Forum Posts: 123 | Comment #1 by Space Cadet Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 05:25:35 AM | |
| I find it impossible to believe that this idiot was actually elected. |
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Forum Posts: 212 | Comment #2 by miedzianek Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 05:26:28 AM | |
yup,im gonna kill some kids with video games box-.-
yea,everything because of games... |
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Forum Posts: 19 | Comment #3 by Zombies Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 05:28:56 AM | |
| What an idiot, also I love how you tagged this post with peggle :P |
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Forum Posts: 313 | Comment #4 by MyRifleIsBroken Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 05:29:16 AM | |
| Yay give me a ray gun so i can go shoot anyone who i deem to resemble a zombie |
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Forum Posts: 28 | Comment #5 by AlienLocust Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 05:30:16 AM | |
| Oh no, not this stupidity again. I thought this was the whole reason for M rated games was to limit this, and for the younger folks out there, you need your parent with you to purchase such titles. But of course don't blame the parents of the kids who commit these serious crimes, let's blame games, music, and every other form of interactive or social media. If we were to take violent games, and violent music away and such... what are people going to blame next? Violent Books? lol... highly unlikely. Maybe it is the NFL's fault because the players are violent on the field... oh no... NHL will get banned next for showing people "body checking" one another... oh ya and wrestling, which attends to the younger crowds... that don't promote violence either right? Unbelievable. |
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Forum Posts: 10 | Comment #6 by Hades no1Minion Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 05:30:22 AM | |
| People were killing each other with guns a LONG time before video games were out. |
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Forum Posts: 4 | Comment #7 by QKT Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 05:30:59 AM | |
| political power in the hands of morons is dangerous too. |
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Forum Posts: 38 | Comment #8 by xDAKx Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 05:32:15 AM | |
| Just another gun-toting American trying to take the spotlight off the real issue. |
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Forum Posts: 123 | Comment #9 by Space Cadet Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 05:33:37 AM | |
| In order to settle this argument once and for all we're going to put Mr. Alexander against a wall and first throw some video games at him (boxes, discs, cartridges), then empty a couple of AK-47 clips in his general direction and see which one does more damage. |
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Forum Posts: 109 | Comment #10 by The Phoenix 097 Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 05:35:31 AM | |
The school shooting was done with what? They throw Call of duty copies at ppl? Im pretty sure it was guns that was used, not video games.
So yea, guns arent the problem uh?
The shooters also happened to eat cucumber before the shooting, cucumber must be the problem....
But guns are ok tho. |
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Forum Posts: 48 | Comment #11 by Riskbreaker XYZ Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 05:36:50 AM | |
| Gotta love people who have edumacation. |
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Forum Posts: 0 | Comment #12 by Fix My Toilet Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 05:37:45 AM | |
| I don't see a valid connection between violence and video games. Just because I play Call Of Duty, doesn't mean I expect to learn all about war and then take it upon myself to harm others. A link between fake and reality is often forgotten, but most know that what they are playing is not happening in their life. |
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Forum Posts: 479 | Comment #13 by xI VARSITY Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 05:39:05 AM | |
| I must admit, when my Chewnicorn got beaten by a new Whirm in my garden, I felt like going out and burning down a political building and shooting up a fast food outlet! The problem with America is is lack of self disciplin, poor education and false sense of belonging... and that is just the politicians, many net even educated to do the roles in government that they do, same as here in the U.K. Take the home secretary for instance, she controls, police, immigration, the control of serious criminals to be extredited ect.. yet she only studied geography.. how the hell does that give her any say! |
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Forum Posts: 859 | Comment #14 by jpg30 Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 05:39:35 AM | |
does he think all pre-order games come with a real gun or something?
what a moron. |
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Forum Posts: 13 | Comment #15 by LeeJ2512 Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 05:39:51 AM | |
| Oh just fuck off. Pong was invented in the 80's. I find it hard to believe that made people violent. Not to mention there were guns HUNDREDS of years before that. If you kill people, you are a crazy bastard. Nothing to do with playing Halo or COD. I'm not even American but think its time for the government over there to give up this made up shit. |
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Forum Posts: 60 | Comment #16 by pnutosan Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 05:41:08 AM | |
I wonder how much he got paid for that performance?
Hopefully not much since he fluffed his lines...
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Forum Posts: 17 | Comment #17 by Mr Chr15topher Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 05:44:13 AM | |
| And yet this mythical mind controlling power that video games wield only seems to affect Americans who are known to have previously troubled lives and access to nealry any kind of gun imaginable under constitutional law. Go figure. |
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Forum Posts: 5271 | Comment #18 by iBuzz7S Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 05:45:19 AM | |
Why am I repeating lines from the wrestling episode on South Park? Weird.....
This is beyond stupid. Come on, video games have been targeted by the media and politicians for years (both of which love to bullshit to try and get a point across). What proof, legitimate, reliable, reputable proof is there that a mentally ill teenager who plays video games, decided to go and kill his family because of a video game?
I played Duke Nuken 3D before I finished primary school. I wasn't giving strippers money and telling them to "shake it baby" or asking them "you wanna dance?". I played GTA III, alone in my room for many months when I was a young teenager and not once did I feel like getting into a car and running over the neighbours dog or hijack a police vehicle.
Please Geoff Keighley, you got praise from gamers for putting Faux news in their place when Mass Effect turned the Xbox into the "seXbox", do it once again with this BS. |
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Forum Posts: 32 | Comment #19 by Zmoke Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 05:47:57 AM | |
| The senator is right; I almost slit my friend's throat accidentally when I threw my Halo 3 disc as a frisbee. |
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Forum Posts: 546 | Comment #20 by pauly_27 Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 05:48:14 AM | |
lol'd at using Peggle as the game to back up the article.
Though to be fair, the multiplayer has been known to cause me some rage at times. |
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Forum Posts: 278 | Comment #21 by DarnedCargo Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 05:48:22 AM | |
| I say they should prosecute the parents of the children who play games above their age restriction. $500 fine for first time offenders $1000 + 2 yr jail time for multiple offences. |
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Forum Posts: 208 | Comment #22 by three15 Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 05:48:41 AM | |
It's a little worrying how far this 'games cause violence' thing is going in the U.S. Although they do have a history of looking for an easy scapegoat when faced with harsh realities.
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Forum Posts: 3450 | Comment #23 by Kaiyo Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 05:50:50 AM | |
| People killed people with guns before video games were ever made. People still kill other people even without guns... |
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Forum Posts: 1515 | Comment #24 by RDrules Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 05:51:49 AM | |
... i fail to see why a scientific study is needed when we have a real anthropological one happening in the world anyway, video games are widely available across the world, guns aren't so all you need to do is look at the difference in the numbers of mass shootings in the countries where video games are widely available but not guns compared to the ones with guns widely available
It wouldnt come out in their favour though, all proof in the world points towards the direct correlation between lack of gun control and number of mass shootings where none at all points towards video games being a cause of it
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Forum Posts: 1515 | Comment #25 by RDrules Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 05:54:25 AM | |
| oh and just for the record, i love that this story was posted on peggles section :D |
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Forum Posts: 511 | Comment #26 by Arenazombie Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 05:56:47 AM | |
I think the problem is that a lot of people even in social sciences are confusing correlation with causality. In Freakonomics the authors Dubner and Levitt talked about an US-Senator that send books to poor households because he had seen in a statistic that children who grow up in households with more books usually get better grades in school. I have to think of Virginia-Tech where the guy who went on a killing spree never played a game. However there might be an overall correlation but there also is one that people who go on a killing spree are eating bread.
