Cheat Code Central's Josh Engen writes: "Just before Christmas, Wayne LaPierre, vice president of the NRA, called a press conference to hypocritically deflect any backlash from the Sandy Hook Elementary school shootings onto the video game industry. It was all very entertaining, until you realized that they're being entirely serious. Unfortunately, LaPierre's point of view is shared by enough people to justify an old-fashioned book burning. Except, instead of books, they'll be burning video games."
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His mother left high powered weapons unlocked and unattended in a home with a child known for having serious mental illness. More than anyone this kid's mother is responsible for this terrible crime.
And of course the NRA needs a scapegoat because it's painfully f***** obvious that an irresponsible gun owner is COMPLETELY to blame for this horrible tragedy.
I can't recall any video games being found at the seen of the crime. They found a crazy young man with his mom's 3 automatic weapons. The 'Bush Master' had 30 round clips and some of those kids had their bodies ripped apart by up to seven bullets. So the answers is obviously: destroy video games and give everyone for of these harmless guns. If the kids had their own 'Bush Masters', they would have been able to take on this guy, who kill they because the thought he was playing Call Of Duty. If that sounds completely stupid to you, it is because... it is! But this is what the NRA is trying to argue.
Stop with the "NRA thinks the kids should have had guns" crap. The idea of teachers having the option to carry does not make them "Rambo" and having armed guards on campus (an already frequent practice with police in HS and Universities) doesn't make it a "police state" or mean that we will have "armed guards on every street"
I don't like the NRA or their statements about games any more than you, but STOP WITH THESE STUPID TROPES!! We will never get anywhere in this debate with people mocking everything.
Having military on campus was a ridiculous suggestion, but having an officer stationed where we send ALL of our children for 7 hours a day with TAX dollars isn't a bad idea. Having "all" teachers carry (I'm not even sure this was an NRA suggestion and not another trope exaggeration) is stupid because it entails training and teachers being forced to carry, but letting teachers have the option to protect themselves where otherwise neat little gun-free zones exist (AKA Target ranges for deranged killers, gun wielding or not) isn't any more crazy than letting people have the option to own a weapon for protection anywhere else.
You could make gun ownership more difficult, but that wouldn't have stopped Sandy Hook - he stole the weapon. You could take away all guns...if you're delusional and ignore the fact that taking all those millions of guns would be near impossible and leave only the criminals holding out. You can register weapons and bullets will still be untraceable. You make bullets really expensive and people will cast their own. You can ban "assault" rifles and handguns will still be semi-automatic. You can ban semi-automatic weapons and people will use devices that make them essentially semi-automatic. You can make gun clips smaller and people who go on rampages will still wear clips of ammo.
We NEED a comprehensive, forward approach to mental health. I remember back in school they tested us to try to improve our scores and gain more funding, they tested us for athleticism and rewarded students academically for it, they tested for basic mental health and pushed for social interacti.....no wait, they didn't do those last two things at all. Makes schools less about funding so that they can fix real problems.
lol
Some Stupid parent let her Mentally Challenged kid have easy access to her 30 round clip semi automatic AR-15 bushmaster!
......BUT you got these lunatic NRA folks out there burning video Games. I'm surprised those Yahoos weren't shooting in the air, drinking moonshine, and dancing a jig while barefooted!
The NRA needs to say "The parent was wrong about proper gun safety of her weapons, nothing more nothing less!
Also Mental Illness in this country needs to be properly address and kids shouldn't make fun of those with mental illnesses cause they will SNAP!
I don't remember Adolf Hitler playing video Games and how many people did kill?
Stop Scapegoating Video Games!
http://youtu.be/5uwAo8lcAC4...
I knew they were money grubbing scum but this is an all time low..