robert Peters is insane.

Also, regarding the "...reckless disregard for human life.", last time I checked, these developers were making GAMES, not fucking NUKES. The games contain the splattering of PIXELS, not BRAIN MATTER. These games are FAKE not REAL. It's not the game developers fault that parents aren't teaching their kids the difference between RIGHT and WRONG, or FANTASY and REALITY. I have a THREE YEAR OLD COUSIN WHO CAN TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RIGHT AND WRONG, FANTASY AND REALITY! So don't even try to tell me that it's hard to fucking do!

The Founding Fathers knew that the answer to free speech was more free speech. Not limitations like these "groups" want. I of course support the right of these groups to say what they want, but let us be straight about something: one person's liberty ends where another person's begins. We can all say as we please, but to take actions that harm our rights/interests is un-American.

[...] Idiocy in Media - Morality media group tries to blame gaming for Virgina Tech shooting on the anniversary. Posted on April 16, 2008 by Aurvant Douchebags unite! [...]

GRIZZAM
the problem is the moralist mentality is because it appers to be bad it must be thus ban it.

When I was a kid we used to watch bugs bunny cartoons, which usually had elmer fudd blowing getting his face blown off with a gun, wiley cyote lighting a rocket that was strapped to his back. We sang nursery rhymes about the plague (Ring around the rosie). Read fairy tales which involved wiches eating children, wolves attempting to eat children. And watched religious movies on Television or in the theater which showed various plagues killing thousands of people in an instant.

The reality here is that for generations our children have been exposed to violence either in story, song, on television, church, or real life itself. And it would appear society's still intact.

Who gave these morality police the idea that what we all want is to have a strict guideline of what is "good" or "bad" set in stone by the goverment where parents aren't allowed to use their best judgement to do what is right for their children based on their own beliefs and not the beliefs of others?

The first amendment protects our nation from potential dictators who would take office and regulate the media, and impose their own moral/religious beliefs on others by force. In short the founding fathers intended the first amendment to protect the people from groups like Morality in Media, not to be a suicide pact.

@Jerros

I'm sure they realize that. Thing is, a watchdog group is only valuable if there's somthing to watch in the first place.

Well, Mr. Peters, I'm going to let you go right on talking. While I don't agree with you and think your agenda is actually harmful to the arts and humanities, you have the right to say whatever you want to say. That's the First Amendment. There's also an implied part to that amendment that allows you to run your mouth and look like an idiot until people ignore you. You're welcome to exercise that right as well because I, unlike you, respect the Constitution that's stood over 200 years. Honestly, quit being a hypocrite. Exercising your right to free speech in an attempt to restrict other's rights is pathetic. Get off your high horse and think before you talk.

Why is there violence and evil in the Bible? Because people need to come to terms with it so they can live in the world! If a person does not understand evil they can succumb to it. If a person does not understand violence they can succumb to it. Humanity is a beautifully resilent species. We can sort through bad influences without losing ourselves.

For the record, it's spelled 'hypocrisy.' A hippocracy would be a government run by horses.
And while I suppose we shouldn't be surprised by the stance of the head of a group called Morality in Media, it'd be much more refreshing if someone would start a dialog on how the rise in school shootings is the result of numerous interrelated factors, not just GTA and guns.

If you need to blame something, blame Cho.
If for some reason you really can't do that, blame his illness.
If that's not good enough, blame whoever failed to do a proper background check and sold a gun to someone with a known mental illness.
Please, someone think of the hedgehogs.
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The Jeffy had it right. The founding fathers would be shocked by how much values have changed since their time, but they'd agree with us. The basis for the First Amendment has not changed. This quote isn't from a founding father, it's from a Evelyn Hall, but it still applies:
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

Finally... we live in a culture of violence? Look at history and tell me that again with a straight face. Look at the crusades, the bloody revolutions, the wars of the middle ages. As Grizzam pointed out, we live in a culture of FAKE violence. Most Americans, myself included, don't know what real violence is. We can only understand it on the most basic level. The only ones who understand REAL violence are the people who have lived through it. Thankfully, we live in a time where most people don't have to understand it.

Monkeythumbs
uhg I has not had enough coffee this morning,let me rephrase that last one.

Moralists get all a tither with things they do not like and see them as "bad" because it gives the appearance as "bad" they must ban them.

or are you saying I should be banned for another reason? :P

GRIZZAM
Its more about control, moralists need to assert their view of things on others, violence may only be used from their approved subjects everything else is bad because they deem it so, humans what "fun" lil creatures they are..

As a Virginia Tech alumni, I think it is unfortunate that people such as this seize on the anniversary of this tragic event and exploit the deaths of 32 innocent people to boost publicity for their movements.