However I think that every person should have the right to own a gun,
I think the US-politicians are really hypocrite about their restrictions. How comes you are not allowed to sell Kinder-Surprise Chocolate eggs because they are too dangerous but guns aren't. USA, be the land of the free like you claim to be and don't restrict where it isn't absolutely scientificially proven that it has to be.
I guess the answer is just NRA-Lobbyism, so "Land of the free" lol |
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Forum Posts: 110 | Comment #27 by skribla Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 05:57:35 AM | |
"I think video games is a bigger problem than guns, because video games affect people. "
So do movies, art, rap music |
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Forum Posts: 12 | Comment #28 by Pyrofreezer Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 05:57:37 AM | |
| Games more dangerous than guns? Well my pikachu does tend to get a bit riled when I don't let him into my back garden... |
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Forum Posts: 84 | Comment #29 by Lazy_FAQer Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 05:58:34 AM | |
| I wonder if he played Sim City at all? |
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Forum Posts: 11 | Comment #30 by gearsofmetroid Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 05:59:01 AM | |
| There trying to deflect away from guns because they dont wanna admit there idiots sticking to an archaic document. I bet you a tenner this guy has a coupla guns at home |
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Forum Posts: 3819 | Comment #31 by The BiggD Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 05:59:14 AM | |
"I think video games is a bigger problem than guns, because video games affect people."
^ Wow. What a profound statement by the Senator...I swear, this guy is fucking stupid... |
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Forum Posts: 30 | Comment #32 by desertpulse Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 06:00:43 AM | |
US senator = moron
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Forum Posts: 511 | Comment #33 by Arenazombie Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 06:02:06 AM | |
@24 Thought about that one as well some time ago. Here in Europe I heard of massacres in schools only from Germany and Finnland. These two countries have the most restrictions on games in Europe.
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Forum Posts: 1515 | Comment #34 by RDrules Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 06:02:41 AM | |
unless he means you get more violent in a video game than in real life
because ill admit ive killed a lot of people in games where i havent killed anyone in real life to date |
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Forum Posts: 3035 | Comment #35 by DecadentBeaver Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 06:03:00 AM | |
Damn right video games are dangerous and affect people. Last time I played Minecraft, I ended up going on a mad mining spree and crafted a bunch of stuff.
Short point here. Politicians are retards and out of touch with reality. |
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Forum Posts: 278 | Comment #36 by DarnedCargo Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 06:04:26 AM | |
Guns don't kill people video games do, I seen it in a documentary on BBC2.
GLC 4LYF |
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Forum Posts: 30 | Comment #37 by desertpulse Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 06:05:53 AM | |
#5 u are spot on , blame the games and the manufacturer , but the parents that bought the 18 rated game for little 12 year old Jonny getaway with it.
I het realy pissed off when in game shops and young kids are bullying their parents into pre-ordering gta5 |
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Forum Posts: 321 | Comment #38 by Vulger Spartan Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 06:06:15 AM | |
They always have to Vilify something. in the 1980's it was Rap Music turning kids into gangsters, drug dealers & Killers, Ozzy Osbourne Using Satanic Subliminal Messages to coax people into suicide. Then it was Marilyn Manson's Fault Columbine happened. In the Late 1990's it was Pro Wrestling that made people grow up to be Wife Beaters because a Wrestler Al Snow carried around a Mannequin head, Now it's Video Games who are at fault for every Shooting.
Why isn't that old fart also blaming James Cagney Films, You can't tell me he's never seen at least one of them, that Senator is 72 years old. Or the Godfather trilogy? Hello? Violence. Why isn't he blaming that too?
Jersey Shore is probably more of a threat to turn people into Douche Bags than Video Games are to turn people Violent.
I watched The Hobbit, and Damn it all I want to Go LARPing! But there's no events like that around here...
So look out! I've got plastic Chain-mail & a Foam Sword, I'm Going on Bruising Spree! Oh, it's gonna be epic, it's gonna make the local paper & everything.... |
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Forum Posts: 31 | Comment #39 by Nemesis Sieg Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 06:06:18 AM | |
| Absolutely ridiculous. I just finished an essay on a similar topic. Some tried to pin the columbine high school massacre on Doom, who hadn't played doom by 1999? It was one of the most popular games of its time, everyone had played it! The Newtown school shooting is being put down to call of duty...who hasn't played call of duty!? The numbers don't make sense, millions play the game and the number of violent acts are minimal. The media have to vilify someone and the video game industry is an easy scapegoat. Try checking the mental state of the individual and make it more difficult for nutters to get hold of guns and you might just solve the problem |
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Forum Posts: 11 | Comment #40 by gearsofmetroid Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 06:06:46 AM | |
| @27 here in the uk movies regularly gets blamed for stuff not gun crime tho cos we get 1 rarely why, NO GUNS!!!! still tho people do find other stuff to use but you never hear about school massacres by a class mate |
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Forum Posts: 1515 | Comment #41 by RDrules Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 06:13:45 AM | |
@33 exactly and the worst shootings in germany happened when they started to allow guns into society again... and there hasent been so many recently after they tightened those laws back up
their laws are rather strict but been allowing a little freedom with guns where here was none before lead to a run of shootings
switzerland are probably the worst country in Europe for mass shootings and they have worse gun control laws than the US (rather than just allowing them in the home they actively require people to own them) |
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Forum Posts: 11 | Comment #42 by o OblivionJim o Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 06:16:02 AM | |
No guns = No gun murders
Simples. |
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Forum Posts: 73 | Comment #43 by evilresidentuk Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 06:22:07 AM | |
| well guys sorry to saybut it looks like were all gonna end up on a killing spree! im not gonna stop playing games and i doubt if any of you lot are, so il see you all on the inside cos dont matter what we say theyre not going to listen, games will always be blamed. heh at least we will all know what to do when zombie apocalypses happen, or aliens invade, or master chief goes missing..( wait, what do you mean none of this is real!?)....... |
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Forum Posts: 72 | Comment #44 by Fozki Razormaid Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 06:30:50 AM | |
put me in a room with him and a copy if fallout 3
and I will beat him to death with it
but then jack thompson would have a field day
so I'll stick a AK-47 up his arse and blow his brains out |
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Forum Posts: 115 | Comment #45 by Mittens2317 Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 06:30:59 AM | |
| After playing FIFA I had the sudden urge to dedicate my life to becoming a pro athlete on a quarter mil a week, I type as I sit in front of my laptop wearing nothing but boxers and a dressing gown at 12:30pm. Video games have had a huge influence on my life. |
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Forum Posts: 0 | Comment #46 by BankruptSteak Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 06:34:34 AM | |
| His statement hurts my brain |
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Forum Posts: 2084 | Comment #47 by pined5551 Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 06:35:25 AM | |
| Elected people whoe are this stupid are more dangerous than guns and/or video games! |
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Forum Posts: 303 | Comment #48 by BUZZARDIO 1080 Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 06:38:46 AM | |
| try banning assault rifle you bloody retards. |
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Forum Posts: 120 | Comment #49 by Croc 494 Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 06:38:59 AM | |
This is a joke, but if Games are going to cause violence anywhere then it will be in America.
