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Edited by Black Eagle X99:
1/15/2013 9:04:44 PM
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Scapegoating Video Games - The Government needs to Back Off
It looks like the video game blame is only about to intensify.
[quote]The US National Rifle Association has launched a target range game for the iPhone and iPad, a month after the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy.
The game, which simulates a shooting practice, has been approved for children as young as four.
In open letter to Mr Biden, the Entertainment Consumers Association's vice-president Jennifer Mercurio wrote: "With the recent tragedy on everyone's minds, some people are looking for a cause and culprit other than the shooter.
International Game Developers Association chairman Daniel Greenberg also said the government should not be "scapegoating" the video game industry for society's ills.
"The US government did irreparable damage to the comic book industry in the 1950s by using faulty research to falsely blame juvenile delinquency and illiteracy on comic books. The comic book industry never recovered in sales to this day," he added.[/quote]
[url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21025626]Link to the article.[/url]
Video of Joe Biden meeting with EA, Activision, Take-Two, Gamestop and others:
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLMIb-oNoRM[/url]
So Flood has it gone too far yet? Should we be worried at this point? They seem hell bent on blaming this on someone, and it seems that if the NRA can't be that someone it's going to be the video game industry. Just take a look at those Facebook comments from the day of the shooting. The only basis they had was that the wrongly accused brother like Mass Effect. THE WRONG MAN. The actual perpetrator did not in fact play video games at all. So where is the basis for the argument? No where.
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People are stupid.
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When I'm playing Halo and CoD I am secretly training to be IRL mass murdering super soldier.
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I bet you crime rate will increase if you dumb down our video games. For some, Gaming is their only escape from society and the only way to keep themselves from doing stuff they'd regret later..
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1 ReplyEdited by App L Sawz: 1/16/2013 3:50:41 AMWhat are the comments in the picture you've linked referring to? What Facebook page?
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I don't like Scapegoat either.
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1 Replyhaters gonna hate but they will never take our games away. They can be ignorant all they want while I keep enjoying my fps games along with all my other games like Madden and racing games that have [i]nothing[/i] to do with guns. Maybe because NFL allows madden games to be made they will have to ban real life NFL because oh no the NFL supports a video game! It would not surprise me if there were a few nutheads out there that actually believed that kinda crap that every video game no matter the source material in it is evil lol
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1 ReplyIt's the people, not the games. They're psychologically susceptible. FGS.
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3 RepliesEdited by An Eagle Flying A Blimp: 1/16/2013 12:45:55 AMI say we blame the News. They are just as responsible, as it is them who spreads the news of this murderer, who would have gone down in history as a no name fool rather that a world renown criminal. Its what a lot of criminals aim for, that world renown status. Whats more, its them who causes this hysteria that attacks communities, industries, ect in order to get people to forget this.
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3 RepliesPeople are scapegoating everything. No one is willing to man up and say that we need better mental health care. All of these mass murderers have mental issues. All of these mass murderers have famalies and friends. Why did no one say anything? Why did no one try to help them? Now we get to the point of, "Oh its the fault of guns," "Oh it's the fault of violent video games and movies." Both excuses are bullshit. The only thing that pulled the trigger was the person behind it. Guns didn't do it them selves, games didn't do it, movies didn't do it, it was the psycho that did it. When the NRA came out the Friday after the murder with their press conference and I read the part about games, I was a little annoyed, but then I got to thinking. It was not so much an attack on games as form of calling out the Media in general. We glorify violence, we revel in it with Movies, TV shows, and games. Yet the same people who turn out violent media are the first people to blame an inanimate object for a tragedy. They don't see any fault that they may have. Do I personally believe violent media is at fault? No, not at all. There is no one really to blame but the murderer. Though we do need to have a serious discussion on the effects of news media in the reporting of a mass murder. The Murderer is almost idolized. They publish his name, his "kill count," his motives, everything. Then they immediately attack firearms and continue to idolize the murderer. That is why these killings happen, because we report it with such fervor that it almost cries out for a copy cat.
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5 RepliesI find it ridiculous that they are blaming Mass Effect 3. A single kid dying gives Shepard nightmares for the rest of the game. But it seems that having a character feeling bad about the kid's death promotes violence against children.
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1 ReplyI find it funny that all of these people have probably never even touched a game in their lives.
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If video games made people violent, there would be millions and millions of murderers and psychopaths more than normal. As long as people are ignorant to that fact and to evidence for it, they will blame video games for the bad things that happen.
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9 RepliesIt's easy to blame video games when the alternative is blaming shitty parenting or the complete and total neglect of the mentally ill in our country. God forbid a politician have to piss off a voter.
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Lol it was all old ladies.
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2 RepliesYou guys bring it upon yourselves with your stupidity. Everyone vomiting up "let's ban guns" is pushing this movement. With the agenda to ban guns, you also cause the push to ban anything remotely violent related. People have no idea what the hell they are doing when they ask or agree with government intrusion.
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They blame like this so they can sway the public's mind away from the hard decisions. Shooting games can contribute to shootings, but are never the soul cause. Why not direct your attention to the mentally troubled and give them actual help instead of prescribing them medicines that just turn the patient into a zombie, which is something that would actually help. It's like standing up a man with a broken leg instead of fixing it; He may look good on the outside, but he's still screwed up on the inside.
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3 RepliesEdited by CaptKrunch: 1/15/2013 10:25:37 PMAs long as they don't take away my right to play video games or place restrictions on what games can and can't have, I'm fine. They can blame video games all they want, it won't matter to me. Edit: After reading those facebook comments... I don't know what to say. Though seeing as most of them are women is amusing.
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6 RepliesGames are too big a part of the mainstay economy these days for any serious action to be taken. Also, I trust Biden/Obama to make intelligent decisions about it and not jump the gun on violent media like the Christian Right.
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7 RepliesVideogames have nowhere near that bad a rep here in rainy ol' England. :-)
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8 RepliesPeople see that guns were used to cause the tragedy at Sandy Hook. They don't want their guns taken away. They see Mass Effect, a video game. It has guns. They immediately go straight to that as a cause for the killings. That's how I see it. If this were the case, I would have killed about 100 million people by now seeing as how many violent video games surround me. I don't have the slightest inkling to kill a person and I have not killed a person in real life yet.
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13 RepliesWho cares what the NRA says. The Most they will be able to do is increase the age limit on purchasing mature titles from 17 to 18.
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3 RepliesTrue story: all the comments in that image were posted to the Mass Effect fanpage on facebook.
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3 RepliesEdited by Flawless Cowboy: 1/15/2013 6:13:41 PMStupid ass bitches. Haha, can I use it in the context without being banned?
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1 ReplyI think its hilarious that Hollywood wants more gun control but nearly all the actors have armed security guards and many are in movies that are completely violent.
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/facepalm
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Just idiots trying to place the blame on something else. Maybe they should be revising their stupid gun laws instead.
