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Guns don't kill people, video games do...

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    #92
    Sonics2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,248 ✭✭✭Sonics2k


    Canis Lupus wrote: »
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43455550 Poor old USA...

    Hey, let's blame video games, and not the fact the kid was able to get his hands on a loaded handgun.


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    #93
    K.O.Kiki
    Registered Users Posts: 18,707 ✭✭✭✭K.O.Kiki


    Sonics2k wrote: »
    Hey, let's blame video games, and not the fact the kid was able to get his hands on a loaded handgun.

    If the little girl had had a gun, she wouldn't have been shot!

    ...wait.


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    #94
    Maxpfizer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 496 ✭✭Maxpfizer


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Nothing to do with videogames, it's far more a cultural thing.

    Which takes us full circle. This outbreak of gun violence and spree killings in America isn't about videogame violence, a common denominator in all other countries with various levels of gun control. The only other factor that isn't common to all these countries is American culture which really what needs to be addressed.

    Even if it was about video game violence they'd need to be able to show how many incidents of gun violence were linked to gaming as opposed to drugs or alcohol or mental illness or political/religious extremism or some combination of the above.

    In truth video games are an easy scapegoat for people who are into religion and politics, who like a drink, who treat their kids mental disorders with a cocktail of drugs, who love their guns but who also don't play games.

    Some folks want to be seen to be "doing something" and it feels like gaming is an easy target because it's quite a young industry that hasn't toughened to media onslaught in the same way that alcohol or tobacco companies or Hollywood or the NRA have.

    Politicians just want to pass the buck while looking like they are acting in some meaningful way.

    If VR really starts to get good then we'll be back here in a few years talking about VR games where you can commit various acts and how that's training the next generation of killers or whatever.


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    #95
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    Another school shooting today, on the day Sea of Thieves is released now less... or... something?


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