A Connecticut community is to hold an amnesty of violent video games in the wake of last month’s mass shooting in Newtown.
Organisers Southington SOS plan to offer gift certificates in exchange for donated games, which will be burned. The group, a coalition of local organisations, says its actions do not assert that video games were the cause of the killings in nearby Newtown, but argues that violent games and films desensitize children to “acts of violence”.
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By the way, I'm terribly sorry for the events that happened, but how exactly is this helping the families?
-Violent video game.
Pick one.
Why would you burn a gun?
A knife, fork, baseball bat, Rock, water, rope, and many other things can kill someone.
Blaming a gun for killing someone is ignorant.
Blaming and burning a book/movie/video game for a violent crime is even more ignorant.
Sad day for humanity. I thought humans were more evolved than this, but I was wrong. Ignorance is everywhere.
Then the guns really will be killing people.
Because guns are designed to maim and kill, its the primary reason for their existence.
No one can rampage through a school killing people indiscriminately with a brick or a fork.
Infact there was a knife rampage in china in december also. and 22 people were injured, INJURED being the key word.
There's no excuse for guns in a civilised society, this aint the wild west no more.
If anything they should at LEAST ban automatic weapons. There's literally no excuse for uzis and assault rifles for "self defence". It sound's kind of messed up, but if that guy only had access to handguns the amount of dead would of been much lower.
Please educate yourself. Automatic weapons ARE illegal, and the shooters did not use automatic rifles. The AR-15 is a SEMI-AUTO rifle. The only major difference between an AR-15 and your standard hunting rifle is that the AR-15 is black and has a tactical rail, which means it LOOKS scary, and LOOKS like an automatic rifle, but it is NOT. Had the CT shooter used his handguns he would have killed the same number of people just the same. In fact, hand guns account for exponentially more deaths per year in the US than these rifles that are being so demonized by an ignorant public that can't even tell the difference between a semi-auto rifle or fully-auto rifle, nor does the public even have a clue as to what current gun laws are.
They could have just planted trees on the school property on behalf of each person lost...far more positive and lasting message.
They should be mourning the loses of their loved ones and taking care of each other, instead we have trivial displays of symbolism. We even have newspapers publishing the addresses of gun owners within the area out of spite. Completely disgusting and shameful.
I think they DO understand. Its a lot more convenient to blame videogames. After all, there's no ammendment in the constitution to hide behind.
NRA said to arm good citizens with guns... how do you define a good citizen? how do you know that a "good" citizen will never snap one day and use that gun other then to defend innocent? Even a priest commit sins let alone a law abiding citizen. Then you will just have another person with a gun who can potentially kill.
Not saying you're wrong about the motive being unrelated but it does happen.
If parents are really that concerned, then don't let the kids play violent games. It's their "responsibility," so stop putting all the blame on video games. Why do people like blaming on "things?"
Someone shoots your dog, do you hate on the gun or on the guy that shot your dog?
And what's going to happen next? Barnie games from here on? I think that would make more people want to shoot themselves.
Why is it the ignorant always blame everything else but themselves.
There lies your problem folks, guns, not games...
"Gun culture" is rather removed from video games. There is some overlap, but you'd have an easier time saying people who play Madden are supporting gun culture, as a MASSIVE number of those who could be considered "gun nuts" are huge football fans.
Sounds stupid, doesn't it?
In either case, neither games nor guns are to blame for the situation. Burning games will be as effective in preventing future events as arbitrarily banning guns. People can talk about how violent video games cause an increase in aggression, but they ALWAYS neglect to mention that said increase is TEMPORARY, and that aggression doesn't translate directly into physical action.
Simply put, there's no positive correlation between violent video games and violent acts. Watching porn- even kinky bondage stuff- doesn't increase the chances that you'll rape somebody, does it?
As much as many people, publications, and establishments would like to say and make you believe otherwise, there's just no proof of it.