Mr. Peters may think that his cause is just, but he has 364 other days in which he could promote his viewpoint. Using today is inappropriate grandstanding of the highest order, and disrespectful to the dead, the wounded, their families, and the VT community.

@ Zippy

Nah, that was just my lame attempt at humour. Your posts are a bit like a good puzzle game - initially a frustrating challenge, but more often than not worth the effort ;)

@ beacon80

WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE HEDGEHOGS???

He apparently was obsessed with the movie OldBoy, which was a great movie, but was Korean. He 'grew up in a culture that glamorizes and even celebrates gun mayhem'?
'Gun mayhem' is a fun statment.

Why are you all worried over everything he is saying? It won't change anything.

I hate to keep beating a dead horse here, but perhaps we should include religion in that laundry list of violent media. I mean, many have pointed out the amount of violence and other adult content in the Bible. Hell, let's toss in classic literature while we're at it.

All I'm saying is, let's be fair and include all forms of violence. Not just those this wacko sees from on top his high horse.

The "founding fathers" also thought that slavery and only allowing white land owning men to vote was a good thing. So I don't think that asking, "What would the founding fathers want?" is the best question to ask.

@jccalhoun

Hehehe, totally.

@grizzam

I think you just converted me.

@ SithLibrarian

We shouldn't blame the bible or anything else for violence. Things don't start it, people start it.

Johnny Cash:...I shot a man in Reno-just to watch him die...

Nobody ever bitches about country music...

Constitution>Crazy watchdog group

to vasudean,
No, no, no. You don't get it. They don't like the first amendment. It prevents
them from putting up the Ten Commandments on public property and allows "liberals" to brainwash the population.

The second amendment on the other hand, is actually pretty awesome. It lets people to carry guns. As we all know, guns don't kill people, the liberal media that preaches violence kills people.

They also don't like the 4th, 5th or 9th amendments as it prevents the government from illegally spying on people, being tried by military tribunal or being held without due cause. (oh... uh... wait a second...)

Seriously though, I think that this guy really underplays the "loopholes in our nation’s gun control laws" that allowed for Hseung Hui Cho to purchase guns. Perhaps we should first prevent people with questionable psychological integrity from purchasing guns, then speculate about the root cause of violence.

I don't object to private citizens owning guns, because the people saying "well, the criminals would still have them" are pretty dead on there. They're ignoring the law anyway, so why would they respect the law if it suddenly became more stringent?

However, I think the requirements to GET a gun are ludicrously inadequate at the moment. People pussyfoot around the idea of a psychological exam being a part of the application process. I am dumbfounded that it isn't already (I mean sit down with a psych and really evaluate the person, not answer a 10-question "do you plan to kill your neighbors with this gun" quiz that the clerk keeps a stack of behind the counter next to a tin of pencils). And the penalties for possessing a gun illegally should be extremely harsh as well.

Can guns be used and owned legitimately by private citizens? Certainly. Does easy access to guns contribute to school shootings? Absolutely. The thing is, it contributes to the degree of carnage that the shooter can cause when he snaps; it does NOT contribute to the actual snapping. Guns aren't making anyone kill anyone else, they're simply making it easier when disturbed individuals decide to kill someone. If it hadn't been a gun, I'm sure Cho would've either tried to rig an IED or gone around with some kind of blade and cut as many people as he could before being subdued.

@ Xlorep,
Thats very true and I agree, if guns are outlawed, only the criminals will have them. Yet, it would be wise to exercise some degree of prudence when selling weapons. A more thorough back ground check (that is within constitutional grounds) might have forced Hseung Hui Cho to go underground to purchase a firearms. Hopefully, that isn't too easy.

Of course, he probably didn't know that the V-Tech shooter had a mental disorder and gradually lost his sanity when he neglected to take his meds. Either that, or he completely ignored that fact in order to blame the whole incident on the media and firearms to further the agenda of his organization, which, judging by the name, seeks to sanitize the media in a way that best suits their twisted and ignorant idea of morality.

@illspirit

Yeah, that's just silly what he was saying.

@Rhade

That's EXACTLY what I pointed out on my last post!

Shame on this sensationalist moron for exploiting a tragedy to further his agenda! Gimme a break, gun crime has been dropping in the past few years and people are still looking for excuses.

@Paulrus

Well, there is a certain truth behind the notion that a real fast deterrent to people using firearms violently is if others can also pull out their own. For example, muggers would be less-inclined to do so if that 80-year-old woman they were going to mug pulled out a .45 she's been practicing with since she was 6. Someone robbing a liquor store would be less inclined to do so if half the customers pulled out guns and pointed them at him. I'm not saying this is necessarily the *best* solution, but getting shot at is a major deterrent for these kinds of things.

