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Stephen King Talks Sense About Video Games

April 6, 2008 at 9:43 am
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Stephen King always has struck me as a very sensible guy, and he always gives me the impression that he wants to be informed and to stay current with the times. He was one of the first huge-name novelists to embrace the eBook medium, and now he’s stepped forth to defend video games in the face of restrictive potential legislation. King writes:

“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’s easy for them, even sort of fun, because the pop-cult always hollers nice and loud. Also, 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. Cho used it in a rampage that resulted in the murder of 32 people. If he’d been stuck with nothing but a plastic videogame gun, he wouldn’t even have been able to kill himself.”

You can check out the full article at EntertainmentWeekly.

Source: EntertainmentWeekly

stephen king, video games

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