And it starts

Headshot

Just looking on sky news now and the vice pres of the NRA is blaming games

good auld NRA, blaming anyone else except the real ones to blame themselves

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

makes about as much sense as blaming the however many million gun owners that don't commit crimes with their firearms I guess

degrassinoel

So a gun club is blaming computer games for gun violence?

Headshot

Bulletstorm,” “Grand Theft Auto,” “Mortal Kombat,” and “Splatterhouse were mentioned

The mortal Kombat one is quite funny thou

Zombrex

Headshot wrote: »

Just looking on sky news now and the vice pres of the NRA is blaming games

good auld NRA, blaming anyone else except the real ones to blame themselves

Don't blame guns. Guns don't kill people. People kill people. People who play games. Blame games!

By that logic

Don't blame guns. Guns don't kill people. People kill people. People who like guns. Blame guns!

CastorTroy

As I always say when these points are made about video games being to blame: i'd love to see the games guys like Hitler, Bin Laden and Hussein played.

Command & Conquer?

Zombrex

degrassinoel wrote: »

So a gun club is blaming computer games for gun violence?

Gun nut - I'm going to get my gun and murder you!

Gamer - Sign up for Xbox LIVE, get a gamer account, buy Halo, log on (around Saturday lunch time), search for me and then start a custom game, and I'll murder you!

Headshot

http://kotaku.com/5970484/the-nras-absolutely-unhinged-response-to-newtown-blames-a-10+year-old-flash-game

Zombrex

CastorTroy wrote: »

As I always say when these points are made about video games being to blame: i'd love to see the games guys like Hitler, Bin Laden and Hussein played.

Command & Conquer?

Well Hitler liked to pee on his cousins face, so I imagine more along the lines of No More Heros :P

Dravokivich

CastorTroy wrote: »

As I always say when these points are made about video games being to blame: i'd love to see the games guys like Hitler, Bin Laden and Hussein played.

Command & Conquer?

Stalin was in that...

jumbobreakfast

What about the Bath school disaster, no video games back then:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster

CastorTroy

Remember when Jack the Ripper played Trauma Center on his Wii?

Icyseanfitz

lets show a bit of respect to the victims and families....or we could just use this to push our own agenda :mad: fcuking muppets

jd007

When GTA V comes out the first thing I'm gonna do is get a prostitute and kill her for no reason.

After that I'll probably buy a copy of the game and play it for a while.

Icepick

Carlin has this guy covered.

richymcdermott

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/365190/Killer-Adam-Lanza-obsessed-with-violent-video-games/

facepalm/ to the so called journalist who blames the Connecticut shooting to dynasty warriors

RobertFoster

Zombrex wrote: »

Don't blame guns. Guns don't kill people. People kill people. People who play games. Blame games!

By that logic

Don't blame guns. Guns don't kill people. People kill people. People who like guns. Blame guns!

Guns don't kill people, death kills people. Ask a doctor, it's a medical fact.

degrassinoel

Icyseanfitz wrote: »

lets show a bit of respect to the victims and families....or we could just use this to push our own agenda :mad: fcuking muppets

What agenda is this, and who's it being pushed on?

Personally i think it goes without saying that your average gamer does have sympathy towards real life shooting incidents victims and families, like what's happened recently. But this blame game that a gunclub is playing here is to me at least, completely upside down.

Ye can blame whoever ye want, but it was the arsehole who pulled the trigger that's really to blame here not what tv programmes he watched or what games he played. He might have played Chess too, does that mean that the rest of the world should stop playing chess? fcuk no.

aN.Droid

degrassinoel wrote: »

What agenda is this, and who's it being pushed on?

Personally i think it goes without saying that your average gamer does have sympathy towards real life shooting incidents victims and families, like what's happened recently. But this blame game that a gunclub is playing here is to me at least, completely upside down.

Ye can blame whoever ye want, but it was the arsehole who pulled the trigger that's really to blame here not what tv programmes he watched or what games he played. He might have played Chess too, does that mean that the rest of the world should stop playing chess? fcuk no.

I think he was talking about the anti gun lobbyists.

I read it the same way as you did though until I thought about it more.

super_furry

So the best solution they can come up with to gun murders in schools in gun battles in schools?

Hey whatever helps sell more guns.

degrassinoel

Fair enough, yeah does look that way

fs, thought we were gonna have a discussion there for a moment!

The Gnome

Not a huge fan of him but TotalBiscuit pretty much sums up the whole fiasco pretty well in this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uwAo8lcAC4

Rebel Rebel

Listing to Davenport after dark podcast earlier today, and as a result of the massacres in America, Gun sales have soared especially the sales of the type of one the gunman used to kill all the children.

http://media.newstalk.ie/podcast/70131/?uniqueID=404829




Clearly games are the problem and not gun control

ShadowHearth

ShadowHearth

richymcdermott wrote: »

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/365190/Killer-Adam-Lanza-obsessed-with-violent-video-games/

facepalm/ to the so called journalist who blames the Connecticut shooting to dynasty warriors

from the article:

Cowardly Adam Lanza, 20, was driven to carry out the bloody killings after his parents split up and his friends alienated him, reports emerging from America revealed.

Those ****ing video games! :mad::pac:

CastorTroy

Maybe it was his XBox friends and, um, Big Daddy and Mother Brain?

Potential-Monke

That video by TotalBiscuits is spot on. He gets everything right. No more needs to be said, but you won't see any news station or print quoting him or anyone like him. I recommend everyone watch it, and use the information he provides to inform anyone who thinks gaming is to blame on the real reasons why things like this happen.

Dave_The_Sheep

The Penn-Teller-BS series outing on this is actually very good. The last three minutes are quite jarringly off-note with the rest of the episode, very well done.

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Zomg Okay

It's like a Facebook status I saw the other day, that went something like: "Blaming video games for the recent shootings is like me saying, 'Yeah, I've been sitting on my arse for the past year or so playing Fifa so I reckon I'm ready to sign up for Chelsea at the weekend'".

Headshot

Zomg Okay wrote: »

It's like a Facebook status I saw the other day, that went something like: "Blaming video games for the recent shootings is like me saying, 'Yeah, I've been sitting on my arse for the past year or so playing Fifa so I reckon I'm ready to sign up for Chelsea at the weekend'".

He couldn't do worse than Torres

Sarky

I started playing Spec Ops: The Line earlier today. I was thinking "hey, this is a slick shooter, nothing new but lots of fun" most of the way until I got to that part where

you use the white phosphorous mortar and have to walk through the carnage, with dead and dying soldiers everywhere, and then you find out you unwittingly murdered a whole bunch of civilians

, and I just... stopped playing. That scene robbed me of the enthusiasm I had been having during the action. It made me want to stop playing, but in a good way. A violent game turned me off violence. I had the same feeling playing Hotline Miami, fantastic fun during the action, but when everything calms down and you actually see what you've done...

The NRA and media are so far from the truth it's staggering. They can go f*ck themselves.