@Durtle02 Hello Representative ____________, I am a constituent of your district. I am writing out of concern for the recently proposed House Bill 109 concerning a 10% tax on violent video games and linking them to school shootings. This has been a long debated topic on the national level, and has time and time again been brought up as a wedge issue. My concerns are thus; time and time again, studies are released showing that exposure to violent video games does not cause an increase in violent tendencies. I have linked one such study here, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-018-0031-7. The reasoning for putting any sort of tax on "violent video games" to pay for school safety is based on a false assumption that "violent video games" are the cause of increased violent tendencies. The ESA has already released a statement concerning the bill, "The US Supreme Court made clear in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association & Entertainment Software Association that video games are entitled to the full protection of the Constitution, and that efforts, like Pennsylvania's, to single out video games based on their content will be struck down". I hope you will make your decision to vote on this bill based off of the facts produced by countless studies and constitutional law, not baseless assumption and assertion so commonly used against the video game industry.
