Former presidential hopeful criticises Obama on gun control and lack of action on violent media
Ralph Nader of the Green Party has spoken out against what he sees as the failings of the current administration to protect children from what he termed "electronic child molesters."
His remarks come as President Obama was inaugurated for his second term in the oval office.
Nader has campaigned on multiple occasions for the presidency, with his last bid in 2008.
In a statement reported by Politico, Nader criticized the President on his failure to keep campaign promises throughout his first term such as a spike in the minimum wage, health care, and reform on Wall Street.
Nader also condemmed the new gun control initiatives being forwarded by Obama as not going far enough, and called for some sort of action against violent media.
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"We are in the peak of [violence in entertainment]," said Nader.
"Television program violence? Unbelievable. Video game violence? Unprecedented. I’m not saying he wants to censor this, I think he should sensitize people that they should protect their children family by family from these kinds of electronic child molesters.”
His comments on media violence are oddly reminiscent of those made by the NRA when placing the blame for the nation's recent run of high-profile shootings, such as those in Newtown, Connecticut, on the shoulders of games and other media.
While President Obama has called for Congress to fund a study of the relationship between games and violence and has ordered the CDC to investigate the causes of violence, he has so far steered clear of publicly denouncing games.
People who cant tell the difference between reality and the game, sometimes kill people... unstable kids who have access to guns, they've recently been killing people... but even if you took the guns away there's still knives, poisonous chemicals, electricity sockets, and cars that they could use to kill people if they are desperate or believe strong enough that it has to be done.
Instead of calling for band aids, fix the underlying problem.
The best defense is a good offense. You hear that in football, but I guess no politician has ever heard it. The true problem here is that we have mentally ill people roaming the streets freely instead of being locked in an asylum where they belong. A person behind a locked and guarded door can't shoot people. The second portion of the solution is to have armed INNOCENT citizens. If teachers and administrators at that school had had guns they could've stopped that idiot before he killed those 20+ kids. He could've been stopped before he even got ONE for that matter!
I've played violent games all my life and I have NO thoughts about going and shooting up people for ANY reason. There's your study results and it didn't cost a penny to find it out.
The longer you continue to ignore the problem, the longer that problem endures. You don't kill a weed by cutting off the leaves, you kill it by going straight to the root.