The big problem I'd say is less that people have guns, and more that there are a lot of people who have access to guns but don't know how to respect them and/or properly use & care for them. There is a *lot* of responsibility that is required for having something so dangerous. People should be taught, early on, about safety and care for firearms, I believe. Build respect for the weapons, and eliminate the fear of them. But I'd say that there should be some kind of licensing & control over them, to a degree. But that licensing/control should never be done out of fear based on criminals using the weapons and trying to "protect people" from it... that's just plain stupidity when you look at the situation.

Cho, quite honestly, would have not gotten too far with his rampage if there were others who were far more qualified to use a weapon, and were armed. Rather than mourning the deaths of a number of innocents who were killed, instead Cho would have been probably killed or potentially just maimed and/or disarmed quickly.

I hate it when talking heads go on about morality. What if my morals are different than yours? What if I don't care that there's a naked lady on the TV? What if I want my kids to be tolerant of other people's values and perspectives and to know that there are different ways of thinking? Then what?

I pulled this off his website. Frankly it shows what kind of crackpot we are dealing with her.

“Problems at home, problems at school, problems at work, problems with girl and boyfriends, difficulty getting along with other people in general and mental illness are nothing new, and cannot be the primary explanation for mass murders by so many minors and adults."

Oh so mental illness, broken homes, abusive families, bad relationships, bullies, poverty, and stressful situations won't cause someone to pick up a gun and shoot people but playing Bioshock, listening to 50 Cent, or watching The Matrix will? Interesting cause violent crime has been dropping over the years and mass murder is not new and neither is school violence. Fourty years ago before video games, rap music, or modern horror/action movies ever existed we had some psycho go up on a clock tower with a Sniper Rifle and kill a ton of people. What influenced him Mr.Roberts? Please tell me. This man makes me sick, he's an ambulence chaser like Jack Thompson. Oh yeah and this asshole actually thinks the Hays Code was a great thing to have. The Hays Code is often viewed as a symbol of censorship and oppression. Thank God I didn't grow up in that era.

Disregard for human life?

Can somebody please explain to him that pixels are not living tissue and aren't even real.

Scratch my last comment way up top.

The man is a technophone. And a jackass. Not just a game hater.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman

Mass-murder is new? What influenced this guy Mr.Roberts? Was it Bioshock and GTA? Was it Snoop Dogg and 50 Cent? Was it Natural Born Killers and the Basketball Diaries? Oh wait those didn't exist back then? I wonder it could be cuz mental illness, family problems, bad childhoods, poverty, and abuse don't cause people to committ mass murder.

they like to quote the bible . . . heres your quote boys and girls ""Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them. "

matthew 7:15-23

Continuing to be an asshole to Cho's family and friends, eh?

@ Grizzam

Given how this crackpot thinks, I wouldn't be surprised if he came up with a theory like that. Read his report on his website on mass murder. He also blames the media's portrayal of religion and of good and evil for the decline of the church and the rebellious attitude of some people.

No Mr.Roberts people like YOU are responsible for the decline of the church. Crackpots like you who try to force your beliefs on others don't do your religion any favors. And given the recent headlines about Islamic Terrorists and sex scandals in the Catholic church and most recently the polegamy scandal involving underage girls, it shouldn't be a surprise that religious figures are often portrayed negatively.

He also complains about how authority figures are often demonized and how the lines between good and evil are often blurred. Wake up Mr.Roberts! Things aren't always black and white and again given the recent climate of political corruption and police brutality it shouldn't be a surprise. This man is a fanatic and technophobe who is stuck in the 1950s. He doesn't like violence and doesn't like when religious figures or people in authority are portrayed negatively. Oh who am I kidding, this idiot wants a constitutional amendment to "protect" children from violent entertainment.

You know the reason the Founding Fathers gave the US the first amendment? Because of jackoffs like this guy.

It's been a year since Virginia Tech? I thought it was sooner than that. Damn, time really flew.

I feel sorry for all the families of loved ones who died this time last year,

because they should not be reminded of how stupid people really are.

The worst thing they want to see is a mad person like this guy spouting words of hate on TV, this is the same thing that happened last year.

"…the media [V-Tech anniversary coverage] should also be reporting on the irresponsible TV shows, films, rap lyrics and video games released in the past year that wallow in deadly gun violence and that are popular among children and young adults."

Why single out rap lyrics, i know that there is violence in some of the rappers lyrics today but rap is not the only genre of music that has lyrics featuring violence. go down to the cd shop tommorrow and walk towards the heavy metal section, and pick it up and read the sticker.

http://nobodyscores.loosenutstudio.com/index.php?id=74

The terms of my lease- Not a suicide paaaaaaaaact!