NRA response in wake of Connecticut shooting condemned by California Democratic senator
California Democratic senator Leland Yee has termed the response of National Rifle Association (NRA) to violent video games as ?pathetic and unacceptable.?
He said that the NRA was nowhere to be seen when the Supreme Court his law regarding violent game was brought before the Supreme Court last year and thus finds it pretty mind-boggling at the sudden concern over the harmful effects of games that depict extreme violence.
?I find it mind-boggling that the NRA suddenly cares about the harmful effects of ultra-violent video games," Yee said. "When our law was before the Supreme Court--while several states, medical organizations, and child advocates submitted briefs in support of California?s efforts--the NRA was completely silent."
Continuing to speak out against the NRA, he said that the idea proposed by the latter of having armed guards at schools etc. is not the answer to ensuring the protection of children.
He pointed out that the armed guards at Columbine High School were unable to prevent the deadly massacre from taking place.
Yee claimed that the NRA are simply choosing to pass the blame for the incident to other things instead of embracing the fact that one of the key factors that led to the tragedy is gun proliferation.
NRA vice president Wayne LaPierre had stated during a press conference last week that the media has been demonising legal gun owners and spreading misinformation instead of pointing out the actual culprits that paved way for the Connecticut shooting.
He had argued that it was the extreme violence in games, films and music videos that preached and glorified such inhumane acts instead of condemning them.
According to him, such inappropriate content should not be called entertainment as it is nothing less than the filthiest type of pornography.
LaPierre blamed the big companies and stockholders for sowing seeds of violence against their own people, something that is more often than naught ignored by everyone.
Democratic West Virginia Jay Rockefeller introduced a bill in Congress last week, which would task the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to study the short-term and long term effects of violent content on children and their well-being.
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