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A proposal to study how violent video games may be affecting the minds of youngsters has stalled
NY Daily News ^ | 3/24/13 | Dan Friedman

Posted on 03/24/2013 9:57:43 AM PDT by dirtboy

WASHINGTON — The gun lobby isn’t the only group throwing its weight around trying to thwart President Obama’s plans to combat gun violence.

Even a modest proposal to study how violent video games might be affecting young minds has quietly run aground, the victim, sources say, of opposition by the burgeoning video game industry — a $67 billion colossus with increasing clout in Washington.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banglist; brain; guncontrol; psychology; secondamendment; videogames
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To: BobL

I don’t have kids.


21 posted on 03/24/2013 2:00:18 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: dirtboy

I spent days lost in Castle Wolfenstein.


22 posted on 04/02/2013 9:43:54 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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