House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Sunday pushed back against the argument that violent video games are responsible for mass shootings in the United States, pointing to other countries where similar games are played but rates of shooting deaths are low.
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EDIT: She's not even saying that video games AREN'T the problem, just that they MIGHT not be. And that the solution to realizing that there's no concrete connection between violence and games is throwing money at it.
I'm tired of one side blaming games and the other side blaming guns when the real issue is that we ostracize too much and thus don't ever seem to catch major signs. If we treated each other responsibly, we wouldn't need to ban/greatly restrict guns to feel safe or look for scapegoats for a couple of people that snap.
Can someone explain, please? :D
@MasterChief. IDK If your being real or not, but since there is a.m and p.m. whatever time the clock died on.... time keeps moving. everyday. Should I keep explaining common sense?
if you're serious than a clock that's stuck at say 8 will be right twice a day. at 8 pm and 8 am. if you're trolling shame on you for wasting my time.
"Even a broken clock is right once a day." is a figure of speech and/or saying. In the political realm nancy pelosi is a joke of a politician.
The stupidity that she usually seems to display frequently on a daily basis took a vacation the day she said that video games are not the cause of violence.
The figure of speech was appropriate in which pelosi mostly messes up in her political career in which (*PopRocks359*) used an appropriate analogy in saying that she generally messes up like a broken clock yet she gets things right once in a while hence the term "Even a broken clock is right once a day.".
Broken DIGITAL clock :)
""As part of your plan, you call for more scientific research on the connection between popular culture and violence. We don't need another study, respectfully," said Wallace. "I mean, we know that these video games, where people have their heads splattered, these movies, these TV shows -- why don't you go to your friends in Hollywood and challenge them? Shame them, and say, 'Knock it off?'"
Pelosi responded that Democrats wanted concrete scientific evidence in order to write the best legislation possible, and countered that Wallace's assumption about violence in the media could be incorrect. "
They have to study the issue of gun violence in this country and that should involve the media. I'm not concerned that this will limit what games can do, I actually think the contrary.
All they will find is what we all already know; when crazy people see crazy shit they go crazy, the rest of us just keep rolling along. If anything people with mental disabilities or problems will be limited in what they can buy.
While I don't own a gun, I don't think pissing on the constitution is the solution (watering down the right to bare arms)
Why does the government need to do what the private sector has already done a million times over (prove only that games increase "aggression" in tests of non-violence and have no real effect on every day "violent acts")?
The right on the other hand just think that grown men shouldn't be sitting around playing with what they regard as children's toys.
The Left see male aggression as horrifying and dangerous, every man is a potential rapist and murderer when his blood is up...but..
Sebastian Vettel is aggressive, it takes real masculine aggression to do what he does.
The men in Sea Shepherd are aggressive, so are the lifeguards at the beach when they're swimming out to rescue someone, so are my co workers on the construction sites when we're pushing to get things done or when we're in a potentially dangerous situation.
Yeah, video games make us more aggressive but that kind of aggression is good for men, it's how we push things forward, how we overcome problems and sometimes impossible odds.
Winning a game of team deathmatch may be small beer in the scheme of things but the aggression which comes from gaming has to be matched with self control to succeed, just like it does on the construction site or the football field.
"When looking at the other largest video game markets around the world, there appears to be no statistical correlation between video game consumption and gun-related killings. Max Fisher at the Washington Post recently examined some of this data and found that "countries where video games are popular also tend to be some of the world’s safest"
"The other large video game markets" I believe have strict gun laws unlike the USA. Am I right?
There was a guy the other day telling me that the UK was dangerous because of a lack of firearms, that our people live in constant fear. That's nonsense, but then again we've never really had guns. Trying to control them in America - especially within some more militant areas - is a recipe for civil war. If you try to take guns from the people that shouldn't have them - which is anybody who wants one because they can get one - some of those people who've never used a weapon outside of a first test the day they bought it might suddenly start trying to "defend their rights."
It's much easier to find a scape goat, especially one they have no real control over and especially when some of the people in charge would rather ban a medium they have no interest in than ban their weaponry.
It's not guns, movies, video games or comic books. It's actually just Americans. We seem to be incapable of growing up.
We have all of these policies and laws that conflict with each others' broad definitions and that's where the trouble starts. It is through loose definition and cracks in the system that allow the wrong people to carry weapons and in some instances allow criminals to get by easier (whether they deal in guns or get sentenced for it). Trying to sift through the gun laws per city is just one way of begging for a headache.
I think that politicians should consider how other countries are faring with the relationship of pop culture and gun laws, thus seeing what it is that is different over here. Video games, film, music, and television are a universal thing after all. I don't know how gun laws are in Canada, the United Kingdom, or France, but I'm sure that video games and film don't face such scrutiny like it does here. Honestly, it makes me sick to my stomach at how delusional so many in the population over here in the States can blame a piece of fictional work for very real violence when the perpetrator is the one who hurt or killed others in the first place.
Our politicians cannot go on and make it seem like gun violence is caused by video games because at the end of the day it's people who are hurting people. Pieces of pop culture do not cause these violent acts. I just wrote a blog about that a few days ago. I do know that assault weapons are going to be facing a strict overhaul, though. We shall see where that goes in the future.
That's just the general take on them and they do get into a lot of detail, like war vets fit in, plus it goes into background checks with include mental health checks, etc
These old timers don't seem to understand that shooter games are extremely unrealistic and can in no way act as a simulator.
There other argument is shooter games get the killer in the mood. Ok, car racing games can get me in the mood to race, but in order to actually go race 80 mph around a sharp turn takes some sort of mental instability don't u think?
Get to the root of the real issue or these unfortunate mass shootings will continue. Dodging is denial, and denial in this case is death.
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Also, Nissan had a competition for GT players to race their cars. Turns out they were too fast for an entry level real world competition.
Well said man I agree with you, don't know why there is a troll around here that is giving us disagrees for the heck of it lol!!!
It comes down to parenting first or lack thereof, and only gets worse as the child ages and is introduced to more forms of violence.
Then there's also the possibility of mental illness among other things.
So saying "violent games" is the cause everytime someone takes out a fun and shoots a group of ppl out of nowhere is just ignoring the real cause that no one wants to admit to: bad parenting.
Seriously, there are more forms of violent entertainment than just games.
What about violent songs? Violent movies? Even the news which shows real life events of actual violence? Huh? Why not attack them? Why are games always used as a scapegoat and other forms of media are not?
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Now to debunk:
One of the earliest school shootings by Charles Whitman, happen in 1966 in Austin Texas. He killed 16 people total with a sniper. The drugs he was on were amphetamine and barbiturates. The first video game was Space Wars, which came out in 1961. Now I highly doubt that an old dated space shooter cause this to happen, and arcades were not around that time either. Charles Whitman was trained in the military as a marine, so that explains his skills in using a sniper. Now wait for it...Wait for it... The first violent video game was Death Race 2000(Those straight to DVD movies were based on this game)!!! It came out in 1976!!!! Many of the earliest school shootings around the world happen before this game was known!!!! I just debunked the mainstream media. Video games and guns don't kill people, people on drugs with thoughts of violence and suicide kill people.
This could be the beginning of the end of the world, everyone! This is an amazing turn of events! :D