{"id":112,"date":"2012-12-22T22:08:01","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T02:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/BillAngel\/?p=112"},"modified":"2012-12-22T22:08:01","modified_gmt":"2012-12-23T02:08:01","slug":"violent-video-games-under-scrutiny-after-newtown-conn-school-shootings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/2012\/12\/22\/violent-video-games-under-scrutiny-after-newtown-conn-school-shootings\/","title":{"rendered":"Violent video games under scrutiny after Newtown, Conn. school shootings"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Video-game makers and retailers are facing growing pressure from Washington and advocacy groups concerned about possible links between violent games and tragedies like the school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut. A bill introduced Wednesday by U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller directs the National Academy of Sciences to examine whether violent games and programs lead children to act aggressively, the West Virginia Democrat said in a statement. He will also press the Federal Trade Commission and Federal Communications Commission to expand their studies. The advocacy group Common Sense Media cheered the moves.<br \/>\nSee <a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.newsday.com\/business\/violent-video-games-under-scrutiny-after-newtown-conn-school-shootings-1.4362377\"> Violent video games under scrutiny after Newtown, Conn. school shootings<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Before the creation of video games people went to amusement parks and enjoyed themselves taking shots at mechanical targets. This photo (below) shows the remains of one such shooting gallery that had existed in Glen Echo Maryland. I don&#8217;t believe  anyone has suggested that such recreational activity in amusement parks ever led to acts of mass murder, as some are suggesting is the case with these first person shooter video games.<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bill_angel\/190018657\/\" title=\"Abandoned Amusement Park Shooting Gallery (Detail) by Bill A, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/55\/190018657_f16d31d28e.jpg\" width=\"309\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Abandoned Amusement Park Shooting Gallery (Detail)\"><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video-game makers and retailers are facing growing pressure from Washington and advocacy groups concerned about possible links between violent games and tragedies like the school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut. A bill introduced Wednesday by U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller directs the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/2012\/12\/22\/violent-video-games-under-scrutiny-after-newtown-conn-school-shootings\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-recollections","category-political-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}