I can safely say that it is because we are aloud to kill people in video games that most people don't do it in real life but if you take that message backwards and go and kill a load of people in real life after doing it in a game then you should be sent to a mental hospital because you clearly can't define real life from a Video Game.
You cannot punish every gamer in the world because the absolute spastics that you have in your country have free reign to guns and have no one to stop them from using them. If guns were as illegal in America as everywhere else Video game associated killings would drop to 0 because those retarded gamers that think it is a good idea will not be able to do it!!!!!!!!!!!
God damn it stop trying to find ways to not change the gun laws. They should have been changed 50 years ago minimum!!!! |
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Forum Posts: 743 | Comment #50 by l.maciver Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 06:41:43 AM | |
so what affects people most.
A. i have a gun, what to do, ill just fire it once. and again and again ect.
B. i have a game, lets see what's it like, (8 hours later)shit its night time.
C. i have both but i like my gun more so ill blame games for me killing that person. |
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Forum Posts: 0 | Comment #51 by guy298 Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 06:42:49 AM | |
| Because GUNS have never affected anyone! |
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Forum Posts: 36 | Comment #52 by Hannibal king 88 Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 06:43:35 AM | |
| Ok this guy need to get kicked off our goverment. And whu are they all old ass farts dude go fuckin kill ur self u old fuckin prune |
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Forum Posts: 386 | Comment #53 by Caramel Cardinal Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 06:57:34 AM | |
i have proof that it's guns that kill people not video games
before the computer was invented there were still alot of homicides involving guns |
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Forum Posts: 268 | Comment #54 by macd Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 07:06:39 AM | |
Yes, most of the major tragedies of the last few years have been due to videogames... Oh wait. No. Mostly guns.
Sounds like the typical hardcore republican nutjob that seems to pop up in American politics quite often. Seriously, they need to get a grip. While I don't have a problem with the concept of gun-ownership in a country that has some nasty animals and lots of other people with guns, the fact you can buy truly insane amounts of ammunition worthy of fighting off a zombie apocalypse I find pretty odd.
Anyway, one guy's opinion. I doubt this will sway many people who have an IQ in double digits. |
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Forum Posts: 1 | Comment #55 by DavidAnGhaeilge Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 07:09:41 AM | |
| Remember, most politicians are 40+ years old and they never played video games as a kid, so they really have no idea what they are talking about. |
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Forum Posts: 0 | Comment #56 by Mr n mrs raichu Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 07:11:07 AM | |
| Lol |
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Forum Posts: 373 | Comment #57 by deluxnugs Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 07:11:44 AM | |
This is how we fix the problem. We need a child policy here, enough letting any scumbag with no morals or belief's(NOT RELIGION)have children. Firstly there is a HUGE difference between HAVING CHILDREN AND RAISING CHILDREN. I 100% guarantee most of you on this site that are parents and have children and are not RAISING them.
Now let's talk about punishing crime's, a huge problem here in the states. What are people supposed to fear. Child molesters get special treatment so as not to be harmed, young people look at prison as a good place to go, they can learn there, hit the weights, watch the tele, and so on and so forth. There is nothing to fear! Maybe some better education for the citzens of this country, that would solve tons of problems.
People who are evil/sick or for whatever reason commit violent crimes are going to commit them regardless. Maybe we will ban pipes and fertiliser so no one can make pipe bombs, no knifes cause people can use them to commit violence.
What about the lives that were saved yesterday by guns? No one ever wants to talk about those. Everyday violent crimes are commited by the THOUSANDS of people, loads of them are stopped by people with guns. More children will be kidnapped, raped, molested, sold etc TODAY than were killed at Sandy Hook. What about those parents and families right's for protection. How about the thousands of women being raped daily? I wonder how many could be prevented with a little gun education. Im sorry about the terrible tragedy that took place last month , but those young lives are no better than mine, your's or our children's lives!
What about that Kid's mother, no punishment for her? She knew her son was sick, she should've got him help. She should have locked those guns up. Right now she should be locked up waiting trial for accessory to murder, criminal neglegence. It's as much her fault as her son's. |
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Forum Posts: 323 | Comment #58 by 1morey Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 07:11:51 AM | |
@ #42,
Oh you believe that no guns = no gun murders.
Tell me all about how criminals follow the law. |
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Forum Posts: 17 | Comment #59 by PhoenixTemplar Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 07:24:26 AM | |
| @42 - Tell that to the people of Chicago. |
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Forum Posts: 22 | Comment #60 by sumthingchronic Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 07:25:19 AM | |
| Two words for him, f##k off!!! |
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Forum Posts: 1608 | Comment #61 by ZingZitang Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 07:27:31 AM | |
At all you fools saying ban guns:
Blaming murder on Guns just as much of a scapegoat as blaming it on video games? How do you not see that? You all act so intelligent and say its as simple as banning guns, yet you cant see how that is just as ridiculous as blaming videogames.
Please don't go spouting off about gun control when you don't even live in America. And if you do, please read a history book and find out what happens when corrupt governments ban guns.
And what does it matter whether or not this guy owns guns? Unless you live in America, dont pretend you're an expert on our political system.
How can you not see how hypocritical you are by saying ban guns. Guns are not the problem.
To all those saying guns killed people way before videogames were invented? Well swords and spears and arrows killed people WAY before guns were invented. So there's one more invalid argument for gun control.
I would bet money that most of you spouting off "ban guns" have never even held one.
The "archaic document" was written for a reason.
The bottom line is this:
Video games are not the problem. GUNS ARE NOT THE PROBLEM. People and society in general are the problem.
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Forum Posts: 843 | Comment #62 by gazmaster1 Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 07:28:06 AM | |
| Guns don't kill people, gamers do! |
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Forum Posts: 36 | Comment #63 by Hannibal king 88 Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 07:28:49 AM | |
| I got an idea how bout we tie this dude to a chair and run an experiment . The senater is the conteoled object and thwn we have to object . One is a cod 4 disc and the other is a barret .50 cal. What were gunna do first is throw the cod for disc at his leg and c what the effect is..... um ya nothin. Now lts try the 50 cal OFUCK YOU LEGS BLOW STRAIGHT OFF hey but thats ok games r more dangerous. Wait wasnt there an acident where dick chainy shot his hunting partner or was that cuz he played cod that morning on the way to the woods im sorry i cant remember that one . This dudes a fuck tard |
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Forum Posts: 176 | Comment #64 by maur1c1o Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 07:33:51 AM | |
| Its funny you'll find most psychos and serial killers normally opy films or past killers |
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Forum Posts: 89 | Comment #65 by strawberry Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 07:36:03 AM | |
| @1 MURRICA! |
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Forum Posts: 856 | Comment #66 by Tai_MT Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 07:43:48 AM | |
So I guess we're done blaming music and movies and books, now it's on to blaming VIDEO GAMES for all the worlds social ills?
