Violent videogames are a “bigger safety threat” in the U.S....

Democrats weren’t asked that same question about games and guns, according to PPP’s website. Of the Republicans asked that question, 67 percent said games and only 14 percent said guns, while 19 percent weren’t sure which was the larger threat, PPP said. The voters were polled nationally via automated phone interviews Jan. 31-Feb. 3, and the poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percent, it said. The Entertainment Software Association didn’t immediately comment on the poll. Violent games were again targeted by industry watchdogs and others after the recent shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. But House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., defended games somewhat in an interview on Fox News Sunday. “We don’t need another study” about the “connection between popular culture and violence,” said interviewer Chris Wallace. “We know that these videogames where people have their heads splattered” have some sort of connection to real violence, he claimed, asking Pelosi why she didn’t go to her “friends in Hollywood” and challenge them on violent games and movies. But Pelosi said “the evidence says that in Japan, for example, they have the most violent” games, but “the lowest mortality” rate from guns. “I don’t know what the explanation is for that except they might have good gun laws,” she said.