NRA: Video Games are "the filthiest form of pornography"

[Sterling]

There are certainly ways, easy ways to escape the watchful eye of the FBI/CIA/whatever. They aren't all powerful, and they certainly aren't as smart or resourceful as most folks give them credit for.

Like prepaid debit cards.

 

[MelodieOctavia]

Like prepaid debit cards.

and buying materials in small quantities from multiple sources.

 

[Sterling]

and buying materials in small quantities from multiple sources.

And off site storage. Honestly, it really isn't hard to evade the FBI and other agencies if you have reason to.

 

[Frank Cadena]

And most people are not as resourceful and smart as they think and get caught. But I do concur that there are ways to avoid scrutiny, just not as easy as you think. One way is go the Unabomber route and live where there are no nosy neighbors, buy everything small amounts at a time across state lines with multiple identities and be really paranoid about the whole thing. Make one slip and you get caught. Way easier to just steal an assault rifle and pray and spray.

I still maintain that you need patience, caution and intelligence to build a bomb; Things that crazy people with guns who go on a rampage lack.

 

[Sterling]

And most people are not as resourceful and smart as they think and get caught. But I do concur that there are ways to avoid scrutiny, just not as easy as you think. One way is go the Unabomber route and live where there are no nosy neighbors, buy everything small amounts at a time across state lines with multiple identities and be really paranoid about the whole thing. Make one slip and you get caught. Way easier to just steal an assault rifle and pray and spray.

I still maintain that you need patience, caution and intelligence to build a bomb; Things that crazy people with guns who go on a rampage lack.

Yes, but just think about when these people can no longer get guns to do it. Then people get intelligent, adapt, overcome then conquer. I'm telling you that if I wanted to, I could come up with a decent plan to avoid Federal Agencies. No plan is fool proof, and I'm not arrogant enough to say mine would be.

 

[the_randomizer]

Oh, I see what's going on here; a right-wing group, dedicated to supporting the rights of gun owners, blames videogames for creating gun-wielding psychopaths? Do they even know the origin of the word they claimed videogames to be?

 

[Frank Cadena]

@Sterling: I agree that you have a point. I just saying that crazy people don't make good bomb makers. They make good suicide bombers though. Give them a vest and then point and shoot.

Personally though, I think America's mental health system needs a review. Oh and assault weapons ban. Assault weapons belong at a war zone, not the streets of America. I'm for rifles and handguns instead. Way more accuracy, cuts down on bystander casualties, and more than enough against lone gunmen wielding assault rifles.

 

[chyyran]

Mr. LaPierre "speech" contained so much irony and idiocy it made me laugh at how much of a lunatic organization the NRA is. Only in 'murrica.

 

[Hanafuda]

@Sterling: I agree that you have a point. I just saying that crazy people don't make good bomb makers. They make good suicide bombers though. Give them a vest and then point and shoot.

Personally though, I think America's mental health system needs a review. Oh and assault weapons ban. Assault weapons belong at a war zone, not the streets of America. I'm for rifles and handguns instead. Way more accuracy, cuts down on bystander casualties, and more than enough against lone gunmen wielding assault rifles.

What's an assault weapon?

 

[MelodieOctavia]

What's an assault weapon?

AK-47, M16, etc...

 

[JoostinOnline]

I don't know, I've seen some pretty filthy pornography in my day...

 

[shakirmoledina]

Definition of porn - Creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire
Guns stimulate?

PS - i like how no one says this is not news anymore.

 

[FluffyLunamoth]

Don't like it when it happens to you eh? Well fuck all the liberals who hate guns and what to ban them while getting off on glorified gun violence in movies and video games. Fuck em

Yes, because games physically kill people. Games are lethal. Games can go off on tehir own and kill people acciddentally. Please, next time, use your fucking brain here.

 

[Sterling]

What's an assault weapon?

Fully automatic weaponry. AK-47s can be semi-auto as well as full-auto. Same goes for M16s and other weapons.

 

[ferofax]

The NRA is starting to sound a lot like an arms dealer, lol. They basically wanna put weapons in everybody's hands.

 

[Ritsuki]

I give up ! Maybe then I'm just the worst serial killer of the planet because I played Mortal Kombat and Medal of Honor when I was kid.

It's funny, cause America has so much more important problems to solve, yet they focalise on video games...

 

[the_randomizer]

Definition of porn - Creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire
Guns stimulate?

PS - i like how no one says this is not news anymore.

Technically, the word itself is derived of "prono" - came from a word meaning harlot, and "graphy" or "graph", a picture or recording. I know people have their weird fetishes, but guns? Riiiiight.

 

[Bladexdsl]

how dare they bash porn!

 

[BlueStar]

So, everything BUT guns caused the massacre, flash games, films, culture, TV... But let me just get this straight, because there's a hell of a lot of cognitive dissonance going on here.

- You're for 'small government' but you want to increase the size of government by 100,000 people

- You want to cut government spending, but you want to hire, train and pay a military force about double the number of the US troops in Afghanistan

- You don't trust the government, but you want a government employee with a gun within range of your child for seven hours every day

- You're scared of Obama's NWO conspiracy and of being put in a FEMA death camp, but you want an enormous armed government military force spread through every corner of the country.

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.

Is that what happens in countries with tougher gun laws? Schools being blown up? The Columbine killers tried that and it resulted in 0 deaths. If they didn't have guns, that's where it would have ended.

 

[Hanafuda]

Fully automatic weaponry. AK-47s can be semi-auto as well as full-auto. Same goes for M16s and other weapons.

Ok, but what is it exactly that you define as assault weapons? Only fully automatic weapons, or only semi-automatic weapons, or all of both?? Or is it only AK-47's and "M16s" that are fully automatic? Or is it only AK-47's and "M16's" that are semi-automatic (in which case they would actually be AR-15's)?

If it is your intention that the "assault weapon" ban prohibit only fully automatic weaponry, then the federal government beat you to it, in 1934. And then further restricted it in 1968 and 1986. It's still possible to own a full auto, but prohibitively expensive. They're the collector's items and toys of very wealthy men, and there is no crime problem to speak of with full auto weapons.

If it is your intention that the "assault weapon" ban prohibit only semi-automatic AK-47's and AR-15's, then you're singling out a couple of very popular sporting rifles that shoot only medium power cartridges and are not functionally different from other semi-automatics. For example, except for some cosmetic features, the following are functionally the exact same gun:

So, the remaining option is that you mean for the "assault weapon" ban to prohibit the ownership of all semi-automatics. Is that what you meant?