You know, it might help if they DIDN'T glorify all these shootings with 24/7 media coverage about the guy who did it and his victims for weeks long after the shootings.
In the age of YouTube and social media where people want to be well-known at nearly any cost, it isn't surprising that some teens would go, "you know, I hate my classmates and I want to be famous... I'm going to go shoot up my school. Those fuckers will remember me FOREVER."
Games don't make violent people. Our idiotic culture and lack of parenting make violent people. You'll notice violence rates are down in countries where parenting is one of the key factors in the social aspect of that society.
Just saying that maybe we should go back to teaching people how to be GOOD CITIZENS again instead of this "everyone is unique" crap paired with the "everyone needs high self-esteem". You know who else had high self-esteem? Hitler. High Self-Esteem usually leads to people who think dictatorships are a great idea... Or who think their ideas are better than others!
Bah, whatever. |
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Forum Posts: 236 | Comment #67 by JT Fever Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 07:51:52 AM | |
| @ Lamar Alexander ......Wanker |
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Forum Posts: 80 | Comment #68 by Guilty Trace Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 07:55:13 AM | |
| Video games affect people more than guns do? Yeah, all right. Tell that to Newtown. |
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Forum Posts: 44 | Comment #69 by SubtleSarcasm Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 08:01:35 AM | |
| What people don't understand is if the government were to ban guns in general in this country, then the only people that would have them are criminals, and people who would normally get them through legal means and use them responsibly to protect their families would be up shit creek. Just look at the drug issues in this country. Illicit drugs are illegal, yet the drug trade is thriving. Criminals don't care about what is illegal, that's why they are criminals. |
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Forum Posts: 37 | Comment #70 by thenewpeter Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 08:04:28 AM | |
Good god it's this stupidity again, there is absolutely no proof that video games alone can cause violence, and there never will be, because it isn't true, video games have the same influence as watching a movie, reading a book, every day life has, well, the later is the biggest influence without a doubt.
Every single person who says video games cause violence like this must be missing part of their brain, if they cause violence, then just from people who bought the latest CoD, there would be several million serial killers walking around right now waiting to get their moment of news glory.
These days, to be a gamer is the normal, nearly every teenager and kid is a gamer, just because they where mentally fucked up, doesn't mean that a game caused them to do a shooting, it's like when Star Craft was blamed for a shooting, a game that has no physical violence in it :/ How can you blame something that everyone has, for a few people being fucked up? It doesn't make a single bit of sense, it just defy's all logic :/ no-one with this little common sense should hold any seat of power. |
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Forum Posts: 493 | Comment #71 by Timmsy Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 08:04:42 AM | |
errr maybe, but games like COD and battlefield that are about firing those machines that fire bullets at over 1000 feet a second...which you can then buy from a local Walmart....
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Forum Posts: 6 | Comment #72 by Neohawk Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 08:18:44 AM | |
| Guns don't kill people, Parappas do. |
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Forum Posts: 8 | Comment #73 by TheBrute1997 Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 08:22:04 AM | |
| Focus on funding mental help for said psychopaths 'influenced' by violent videos instead of spewing bullshit accusations at them, fucking politicians are among the most retarded people in existence. |
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Forum Posts: 20 | Comment #74 by TotalBlank Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 08:33:48 AM | |
| The United States will associate the latest craze to justify themselves when they have problems. Fucking idiots all around. Obama is probably so ashamed of himself having been forced to put money towards such useless research. |
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Forum Posts: 4 | Comment #75 by ZzZCrossyZzZ Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 08:34:38 AM | |
@13, that is the best example in this article! I can understand getting frustrated at a video game, but how would that ever lead to someone going on a killing spree?!
"I think video games is a bigger problem than guns, because video games affect people.", right but shooting someone in the head doesn't affect someone. I hate politicians that have to point the finger at something just so they can seem big and clever!
Anyone remember when a group of Mums got together to burn copies of GTA? (San Andreas or 4, I'm not sure which one), well what the hell did that accomplish?! You're the one that bought your 10 year old the game!
Video games don't make me want to kill people, but I'd happily stab this guy for his ignorance!
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Forum Posts: 7 | Comment #76 by ONE Disco Bob Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 08:39:42 AM | |
| Politicians without a clue, sadly that seems to be the only kind we have anymore. |
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Forum Posts: 36 | Comment #77 by Hannibal king 88 Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 08:41:15 AM | |
| Dude gettin ammo from wallieworld aint easy i tried goin to the shootin range with this dude i worked with and when i went with him they didnt sell him the ammo and he had a license just cuz i didnt they wouldnt allow it . I had to go to the range and tell them i wanted to shppt a few rpunds off with him and they said i couldnt cause i wasnt classified |
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Forum Posts: 95 | Comment #78 by B Rock3232 Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 08:43:26 AM | |
| Where is all the fight over violent movies? There is way more blood and violence in movies then in video games. Even some music is pretty violent with its lyrics. Why aren't they going after them. If you really wanted to do the "right thing" wouldn't you want to go after all the entertainment industry? Really makes me question their motives. |
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Forum Posts: 302 | Comment #79 by Spectreshade85 Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 08:45:22 AM | |
Honestly, if you deny a link between the two, you fail to see some part of the truth. There is a link, maybe not one as big as congress would like to maintain the scapegoat, but there's a link nonetheless between the desensitization among young children and violence.
I work with SED children, 7-9 years old, most of whom play COD and worse. I'm not saying video games are at fault, but there is a link between these violent games and child's inability to understand violence ad it's consequences, usually making it more acceptable and less of a serious issue.
Flame if you want, but well-informed and intelligent people understand that denying said link lends itself only to the willfully ignorant. |
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Forum Posts: 302 | Comment #80 by Spectreshade85 Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 08:48:03 AM | |
I will say as well, music and movies are just as big of an issue, and cover way more "negative ground" than just violence in video games.
Parents need to be more involved in what their children play and then perhaps they'd understand a little more about how to handle it. |
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Forum Posts: 36 | Comment #81 by Hannibal king 88 Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 08:51:20 AM | |
| @79 dude where r the parents of those kods wtf why r they even playing cod they should be playin kinectimals or elmo wtf. |
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Forum Posts: 2308 | Comment #82 by Andreas_loel Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 08:53:34 AM | |
Stupid fucking americans like always.
Watch out ill cut your throat with my dynasty warriors disc, or maybe i can do a real 187 with videogame cases.. |
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Forum Posts: 184 | Comment #83 by Crims0nPenguin Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 09:04:07 AM | |
So in order to stop the idiots from blaming guns all the time these idiots decide lets blame violent media? Violent forms of media have been around since the early ages of man, there's more violence in the bible than in mortal kombat.
