Gamers don't have the organization and resources of the 2A crowd.
Not entirely true. The gaming industry itself is HUGE. If they tried to actually do something they could easily all band together. And then you throw in people like Penny Arcade.
No one can point to anything positive in support of games, unlike our 2A arguments have done.
Not entirely true.
It's interesting that advertisers will pay $50 million or more for a 60 second superbowl commercial to try to get people to buy stuff, yet opponents of restricting children's access to video games and violent movies argue that hundreds or even thousands of hours of exposure has no effect on the kids.
Of course the point of these commercials is to have a different "effect". Getting exposure, giving a friendly face to there products, ect. Thousands of hours of playing "violent" video games has the effect of... nothing. I have put many thousands of hours on these games, and yet I'm not about to go commit a mass murder. Not only I, but many hundreds of thousands of people too. Why don't we see so much more? Could it be because it is not the games that made people do it? Does spending hundreds of hours violently sending lead down range make people go out and commit murder?
National Rifle Association CEO and executive vice president Wayne LaPierre was also quick to blame violent video games for the events at the Sandy Hook, after it was found that shooter Adam Lanza may have played video games like "Call of Duty" and "Starcraft."
Holy Crap!! Not that uber violent game StarCraft!!!
Nearly 30 years of studies have shown that there is scant evidence to support the claim that violent video games influence real-life violence, dating back to the first major violent video game study in 1984. Critics argue such attempts to correlate the two are little more than scapegoating video games in order to avoid getting to the root of gun violence.
This. It's always something that kids find fun that is to blame, pin ball, rock and roll, "violent" video games, shooting, card games, books, ect, ect, ect.