NRA points to video games as part of gun violence issue
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[QUOTE=Str4fe;38924196][img]http://www.project.org/images/graphs/Firearms-Crime.jpg[/img]
1993 is also when DOOM was released.
[editline]21st December 2012[/editline]
Followed by other first person shooters[/QUOTE]
Hey you know what's funny? It peaked when DOOM was released and then it started declining. Video games lower crime rates.
[QUOTE=gbtygfvyg;38935886]Hey you know what's funny? It peaked when DOOM was released and then it started declining. Video games lower crime rates.[/QUOTE]
I can see that.
Im not trying to say that it peaked because of video games, im not saying that it declined because of video games, im just pointing out that i cannot see a negative effect caused by video games.
[h=1][I]A stone cannot fly.
Mother cannot fly.
Ergo, Mother is a stone[/I][/h]
[QUOTE=Str4fe;38924196][img]http://www.project.org/images/graphs/Firearms-Crime.jpg[/img]
1993 is also when DOOM was released.
[editline]21st December 2012[/editline]
Followed by other first person shooters[/QUOTE]
correlation =/= causation etc etc
How about remove guns from the equation altogether?
Oh yeah. The amendment or some shit.
[QUOTE=Memobot;38936757]How about remove guns from the equation altogether?
Oh yeah. The amendment or some shit.[/QUOTE]
Stop trying to start shit, please.
Oh yeah, 400,000 years of evolution and mankind still can't tell the fucking difference between causation and correlation.
[QUOTE=DiscoMelon;38937678]Oh yeah, 400,000 years of evolution and mankind still can't tell the fucking difference between causation and correlation.[/QUOTE]
And apparently we also can't tell how evolution works.
[QUOTE=Ray-The-Sun;38937699]And apparently we also can't tell how evolution works.[/QUOTE]
Eh, you're right, let me rephrase. 160,000 (give or take) years of developing cultures and human knowledge and many people still don't understand the difference between the two.
So computer games are available all around the world right. However of the western world america has by far the most gun crimes. The only difference i can see is the gun laws and the availability of guns.
[QUOTE=NoDachi;38926946]No.
The FBI profile on a school shooter often cites firearm obsession and grew up in a home where firearms are readily available, often in a unsafe or careless manner.
[url]http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/school-shooter[/url][/QUOTE]
Its often the only common factor, but you can only make a correlation, not causation.
LEGALIZE VIDEO GAEMS
How many NRA members does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
More guns.
Seriously? I've talked to so many people about how the media blames video games. Parents, friends, family. It [b]pisses[/b] me off so much. Video games don't do anything, hell, they could probably help the problem. The problem is what others have said, mentally unstable people getting to guns. It's as simple as that, either people don't know how the fuck to lock up guns or we need stricter gun laws.
[QUOTE=Str4fe;38924196][img]http://www.project.org/images/graphs/Firearms-Crime.jpg[/img]
1993 is also when DOOM was released.
[editline]21st December 2012[/editline]
Followed by other first person shooters[/QUOTE]
Except that spike started in 1989, and started falling in 1993. Funny enough that spike starts when the Fleeing Felon Law was changed to no longer allow deadly force
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