Newtown 7th Grader Starts Movement To Rid America Of Violent Video Games - Polidicks

[QUOTE=MaxOfS2D;38931239]It's not violent video games we need to get rid of, it's the over glorification of murder and war and stuff like that [editline]22nd December 2012[/editline] (and video games are, for the most part, not the biggest offenders.)[/QUOTE] would you care to share you views on what the biggest offenders are? just wondering

So did videogames make this guy shoot up the school or something? What's the connection here?

There isn't really one. The kid just made the link between the two by uninformed assumption alone.

[QUOTE=Badballer;38933445]So did videogames make this guy shoot up the school or something? What's the connection here?[/QUOTE] The connection is probably made by parents with the usual "video games have violence, so they inspire violence!" and then passed on onto him, and MAYBE by the NRA aswell, trying to divert away the attention from guns to avoid bad image on weaponry and ending up with bad sales. So, no connection other than an organization trying to blame something else to not hurt it's sales and uninformed people with understandable "soccer mom" ideas.

Ugh, I wish they would focus on the main problems like mental health or bullying rather than blame it on video games.

[QUOTE=Pierrewithahat;38930993]So is it like knee jerk reaction week in America or has the media just latched onto stupidity as usual?[/QUOTE] Yes.

Has it not already been sort of made a strong argument that it isn't games that are the problem, but rather the actual media that exaggerates the issue? [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uwAo8lcAC4[/media] (Links to sources of information presented in the video are on the actual YouTube page)

This dumbass isn't even allowed to buy these games what the hell is he defending.

for fucks sake when will they learn that it's not video games that makes you into a crazed shooter but because the shooter was already fucked up in the head yet his mother did nothing [QUOTE=power-mad;38931407]Because these things never happened before videogames, and if you succeed by some miracle, will certainly never happen again. Penn Jillette in this has pretty much my views on it. Blaming media is a pointless redirection of blame. People bring it up every time something like this happens and it's always wrong. Around 5:30 is when they bring up media, though it's also good to hear Penn slam that girl for trying to blame various mental disorders earlier in the video.[/QUOTE] I dislike how they kept interrupting Penn when he was talking.

People need to stop focusing on Video Games as the issue here and address the mental state of its population.

Yeah as well as the culture of "violence = a solution"

[QUOTE=Colliseemoe;38932149]Damn, any more of that and Penn probably would have become a mass murderer himself. Between the lack of knowledge on the subjects, cheap debate tactics ("so you're saying that now teachers should carry guns?" [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum[/url]), and obvious crowd whoring among those women, that was almost a challenge to watch all the way through.[/QUOTE] he was clearly incredibly upset with that ignorant bullshit they spewed from their mouths like fucking diareha. seriously they think that people with autism spectrum have an empty hole in their head that they can fill with anything else because it isn't full of social norms. how much more ignorant can you fucking get? i'm serious i thought penn was going to freak out. i'm willing to bet that's the reason why they cut him out so quickly at the end when he started restating the fact that he knows some beautiful people who happen to have autism spectrum.

Clearly this kid hasn't a Nick Cage film, or he'd be trying to ban terrible films instead.

also i don't see what's so bad about libertarianism either. i really do have a good feeling i'd get along with the dude

If there's any game that makes me want to kill people, it's Super Meat Boy I get pretty pissed off tbh

I've played violent video games since I was tiny. I'm not killing anybody. You've got to actually be insane to want to kill anybody and video games aren't going to make shit all of difference. Honestly, one of these days I'm gonna go out and 360 noscope one of these people like Call of Duty taught me how to do. [editline]22nd December 2012[/editline] Also, Romans went out and killed people because of all those violent video games they played.

[QUOTE=Katatonic717;38930922]I mean I feel for the kid but... No, just no.[/QUOTE] Deus ex: Human Revolution is practically the opposite, and i think dishonored is too.

Video games are too easy to blame. There are millions upon millions of copies of Grand Theft Auto (or any other violent video game) sold across the globe, and there's only a fraction of that number in school shootings. From what I gather, the kid sat home all day and played video games. What did Adam Lanza do after high school? Does he have a job? Did he go to college? From what I read, I don't think he had a job or went to college. Couldn't lack of education be a more plausible excuse to blame for this incident?

Violent videogames: Do absolutely fucking nothing to make you kill people Mental problems: Do absolutely fucking everything to make you kill people

okay stop blaming mental problems. just fuckin stop bringing it up as a point. [editline]22nd December 2012[/editline] mainly because everyone who throws around that blame is completely ignorant to what mental health really means. look at that video with penn and that gaggle of cunts. they're so out of whack in their understanding of mental disability if you knew just even the basics of mental health you'd be able to see how fucking offensive it is to do such a thing (especially with that older cunt said about violence replacing social skills.. WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!). especially when you don't understand what's going on with it, at fucking all. plus you offend people who've actually had to deal with mental problems as well.

Regulate violent video games instead of guns. Flawless logic.

[QUOTE=redhaven;38936963]Regulate violent video games instead of guns. Flawless logic.[/QUOTE] Real guns = good Fake guns = bad ok that seems solid to me, guys

How about you prove first that Adam Lanza, the Aurora shooter, or anyone else even played video games

Of course it's the violent video games, otherwise these kids wouldn't be dumping their games. You can't blame chemistry when the chemistry is driving this event.

seriously using newtown as a launchpad for a political agenda is just disgusting

Man, if I had gone home for winter break I would head over and just collect the games I want.

Why isn't movies or music or even literature scapegoated now? There are multiple possible factors, ability of assault weapons/guns, probable mental problems, but most times, it wasn't games. Hell, its like blaming religion on every single war. There were wars that didn't involve it, or when religion was mostly worshiping different gods and goddess who they knew could be assholes(Norse, Greek, Romans). Hell, bullying could have helped cause the shooting. I do think gun control should be a little more strict, like background checks, mental health status, previous crimes, drug usage. But don't ban guns.

Worse then the kid who wants to ban "cussing".

Wow this kid is really smart. He "urges" his peers to give up their games, but really he wants their parents to take it away and give it to him. Free games!

[QUOTE=Apache249;38930914]I bet it was her idea and just for the attention.[/QUOTE] I wonder if that container of games dropped off will go home in the back of her SUV.