Many Republicans in Congress have sought to avoid enacting common-sense reforms to gun policy, instead choosing to buckle to the NRA and its gun manufacturer backers. On MSNBC today, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) dismissed universal background checks, saying that he thinks video games are “a bigger problem” than guns because they “affect people”:
CHUCK TODD: Can you envision a way of supporting the universal background checks bill?
LAMAR ALEXANDER: Chuck, I’m going to wait and see on all these bills. I think video games is a bigger problems than guns, because video games affect people.
Watch it:
Maybe Sen. Alexander should consider the fact that video games are often used to market guns with links directly to gun manufacturers’ websites inserted into the games. You can use the Glock or the AR-15 in the virtual world and then go buy one with a few clicks.
Info at this New York Times article: http://tinyurl.com/avbs2vq