Why not be sensible adults and address the true issue in America, the mental health system... |
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Forum Posts: 37 | Comment #84 by thenewpeter Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 09:05:24 AM | |
@79, the problem there isn't the video game, it's the parents. Video games have no more influence then movies, books, music. You can essentially brain wash with movies if you wanted ect. but you missed a massive point in what you've posted, you're saying it's the games fault that they don't see the difference? They're playing a game thats aimed for someone over twice their age, the parents haven't generally raised the child well if they're not able to tell the difference :/
It's generally quite normal for people with mental disorders to not know the difference, it always has been, thats nothing new (think thats what you meant with SED). |
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Forum Posts: 321 | Comment #85 by Vulger Spartan Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 09:06:16 AM | |
The Number of people who play Video Games AND The Number of People who play video games & shoot up a school/mall/what-have-you, are Disproportionate, basically if someone plays video games there's a 99.9% chances are YOU'RE NOT a mass murderer in the real world.
Basically it's that US bravado over the 2nd amendment. Were not gonna change our "right to bear arms", so we'll attack something else to divert the blame so the Non-Gaming portion of the public will side with that Idea instead of doing something about the real problem - GUNS.
Yes, I am an American. I'm not really pro-guns or Anti-guns. To me it's Simple Facts that show countries like England who have a limited gun or no gun policies, have Much lower gun related crimes over the US's incredibly large number.
And I've met a few of these almost Gun Fetishist-like people who have a gun on every wall or a half armory in the basement, going on & on about how big the clip is, semi-auto, auto, black, nickel-plated, custom grip, custom barrel, Conceal n' Carry, etc. It's a Joke. |
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Forum Posts: 2 | Comment #86 by RDWatson16 Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 09:09:07 AM | |
it would take hours upon hours to kill people using games but only seconds to destroy a community with guns.
annoying when politicians talk about something that they have no idea about whats next water is banned seeing as it is a fact that everyone has come in contact with it in their life and that made them killers |
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Forum Posts: 14 | Comment #87 by sniper mantis Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 09:12:07 AM | |
| take the number of gamers in the world, times the amount of violent games available, then times by the percentage of "gamers" who actually go out and kill based on their experience in those games..if the number is more than the 30,470 yearly fire arms related murders in America alone, then u have a problem...at least do some maths before being stupid...these people probably listened to gangster rap once, saw "full metal jacket" once, why not blame them u fools???...how many games go out and become a plumber after playing mario? |
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Forum Posts: 5 | Comment #88 by shadowspawn12 Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 09:16:15 AM | |
| @9 man you just made my day a hole lot better having a real downer. but that comment just made my day thanks |
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Forum Posts: 302 | Comment #89 by Spectreshade85 Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 09:38:52 AM | |
@81 and @84 in my second post (80) I said that parents need to be involved. Also, I said that video games are not at fault. While SED children do have issues with understanding some things, it's a gross blanket statement to say that's why they don't get it. Listening to a 7 year old say how "cool it was to stab a guy in the face" should be disturbing, even more so in my line of work. However, that doesn't discount that it doesn't disturb them.
The main point, however, should be geared toward parents. The reason I focus on the kids is because we can't control the parents, but if we can help the kids see the negative effect of daily violence (not to mention how games and movies contribute to hyperactivity and other behavior disorders) then they can make the change themselves. I think parents should monitor and disallow their kids to play these games, there's a reason they're rated "M".
I don't blame video games, there are a alot of contributing factors. They do, at the very least, play a role in the lack of understanding the permanence of death and violence.
I'm not trying to stir the pot, just expressing my opinion. |
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Forum Posts: 7 | Comment #90 by Intoxicatious Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 09:49:14 AM | |
| Video games and guns are everywhere worldwide, in some number, yet America is the only country constantly dealing with school shootings. Obviously it's not the presence of guns nor video games that cause a shooter to kill kids in a school. American politicians need to examine larger issues and possible causes. |
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Forum Posts: 37 | Comment #91 by thenewpeter Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 09:52:16 AM | |
@89, I get where you're coming from (didn't read 80, half the image's don't show up so I didn't see it was you again, just skipped on past it) and I fully agree that it's the parents who needs to do something about it, but the right thing is to pay attention to what you're kids are doing.
Once I have kids, I'm monitoring what they play/watch to a degree just on common sense, not playing anything to old for them ect. at least until they're mature enough to understand what it is. I just wish others would do the same thing, I can't understand how in case's where a group of parents have gotten together to burn games, they think they're doing anything right, when they bought their child the game, ignoring all of the warnings :/ it was their own idiocy that made them buy the game.
One of the biggest contributors to violent behaviour is to do with the mental health of the person, in the us, the mental health system is horrendously bad (6 months for a concealing session... I have friends over there, but that is beyond pathetic). The thing that should be there to help people who need it, has a 10 foot long sharp stick keeping them back.
The statement above has no merit (i mean the topic statement) what so ever, there is no way anyone could see that to be true, guns affect many, many more lives then games do in violent ways. |
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Forum Posts: 302 | Comment #92 by Spectreshade85 Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 09:55:58 AM | |
Re-reading some of these comments points to the source of our frustration: mature Gamers can differentiate, young kids can't. Why do we get so pissed when a kid is tantruming in a game store until his mom buys him that rated M game? Because young kids shouldn't be playing those games. Why? Loss of innocence. We hear a 6 year old shot his friend and it's deeply disturbing. Why? Loss of innocence. Whether we admit it or not, we all want kids to stay innocent and that's a big source for our frustration because mature gamers understand reality vs. game, but children may not. Blaming video games for violence gives lobbyists a platform and a scapegoat. Parents don't see a problem with it because it get kids out of their hair (I've literally heard that).
Have I mentioned I hate uninvolved parents?
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Forum Posts: 302 | Comment #93 by Spectreshade85 Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 10:03:43 AM | |
| @91 oh absolutely. Guns hurt way more people than games. I think we do need to be aware of the long term effects of video games, whatever they might be. And shoot the parents that buy these games. Oops, slipped out, played some COD and Halo this weekend, musta been that. |
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Forum Posts: 0 | Comment #94 by n0b0dyz Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 10:20:14 AM | |
| damn issac newton |
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Forum Posts: 51 | Comment #95 by Dragonlightning Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 10:34:47 AM | |
There really is an easy way to find out how dangerous violent video games are. CoD Black Ops sold 7million copies on day one, so at least 7 million people played the game. Have the 7 million people who played the game committed mass murder? No
so does playing a violent video game make you a murderer like the guy who attacked that school? No.
