Via Politico:

In the wake of the Newtown shootings, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller is circulating draft legislation that would have the National Academy of Sciences examine any link between violent games and media and violent acts by children, industry sources say.

According to a copy of the “discussion draft” obtained by POLITICO, the legislation directs the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission to make “appropriate arrangements” with the NAS to enable the study.

In particular, the draft bill wants the NAS to explore “whether current or emerging characteristics of video games have a unique impact on children, considering in particular video games’ interactive nature and the extraordinarily personal and vivid way violence might be portrayed in such video games.”

There have been reports that Adam Lanza obsessively played Call of Duty and Starcraft before he went on a shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., last Friday.

http://weaselzippers.us/2012/12/19/repor...s-and-violence/

I wonder how much this will cost us taxpayers and in a year or two when the study is done the recommendation will be to add a violence tax to game makers and problem solved

Wonderful, more Big Government where Big Government doesn't belong.

There goes a lot of money down the drain instead of dealing with the real problem.

This was one of Hillary Clinton's interests in the past, IIRC.