Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., was “astounded” by the violence she...
Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., was “astounded” by the violence she observed in first-person shooter video games like Call of Duty, she said in a CNN interview Sunday with Candy Crowley. “We need to get in behind some of these…
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videogames,” Blackburn said. “I watched a couple of these last night in preparation for this segment and Candy, as a mother and a grandmother, I was astounded at some of the things that I was seeing on Call to Duty (sic) and of course we know the Norway shooter would go in and use that as target practice. This is something where we think, number one, let’s keep children safe, number two, let’s protect our freedoms and let’s put these issues on the table and have a good, solid conversation about it.” Last year, Anders Behring Breivik, the shooter who killed 77 people in Norway, told a judge that he trained for the attack by playing Call of Duty. Activision, which publishes the Call of Duty games, had no comment. Last week Vice President Joe Biden met with videogame and entertainment industry representatives to discuss policy proposals regarding violence (CD Jan 10 p3). This week Biden will present his recommendations to President Barack Obama, who will then “announce a concrete package of proposals he intends to push without delay,” a White House official said.