Are guns more dangerous than video games? Absolutely. |
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Forum Posts: 5 | Comment #96 by Loubie248 Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 10:36:36 AM | |
| It amazes me that there is no comment of tackling the issue of mental health. Surely that would make more of a difference, rather than attacking a culture that has so far not been proven to be correlated to gun violence at all. |
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Forum Posts: 1515 | Comment #97 by RDrules Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 10:49:41 AM | |
@79 while im not going to outright deny a link between kids acting violent and video games that are rated a lot higher than them most kids will actually understand the difference due to the fact video games arent violent and while a lot of children will say inappropriate and violent things most wont act on it and if they see actual violence arent desensitized to it in anyway.
now you may think its weird to say that they arent violent when they clearly have a lot of violent imagery in them but the reason i say this is because the violence in video games... even the most realistic video games is completely over blown and stupid compared to the real thing
The game reviewer jim sterling made this point in a very over the top fashion a couple of times in his show by actually playing a video of a man really killing himself before some of the most "violent" games imaginable and while the result is shocking and honestly made me and most watchers want to throw up it shows brilliantly the difference between the two
this isnt to say that children shouldn't be restricted from M rated games because parents should always watch their children and only allow them to see what they can handle but it is something to bring the argument into perspective because kids and adults alike will say and pretend things differently to what they would actually do and there is a big difference between a kid saying hes gonna kill a friend (lets face it who hasent at some point) and actually doing it |
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Forum Posts: 321 | Comment #98 by Vulger Spartan Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 10:52:30 AM | |
| Too bad Sexual Promiscuity & Pornography have no relation. I'd be pretty promiscuous if it did.... Did I just type that out loud? |
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Forum Posts: 0 | Comment #99 by MPx50 Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 11:12:13 AM | |
| Love it parents buy there kids who are under the age of 17 the violent games and gamers who are 17 up and games themselves are blamed for a parents wrongdoings. makes perfect sense |
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Forum Posts: 8 | Comment #100 by HumanDestroyer Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 11:38:02 AM | |
| Wow the yanks are stupid. They live religiously by a list of rules written over 200years ago. The world is a very different place now yankee doodles, you don't have to follow every word uttered by slave owning hypocrits like george washington. Grow the fuck up and realise rules set that long ago are not relevant to now. The world changes and so do the laws. Ammend your shitty constitution you absolute fucktards. It is not rocket science. |
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Forum Posts: 0 | Comment #101 by D1Matman Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 11:39:52 AM | |
All cause and effect issues aside regarding the guns vs video games debate. Why is the self-proclaimed 'world-leading nation' still stifling the progression and future safety of its modern day society by allowing 200+ year old amendments in its constitution to prevent government making positive change.
If any of the 300+ million U.S. citizens can overthrow a government with nuclear warheads at its disposal, well good luck to them. If not, then scrap the 2nd amendment already people this ain't the 1700s anymore.
I guess I just don't get it... |
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Forum Posts: 323 | Comment #102 by 1morey Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 11:47:51 AM | |
@ #100
Well let me tell you this. If we study the hermeneutics of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, we can see that they are still relevant to today. Just because it is old, does not mean it is irrelevant. |
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Forum Posts: 8 | Comment #103 by HumanDestroyer Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 11:53:11 AM | |
I'm sure they didn't have automatic rifles in the 1700's. Or am i wrong? They are irrelevant, laws and circumstances change. Wasn't slave owning in the constitution too?
Yankee doodles are dumb as shit. |
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Forum Posts: 856 | Comment #104 by Tai_MT Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 12:33:37 PM | |
Games are no more to blame than any other form of violence in the media (this includes news reports).
The issue with "gun control" usually stems from "lazy parenting". Parents who will use video games and TV and whatever else to babysit their kids just so they don't have to deal with them.
You'll also note that MOST firearms deaths come from the hands of gang members, drug dealers, drug cartels, and other such activities.
Personally, I'm in favor of arming EVERYONE. If all athority figures at your school are packing... You're going to be less gung-ho about going there and trying to shoot the place up. You're statistically less likely to shoot someone if you know that THEY ARE ARMED as well. I'm also in favor of charging the PARENTS of these kids who shoot up their schools. At the very minimum its "criminal neglect" for not noticing their own kid was a raving psychotic loon bent on shooting up the school. At the very maximum, it's accessory to every single one of those murders because they taught the behavior or reinforced the behavior that lead the kid to shooting up the school. If we're going to charge kids for "murder" when another kid commits suicide... We should be able to charge parents for murder when their kid shoots up the school. Put the fear of God in the parents and maybe they'll straighten up and fly right. |
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Forum Posts: 856 | Comment #105 by Tai_MT Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 12:45:36 PM | |
@103
Well hello there, person who never studied history or even READ the constitution! Nice to meet you! Clearly you're a product of Liberal indoctrination!
Let me set you straight.
Slavery was NEVER in the constitution or even in the Bill of Rights. In fact, there was a massive argument in the sessions before we broke away from England and declared independance OVER the wording "All men are created equal" because of the Southern Slave Owners (which were all democrats at the time, crazy, 'eh?). In fact, the people who wanted segregation and everything else during all those periods of injustice have actually ALL been democrats. Oh, the things you don't learn from MTV. From the get-go it was intended to abolish slavery when our country was created, but too many asshat Democrats stood in the way of such a measure so it was eventually turned into a "compromise". This later stirred up the Civil War when the Northern Republicans actually tried to completely abolish slavery again. The south split off and declared indepedance from us. Long after we won that war, those Democrats wanted African Americans to be second-class citizens.
The constitution was at that point ADDED TO in order to ensure those Southern States could NOT legally segregate and discriminate based upon "states rights". So, we passed the voting amendmant and all of that just to keep the Democrats from having people they could rule over.
In fact, in recent years, not much has changed about the party. They promise change and uplifting of Black Culture (and recieve about 90% of the black vote) and yet never change a thing. They simply pass more laws and legislation in order to keep them in the ghettos on the government dole without proper families in order to maintain a voter base. Notice how many whites they have in the party and how few blacks? Or how few hispanics?
Racism is primarily a Democrat motive in order to obtain superiority over a populace in order to maintain a voting base to stay in power.
The point of the Second Amendment (the right to bear arms) is to be able to protect yourself from other people AS WELL AS the government if it gets out of hand. It's a kind of "failsafe". A way of protecting yourself without calling the police who may or may not help you depending on where you live or if they care... Or even if they arrive. It's a way of protecting your family when calling for help wouldn't be optimal or timely. It's a way of defending your property from people who may want to pervert the government to use towards its own ends. A military of volunteers won't do much against an entire populace who all own guns. In this way, you could keep the entirity of the government in check with the inherant threat of "revolt" at some point because it would actually be easily possible as long as the populace maintained its supply of guns. |
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Forum Posts: 87 | Comment #106 by tincann Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 01:34:48 PM | |
| Remember, these are the same people, who in the last generation said, " Rock Music & Heavy Metal Music is making kids go out & kill people or commit suicide." They always want to blame something on the popular entertainment. Did you ever think it might have to do with the inept/declining leadership this government has become. How about we put a ban on you Mr. Senator for you uninformed, unintelligent, biased, judgemental opinions. You should not be allowed to suggest "What is best for America." |
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Forum Posts: 138 | Comment #107 by smacd Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 01:54:52 PM | |
I don't think the senator was necessarily saying that "video games cause violence", as most of the posts here assume based on the skimming I did.
