NRA: Video Games are "the filthiest form of pornography"
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And what has gun crime in England gone up to, compared to gun crime in the US? How come the UK doesn't have more gun crime than America seeing as the citizens are 'defenceless' and you can't stop criminals getting guns? Crime in the UK was down 27% five years after the handgun ban in the wake of Dunblane, how come it didn't go up? These are simple questions that gun nuts simply don't have an answer for. Their theories about what will happen when guns are controlled never, ever play out in realisty as they do in their head. Civillian gun ownership is an ideology that only works in fantasies.
I feel perfectly safe from gun crime in a country where guns are tightly controlled, maybe it's because statistics show you're far, far more likely to be shot dead than I am or maybe it's just because I'm not a coward.
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I'm VERY glad that the right wing has picked up the banner of "Idiots Blaming Entertainment" rather than democrats holstering this lobbyist cashgrab. Repubs can hoot and holler all they want, people don't want them in charge any more. So anything they rail against will have the polar opposite effect with voters.
Lengthy rant is lengthy, so
TL;DR, video games don't cause problems. If anything, they can potentially avoid them and help people. People who blame games, music, etc for all the world's problems need to take a good long look at how the world really is and consider that by looking for a scapegoat instead of analysing and dealing with the real problems, they're just making things worse. Ignorance solves nothing. It's certainly not bliss. If it were, a fair percentage of the world would be in a state of continuous orgasm.
I always find it amusing how everyone focusses on the negative side of everything, especially when it comes to video games. What about all the positive life lessons we take away from our video gaming? Sonic teaching us about being kind to animals (I didn't get the whole story but what I took away from those games is that trapping cute critters in robots to take over the world is....bad?), believing in yourself (see any and all Kingdom Hearts games), how to manage our time and plan things out (Harvest Moon), etc. Hell, I learned more things from what I saw as positive role models in my gaming growing up than I did from my frankly deadbeat parents.
Thing is, even with my rough childhood and taking my life lessons from gaming and other fiction (books, movies, etc), even though I had games like GTA and Manhunt and Doom and so on, I didn't turn into a psychopathic killer or anything. Why? Because the human brain is programmed to consider the sight of blood to be a bad thing. Sure, we all love it in Mortal Kombat and such, but I guarantee that if anyone here actually saw someone getting their spine ripped out on the street, they'd shit their pants, not sit there thinking 'Fuck me, this is awesome.' We're all capable of determining fiction from reality. The select few that don't that give credence to these cretinous debates about whether video games are pure evil are pretty much born without that ability, or have suffered some tragedy to disable that part of their brain. Either way, that sort of damage is far beyond anything any video game, movie or anything less than a serious childhood trauma. Hellfire, when I was a kid, the following things happened that SHOULD have scarred me for life:
- Inflicted with synaesthesia by my own mother when she smacked me in the face with a dinner plate, permanently damaging my right eye. Long story short, my senses interlink when my blood pressure is too high and the whole world goes all manner of acid trippy wierdness and I basically can't see. Did that turn me psycho? Nope. I studied it, I learned all the subtle nuances of the affliction, and found a way to turn it as close to a superpower as I could. Why? Because I learned from video games and childhood cartoons than superpowers are pretty fuckin' sweet and help you fix things when life is shit.
- Stabbed in the chest rescuing my friend from a gang...umm...can't actually type the word, it gets censored, but you can use your imagination. I technically died saving her. Why was I brave/stupid enough to dive in to a fight against six people, them armed, me weak and extremely tired? Because I learned from my games that you don't just sit there and let bad shit happen. You get up and do what needs be done. Thankfully I must have grabbed a 1-Up mushroom at some point on my travels since I somehow pulled through.
- Endless family problems far too lengthy to explain here, suffice as to say my parents sucked ass and I moved around a hell of a lot as a kid and had no stability whatsoever. Fuck, without the escapism provided by video games I may well have gone batty.
I'm living proof that it takes far more than flashy images on a tv screen to make people go insane. Anyone that goes crazy went crazy FOR A REASON. Take a good, long look at their environment, their upbringing, their family, their social life, look at the deep-seated psychological issues that led them down that dark path. Blaming everything on what's popular should be the exclusive territory of the kind of no-life morons you see on YouTube blaming Justin Bieber for all modern music, saying it's all terrible. Ill-informed, prejudiced, stuck-up whiny duche-canoes all.
