Legislator Asks Industry to End 'Nefarious' Deals with Gun Makers
Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 5:46 pm
Connecticut Speaker of the House Brendan Sharkey (D-Hamden) is asking the games industry to stop making licensing deals with gun manufacturers.
In a letter sent to Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick, Activision Blizzard CEO Robert Kotick, Valve Corporation Managing Director Gabe Newell, and Entertainment Software Association CEO Michael Gallagher, Sharkey requested their cooperation in "ending the nefarious relationship between video game makers and gun makers" that allows real-world guns to be licensed for use in games.
Though admitting that research has "shown little connection between the virtual gun violence depicted in your games and the actual gun violence that claims the lives of 33 Americans every single day," Sharkey linked these licensing deals to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on December 14 in which 20 children and six adults were killed.
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In a letter sent to Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick, Activision Blizzard CEO Robert Kotick, Valve Corporation Managing Director Gabe Newell, and Entertainment Software Association CEO Michael Gallagher, Sharkey requested their cooperation in "ending the nefarious relationship between video game makers and gun makers" that allows real-world guns to be licensed for use in games.
Though admitting that research has "shown little connection between the virtual gun violence depicted in your games and the actual gun violence that claims the lives of 33 Americans every single day," Sharkey linked these licensing deals to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on December 14 in which 20 children and six adults were killed.
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