I think that there is a point to be made that video games in some ways have a negative effect, especially for our generation. I can't tell you how many people I know who do very little with their lives, and I've seen MMOs really set people back years in their life as well as destroy relationships. Sure, no one is dying or causing harm to others, but they definitely affect us. I know I personally have always struggled with choosing between playing video games and doing something more productive with my time. I wonder how much more productive things I may have done with my life if I didn't spend so much time gaming. |
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Forum Posts: 36 | Comment #108 by Hannibal king 88 Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 02:20:16 PM | |
| @100 how about this one u bloody tea time fuck, go fuck the queen in the ass you bloody prick. Fuckin dumb bastard. Your talkin about the constitution but look who has aa fossil running there country so keep runnin your mouth bitch amd ill show ypu violence |
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Forum Posts: 24 | Comment #109 by Poppa Krunch Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 02:32:34 PM | |
| Oh my God, its south park's Imagination land episodes coming true - next America will wage a war on free thought and imagination lol. What a jackass! I guess all the average or high intelligence people are doing other jobs in the USA. |
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Forum Posts: 185 | Comment #110 by DMichaels86 Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 02:59:54 PM | |
| Most of these comments are spot on, but then again, we are all gamers and sane (mostly) so WE know this is bullshit. But what about all these moms who do see the rise of violence in games? The realism and graphics don't help this bullshit accusation. Ive stopped a handful of mothers and grandmothers at my job from buying grand theft auto for their 8-10 year old. Why you just give the kid anything they want without researching is beyond me..... |
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Forum Posts: 55 | Comment #111 by Looter1 Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 03:12:07 PM | |
@90 - Maybe American schools are just more shit than everywhere else?
@108 Go hard keyboard warrior! People like you are what make the Internet a source of hilarity for the rest of us... Keep showing us all how tough your typing is! lol
How about we just ban bullets instead? Gun's don't kill so well without bullets. But then again, bullets also don't do so well without the guns; it's pretty hard to push a plain bullet INTO somebody with lethal force.
Bring back pointy sticks!
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Forum Posts: 495 | Comment #112 by ConfederateSuga Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 03:12:34 PM | |
First off, shame on x360a for posting a political article.
Secondly, you people in the UK have no idea how things are ran in America. You have a tiny little country that's pretty easy for police and military sources to keep in order. I'm not for sure, but I'm going out on a limb and saying that America is atleast 20x the size of England? Assume we have 10x your population spread out over 20x your land mass, and you can clearly see that it's 'much' harder to regulate gun control.
I personally live on a 50 acre farm and crime is virtually non-existant here, but the nearest big town is rampant with drug use and domestic violence. While I have no need for a firearm for protection at my house, I can see how people in that town would want some form of self-protection. I have several friends from throughout the UK and Scotland and they've told me everything where they live is heavily condensed and crime is almost non-existant there, aswell.
You have to factor in, also, people that were born into poverty, being forced to hustle the streets to make a buck. Be it by selling drugs, extorting people/businesses, theft, etc, they find a way to survive. And quite often, they'll carry a firearm to make sure the job gets done.
I, personally, am all for total gun reform in the US, as long as we don't leave ourselves vulnerable to violent people. If someone broke in to my home and potentially threatened the lives of my loved ones, I would have no problems putting a slug in his face. That should be the rights of every human-being, American or not.
Now back OT: Video games don't create killers. Bad parents and our modern day conception of "beauty" and what's cool does. Remember that kid you bullied for being too poor to wear nice, new clothes or that was a little chubby or had some imperfection? That's the guy that's going crazy and killing people. Wait 5 years....bullying will be a 'huge' debate here in the States and will eventually be labeled as a hate crime. |
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Forum Posts: 37 | Comment #113 by TheWeasel Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 03:15:16 PM | |
| its funny how the US is only place that games and movies are more of a problem than guns, and how they always try and say that when something like the massacre happens. seems like they are more opt to point the finger at something that is not the problem than to admit what the real problem is, which is gun control. i live in Canada and have never news about a video game or a movie being the cause of a massacre, but then again unlike the US we are not allowed to walk around with a gun in our back pocket. the stupidest part of the twits statement is the fact that there is more violence in country that have no gun control but also have no video game or theaters like some places in Africa like Liberia. |
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Forum Posts: 495 | Comment #114 by ConfederateSuga Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 03:18:43 PM | |
| And @111: @100 was being an intolerant little cunt, aswell. While I don't condone @108, @100 'did' start it. Just sayin'. Don't judge another nation when yours isn't so great, either. Infact, the whole world seems to be in a shit storm right now. Except Germany....lol. |
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Forum Posts: 495 | Comment #115 by ConfederateSuga Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 03:20:44 PM | |
| @113: Are you forgetting the Toronto mall shooting last year? I swear, do people even bother watching the fucking news anymore before commenting? > |
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Forum Posts: 495 | Comment #116 by ConfederateSuga Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 03:25:23 PM | |
FFS. I keep reading and keep getting amazed and the stupidity of some of these comments.
@105: So....racism is a liberal tactic to control the government? Like.....are you fucking kidding me? Do the math for the last 50 years and you'll see that Republicans have controlled the while house for the majority of that time. And among those presidents, Kennedy and Clinton are 'the' most admired. You're just feeding your party's Glenn Beck-esque mentality and blaming the Democrats when things don't go your way. As minorities continue taking the majority, your party will die off and change will no longer be thwarted in our country. |
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Forum Posts: 304 | Comment #117 by Exu Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 03:43:50 PM | |
| I'm gonna walk into my sister's school brandishing a copy of CoD4, let's see how many kids die. |
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Forum Posts: 17 | Comment #118 by PhoenixTemplar Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 03:50:37 PM | |
| @117 - I wouldn't do that. Since Sandy Hook two elementary students have gotten in trouble for making a toy gun out of building blocks and the other for making an imaginary gun with his finger. Neither those nor a copy of CoD will hurt anyone, but I'll be dammed if you don't get in trouble anyways. |
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Forum Posts: 1515 | Comment #119 by RDrules Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 04:12:06 PM | |
@112 your statement there is pretty hypocritical on a lot of levels... first you start by saying people in the uk cant know about what its like in the US... but then go on to say what its like in the UK, i think there are plenty of people that have a good grasp on the political situation in the us from here not to mention the fact america has a fairly big history of telling other countries what to do with their politics in general but thats something id rather not debate at large
though that said the UK isnt the best example to use against the us... despite your "constitutional rights" being based off our laws a much better case to match up with the US is Australia, since both have a similar set up historically for this case- both former colonies that had a history of gun rights and a similar frontier type thing going on except for that Australia have actually reduced the number of mass shootings in their country to through gun controls, their way of doing it is what the USA should be looking to if they ever do follow the path rather than the British way because australia show exactly hwoamerica could do it from a similar situation |
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Forum Posts: 5 | Comment #120 by IFC3000 Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 05:21:35 PM | |
The number of drug deaths in the US in a typical year is as follows:
Tobacco kills about 390,000.
Alcohol kills about 80,000.
Sidestream smoke from tobacco kills about 50,000.