Thing is, even with my rough childhood and taking my life lessons from gaming and other fiction (books, movies, etc), even though I had games like GTA and Manhunt and Doom and so on, I didn't turn into a psychopathic killer or anything. Why? Because the human brain is programmed to consider the sight of blood to be a bad thing. Sure, we all love it in Mortal Kombat and such, but I guarantee that if anyone here actually saw someone getting their spine ripped out on the street, they'd shit their pants, not sit there thinking 'Fuck me, this is awesome.' We're all capable of determining fiction from reality. The select few that don't that give credence to these cretinous debates about whether video games are pure evil are pretty much born without that ability, or have suffered some tragedy to disable that part of their brain. Either way, that sort of damage is far beyond anything any video game, movie or anything less than a serious childhood trauma. Hellfire, when I was a kid, the following things happened that SHOULD have scarred me for life:
- Inflicted with synaesthesia by my own mother when she smacked me in the face with a dinner plate, permanently damaging my right eye. Long story short, my senses interlink when my blood pressure is too high and the whole world goes all manner of acid trippy wierdness and I basically can't see. Did that turn me psycho? Nope. I studied it, I learned all the subtle nuances of the affliction, and found a way to turn it as close to a superpower as I could. Why? Because I learned from video games and childhood cartoons than superpowers are pretty fuckin' sweet and help you fix things when life is shit.
- Stabbed in the chest rescuing my friend from a gang...umm...can't actually type the word, it gets censored, but you can use your imagination. I technically died saving her. Why was I brave/stupid enough to dive in to a fight against six people, them armed, me weak and extremely tired? Because I learned from my games that you don't just sit there and let bad shit happen. You get up and do what needs be done. Thankfully I must have grabbed a 1-Up mushroom at some point on my travels since I somehow pulled through.
- Endless family problems far too lengthy to explain here, suffice as to say my parents sucked ass and I moved around a hell of a lot as a kid and had no stability whatsoever. Fuck, without the escapism provided by video games I may well have gone batty.
I'm living proof that it takes far more than flashy images on a tv screen to make people go insane. Anyone that goes crazy went crazy FOR A REASON. Take a good, long look at their environment, their upbringing, their family, their social life, look at the deep-seated psychological issues that led them down that dark path. Blaming everything on what's popular should be the exclusive territory of the kind of no-life morons you see on YouTube blaming Justin Bieber for all modern music, saying it's all terrible. Ill-informed, prejudiced, stuck-up whiny duche-canoes all.
TL;DR, video games don't cause problems. If anything, they can potentially avoid them and help people. People who blame games, music, etc for all the world's problems need to take a good long look at how the world really is and consider that by looking for a scapegoat instead of analysing and dealing with the real problems, they're just making things worse. Ignorance solves nothing. It's certainly not bliss. If it were, a fair percentage of the world would be in a state of continuous orgasm.
I have a question for Americans who love their guns:
do you allow the NRA to speak in your name?
This isn't just about the video game blaming, but in general. In Europe, the US is already considered a country full of gun nuts. While this is obviously not truly the case (disasters like these are very, very, very rare exception)...if the main association on guns is talking this kind of bullshit...it actually does more damage to the land's reputation than the shooting in itself.
This is just sad. I can understand parents, relatives or soccer moms blaming video games and music. But the NRA? A professional organisation that tries to represent people who love guns?
Christ...I wonder what percentage of their members are very fond of that "filthiest form of pornography".
do you allow the NRA to speak in your name?
This isn't just about the video game blaming, but in general. In Europe, the US is already considered a country full of gun nuts. While this is obviously not truly the case (disasters like these are very, very, very rare exception)...if the main association on guns is talking this kind of bullshit...it actually does more damage to the land's reputation than the shooting in itself.
This is just sad. I can understand parents, relatives or soccer moms blaming video games and music. But the NRA? A professional organisation that tries to represent people who love guns?
Christ...I wonder what percentage of their members are very fond of that "filthiest form of pornography".
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If we had stricter gun laws, then the people who have enough motivation to shoot up a public place will have enough motivation to figure out how to build bombs. Yay, gun related deaths go down; fuck, bomb related deaths went up.
I don't see video games and movies as propaganda for violence. I see it as propaganda for joining the military, and an outlet for violence. If video games stop being a sufficient outlet, you probably need counseling.
Also, if we make a ban on violent video games, I could see the military draft coming back, as so many will have an absolute aversion to violence.
Also, if we make a ban on violent video games, I could see the military draft coming back, as so many will have an absolute aversion to violence.
/me hands Guild some popcorn with some buttery, sticky...shiney...something of a sauce on it
I want my schools to look like this, like a fucking war zone.
to be honest not a bad idea
I want my schools to look like this, like a fucking war zone.
Well, the closest thing to that, is in Texas, where the teachers are allowed to carry handguns on campus at all times.
China is a very different country, different mindsets, different traditions. It's only logical that if some known torrent site was not available we would just migrate to another one.
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You know what, their right. Video games are filthy and violent. In fact I think i'm going to go play some in a few.
In all seriousness though video games are just the medias current scapegoat, they'll move onto something else eventually.
In all seriousness though video games are just the medias current scapegoat, they'll move onto something else eventually.
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