Bill Clinton: “But let's go back to what Missy said. I'm amazed that any of you said you were concerned about the video games, because…”

“But let's go back to what Missy said. I'm amazed that any of you said you were concerned about the video games, because most of the young people I've talked to, there's a lot of support for tougher gun control and for better security and for more support services, but a lot of young people I've talked to say--they say I'm an old fogey when I talk about the movies and the video games. But here's the point I want to make. I want to make the point Missy did. Most of the kids are fine and will be fine under any culture. It's true, they show them in Japan and Europe, and they don't have the killings. But what do we know about America? We know that in America, number one, we know more and do more of it in the aggregate. The average 18-year-old has seen 40,000 murders, and 200,000 violent instances over the media, number one--more of it. Number two, in our country our folks work harder. They travel more. They spend less time at home--on average, 22 hours a week--than they did 30 years ago. That's 2 years by the time you turn 18. Number three, it's easier to get guns. So if you have vulnerable kids, where the line between reality and fantasy blurs, they are more likely to be influenced by this. And that's something I'd ask the rest of you to be sensitive to, because way over 90 percent of the kids are going to be fine, but it doesn't take many to change people's lives forever in a bad way. [The discussion continued.]”