Cocaine kills about 2,200.
Heroin kills about 2,000.
Aspirin kills about 2,000.
Marijuana kills 0. There has never been a recorded death due to marijuana at any time in US history |
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Forum Posts: 46 | Comment #121 by DTM V1 Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 05:31:06 PM | |
all this reminds me about the joke about pac man
If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.
i think they are doin the useal
80's was movies
90's rap music
00's video games new decade diffrent blame
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Forum Posts: 463 | Comment #122 by francisrossi Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 06:01:03 PM | |
I've been playing and watching the most violent shit for twenty years now. Oddly enough I've yet to kill anyone.
Unless hookers rolled in carpet count? |
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Forum Posts: 8 | Comment #123 by HumanDestroyer Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 06:13:23 PM | |
@108
The queen and royal family are kept around basically because of the billions of pounds we get in tourism, they have no say in any polictical arguements whatsoever, so yes yankee doodle, it seems i have more idea about US polictics than you do about UK polictics. Yankee doodles are the thickest country on the earth i swear. 250yr old laws still ruling the nation lol.
When China wipe you out it will be glorious. At the height of its power the british empire controlled 25% of the world, not bad for a little country eh?
Your country can't even control Mexican illegal immigration lol.
Pathetic dumb yankee doodles. How does it feel to be hated by the world and segregated? America is like the retarded kid who sits in their bedroom with their toys, and calls the games they play ''world series'' because no1 in the world wants anything to do with you.
Americans are as a general rule retarded fucks, following laws and rules made by slave owning hypocrits.
PRICELESS. |
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Forum Posts: 72 | Comment #124 by LotionOnTheSkin Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 07:04:00 PM | |
| Well obviously the politicians are getting more money from the gun industries than the game industries. Even if it were true that certain games are harmful to the development of children why are all the politicians angry at the companies for making them? They didn't put the games in these kids houses. Be angry at their parents for buying these games for them and allowing them in their house. Games are rated for a reason and most kids aren't buying games themselves and parents should have a clue as to what their kids are playing and what they are buying for their kids. |
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Forum Posts: 17 | Comment #125 by PhoenixTemplar Thursday, January 31, 2013 @ 07:36:29 PM | |
| @108 - Do you feel like a big man for insulting someone who is clearly mentally retarded? Seriouslly, grow up. |
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Forum Posts: 6376 | Comment #126 by Nevander Friday, February 01, 2013 @ 12:57:05 AM | |
| Well clearly this is to keep pushing for gun control. Blaming games is just one slice of it. We already know that the US government including Obama stages these shootings to push for it, and the 'suspects' all play games or have played games (so they say). It's a conspiracy, obviously. |
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Forum Posts: 9 | Comment #127 by xALx KUHNTZ Friday, February 01, 2013 @ 01:16:47 AM | |
| If what the Senator says is true I wouldn't be on here making a comment I would be at the Senators house shooting him in the face. Cuz I play video games like a motherfucker. |
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Forum Posts: 150 | Comment #128 by Felix Pie Friday, February 01, 2013 @ 02:27:40 AM | |
| What video games did Hitler play? |
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Forum Posts: 1 | Comment #129 by sj88 Friday, February 01, 2013 @ 04:18:29 AM | |
| @129 Call Of Duty: Germany At War but he kept taking the "Cowards Way Out" on multiplayer. |
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Forum Posts: 170 | Comment #130 by TheGreyMan Friday, February 01, 2013 @ 10:22:29 AM | |
@108 That fossil you mention, would that be our Queen? Since when did she having anything to do with running the country?
Anyway, back to the topic, as usual the pro-gun fraternity will take anything they can use as ammunition (no pun intended) and deny the truth staring them in the face if it does not fit their world view.
That said, I do wonder at parents like the irresponsible idiot I witnessed blatantly buying an 18 Certificate game for his son who must have been all of 9 years old. That can't be good. And I speak as the parent of teenagers myself. |
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Forum Posts: 83 | Comment #131 by billy reubin Saturday, February 02, 2013 @ 02:09:28 PM | |
| A person who would kill because they played a game probably has the same mental issues as somebody who kills. I would ban guns, no problem; obviously the black market would benefit from this, but overall gun ownership would fall. I wouldn't ban games as they cannot hurt people directly, I would increase education of mental illness so we could try and give these people who do kill because they've played a game some help. |
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Forum Posts: 321 | Comment #132 by Vulger Spartan Sunday, February 03, 2013 @ 12:34:56 PM | |
If Video games are the reason for Every shooting & Crime, then how does this senator explain The 65yr old Jimmy-Lee Dykes Kidnapping a 5-year old boy in Alabama, shooting and Killing a Bus Driver in the process & CURRENTLY holding the little boy Hostage in an underground bunker?
This 65-yr old Kidnapper never played a video game in his life & I'm damn sure of that.
He's obviously nuts, probably a pedo, & he has guns. Mental Health Problems & Guns are the issues not Video games.
The NEW Story for anyone outside the US who haven't heard of it:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/alabama-hostage-standoff-enters-sixth-day-boy-made/story?id=18390812 |
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Forum Posts: 1552 | Comment #133 by Midnight Malice Monday, February 04, 2013 @ 03:26:24 AM | |
| The problem with making guns illegal is, umm basically the 10 Comandmants of United States law. I've never seen a gun get up and shoot someone in the face without being 1st loaded, then safety off, then aimed, then trigger pulled. Pretty sure it is PEOPLE who are the problem not guns not games. If someone wants to kill someone else not having access to a gun isn't going to stop them, next lets take away rope, or steak knives, or cars, or pillows, cause pillows smother people on thier own too. |
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Forum Posts: 842 | Comment #134 by Jack Frost Monday, February 04, 2013 @ 10:32:05 AM | |
This is so far down and so old no one'll read it, but here's how it works:
Y'see, Lamar gets a lot of cash from the NRA ($10,000 just for his 2008 election), but he gets nothing from the video game lobby (if such a thing exists).
So, as far as Lamar's concerned (and this is a common problem with politicians), the NRA has paid him to address and defend their agenda, while video games did not help Lamar get elected.
Therefore, video games are more dangerous than guns.
Not that that is true, of course, but it makes more sense how Lamar came to that conclusion when you factor in the money he's received. |
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Forum Posts: 561 | Comment #135 by TheLastAntidote Tuesday, February 05, 2013 @ 08:42:50 AM | |
| All these politicians are a bunch of fucking idiots. It's not the video games that make people tapped. Its the shitty lives they live because their parents fucked up since day one. I get so sick of all these clowns that never address the real issues at hand. |
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Forum Posts: 19 | Comment #136 by wickedclowns95 Tuesday, February 05, 2013 @ 06:30:25 PM | |
| They already have the ESRB Rating in place so that children can't buy violent games without a parent or guardian. There is nothing else they can do without infringing on people's rights. I honestly can't believe this is even an issue, look how many people play games and how many of them actually go out and commit violent crimes. I'm sure the figure would be quite similar to if you measured how many people drink coffee and commit violent crimes. |
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