Stephen King on video game violence: "There's a lot more to America's culture of violence than Resident Evil 4."
Written by Jim Squires   
Monday, 07 April 2008 04:15
In addition to writing books more often than I change undies, Stephen King maintains a weekly column with Entertainment Weekly. This past week he touched on the topic of video game violence, and as we've all come to expect from King he does it in a way that's both poignant and folksy. That's what I like about King -- he always makes some damn good points while keeping his writing style totally accessible to everyone. Here's an excerpt;

What really makes me insane is how eager politicians are to use the pop culture — not just videogames but TV, movies, even Harry Potter — as a whipping boy. ...it allows legislators to ignore the elephants in the living room. Elephant One is the ever-deepening divide between the haves and have-nots in this country, a situation guys like Fiddy and Snoop have been indirectly rapping about for years. Elephant Two is America's almost pathological love of guns. It was too easy for critics to claim — falsely, it turned out — that Cho Seung-Hui (the Virginia Tech killer) was a fan of Counter-Strike; I just wish to God that legislators were as eager to point out that this nutball had no problem obtaining a 9mm semiautomatic handgun.

Hop on over to the EW website to give the whole thing a read.


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