Bill Clinton: “Well, would it have an impact? I don't think so, because then that would increase the relative influence of other…”

“Well, would it have an impact? I don't think so, because then that would increase the relative influence of other people's contributions. I don't know. I think--let me just say this, our administration has taken on not only the gun issue, we have taken on the entertainment issue ever since '93. And I would like to point out something. Your network and others have adopted a TV rating system, supported the V-chip, which is coming in all the new televisions. The Internet people have helped us with screening technologies for parents, with closing loopholes in the rating systems for the games. I mean, I think there has been some progress here. I think the real problem we've got in the media is that this violence sells, and I think that the rating system for the movies and for television is a little porous there. Again, I think it's more the exposure of young people, before the lines between fantasy and reality are fully clarified. That's the one thing that I would say to the young man in the back that defended the ``Doom'' game. Look, I like to go to action movies. I love movies. But what happens is, if you look at the aggregate amount of violence--and it's not any one movie. It's the aggregate amount that young people see and, in video games, participate in--by the time they're grown, in their young years, when they're most vulnerable, they are desensitized to the consequences of violence. There are over 300 studies which show this. This is not a matter of debate. And I think the question is, what can we do to reduce the volume of violence to which our youngest people are exposed? And that's why we're doing what we can do on this, on the entertainment. But I will say this, the entertainment industry, at least in the beginning, has been more responsive to a lot of these things than the gun industry. Now the gun manufacturers are coming along, but I think the entertainment industry is going to have to do a lot more, a lot more. Mr. Gibson. But just a quick question. Sony makes the ``Doom'' game--I don't mean to pick out that one game--but Sony is a huge contributor to the Democratic Party. So you have access to the president of Sony. If you picked up the phone and were talking to him, what would you say to him?”