SarcasmoJones
Shared on Wed, 01/30/2013 - 20:48The shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary was a terrible American tragedy which has divided the country over the topic of gun control and our Second Amendment rights. I don't usually get political on 2O2P, but some folks out there are pointing their fingers at video games and I just can't let that slide. NRA Spokesman, Wayne LaPierre, told us a few weeks ago that the answer is "more guns" and that the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. The President has signed 23 executive orders related to gun violence and wants to ban assault weapons, require more comprehensive background checks for firearm sales, and to limit magazine capacities.
Now that we are blaming video games for mass murder, I have a few suggestions that could quite possibly bring our country back from the brink of destruction. First, and most obvious, we need more violent video games. We need to get these games into our schools and make sure that every teacher in America is properly trained in the use of the latest combat shooters. Next we have to realize that the only thing that can stop a bad gamer is a good gamer. We need to lift the age-restrictions on violent games so our children don't feel oppressed and murdery, perhaps do away with ID restrictions on mature games, but only at game conventions or trade shows. We could then restrict game carrying cd cases to a six game capacity, forcing the bad gamer to carry more cases.
They may take our lives, but they will never take our games! It's one of our Constitutional Amendments, probably in the middle or something. The gamers of America will rise up and pelt our oppressors with Cheetos, Red Bull and Mountain Dew. We will not go quietly into the night and we will not be tricked by your cake of misinformation. Gamers have infiltrated the CIA Building in Langley, defeated wave after wave of Nazi zombies, become Big Daddies, survived The Flood, chainsawed hookers in the streets of Vice City, and pulled Johnny Cage's fucking head right off of his body...we are more than a match for a handful of dimwitted politicians. For all the folks trying to blame games for the deaths of children...would you kindly go fuck yourselves.
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Submitted by Oldschool 2o4f on Thu, 01/31/2013 - 09:44
Would you put Hollywood in the same categorie as video games?
And realize, I'm not instigating anything, I agree with you on the games, but I can't make as easy a decision on Hollywood. And yet I do realize it should be as easy...
Submitted by SarcasmoJones on Fri, 02/01/2013 - 00:13
No, I would not necessarily classify movies and games differently. The only difference I see between movies and video games is the depth of interactivity. However, movies have also been blamed for motivating folks to murder, along with books, music, political propaganda, religion, etc. I don't believe that most of these things deserve any measure of culpability, the problem is that some folks are defective, not the culture. Folks were killing folks long before The Deer Hunter, Wes Craven, Stephen King, Judas Priest, or Call of Duty. I really can't provide a better explanation of my opinion without revealing my political views, which have no place in this forum.
Submitted by Oldschool 2o4f on Tue, 02/12/2013 - 06:53
I agree that those that would be influenced would find "something" to influence them, and yes, much of that would fall into the defective categorie.
What I love though, and this is me nit picking, is the movie director that says his moving would never have a negative influence on society, is the same one that loves to hear what a positive influence his movie has on society.
Now, I don't care where your political thoughts fall, and I think we have few in common, unless common sense counts, and then we might have a bit more in common, but what the hell is this mess?