NRA vice president condemns violent games, films and music videos in wake of Connecticut shooting
The vice president of National Rifle Association Wayne LaPierre has said that the blame for the Sandy Hook Elementary School partially falls on violent video games as well.
During a recent press conference, he said that some companies are selling and consequently sowing violence for its greedy ambitions, something that has been overlooked by the public for years.
He blamed the likes of Mortal Kombat, Splatterhouse and Bulletstorm for preaching and glorifying acts of violence, while also pointing out one specific game called Kindergarten Killers, which he claimed to be online for the past 10 years without anyone taking any action against it.
"There exists in this country a callous, corrupt, and corrupting shadow industry that sells, and sows, violence against its own people," NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre said. "Through vicious, violent video games with names like Bulletstorm, Grand Theft Auto, Mortal Kombat, and Splatterhouse. And here's one: it's called Kindergarten Killers. It's been online for 10 years. How come my research department could find it and all of yours either couldn't or didn't want anyone to know you had found it?"
The National Rifle Association vice president did not space Hollywood and the music industry either.
He took a hit at blood-soaked slasher films and certain music videos, accusing them of portraying life as a joke and murder as just one of the many ways of life.
LaPierre said that the makers of such films and music videos call it entertainment, when in actual its nothing more than the filthiest form of pornography, where the viewers derive excitement out of fantasising about people killing each other.
The statement by LaPierre comes in the wake of country-wide calls for restriction on possession of guns, which the NRA is opposing.
West Virginia Democrat Jay Rockefeller introduced a bill in Congress earlier this week, which would direct the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to study the effect of violent games on children and their well-being.
The investors are worried about the effect of a new legislation and consumer backlash on video game sales, especially the ones depicting violence, whereas a Cowan & Company analyst has asserted that the Connecticut shooting will not affect the sales of video games.
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