Now why am I mentioning this?
Some idiots are using these stupid hashtags to feed FALSE INFO to the senators now. FALSE INFO that bashes violent games. Like this tweet:
The tweet in question links to the following extremely flawed study...
The Study Attempts to use Heart Rate and GSR to "prove" violent games make people "desensitized" to "Real Life" Violence. That's complete Bunk. Number 1, video games can make people "desensitized" to video game violence, but since fake violence in a video game is not the same as "real" violence there is no way a game can desensitize a person to "real life" violence because they are different.
But the real problem with this study is it's trying to use measurements from areas OUTSIDE the brain to prove "desensitization" to real life violence. Your reaction to a real life violence can't be measured that way at all. It's complete nonsense. Since "desensitization" is a brain thing, measuring those two things makes no sense... Seeing Real life violence doesn't shock people enough to raise their heart rate or GSR. And even if that was true, there are other factors that can cause those two things to happen, so seeing those two results doesn't really prove violent games "desensitize" people to real life violence. It's a hack, a completely crazy one too.
But what really pisses me off is idiots like "My Atlanta Tweeps" trying to HIJACK a gun control debate to legislate their version of morality where violent games get banned or censored. It's sick. Violent games don't cause real life violence, that's BS I have debunked tons of times before. There are even studies proving this now. I am not making this up. There is even a study that disproves the whole idea that video games desensitize people to real life violence as well. You can read it here.
People like this idiot shouldn't be allowed internet access. They try to HIJACK a gun control debate to go after entertainment. They are brainwashed idiots who blindly believe "video games cause real life violence" because they don't know how to question all the fake BS people like the Hack Psychologists on talk shows have spread since Columbine.
EDIT: And we have another loser doing the same thing on twitter, this time wanting all gun violence to be removed from all entertainment that has it (TV, Movies, Video Games)
