https://youtu.be/lgRS1M97CHQ?t=6m
Well, the so-called violent ones anyway. Don't remember a game I ever played that told me to be a white supremacist and kill migrants.
Only violent one I could think of that was semi-banned but later revoked on the ban was Hatred.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/341940/Hatred/
It’s certainly worth studying. Along with the damage caused by social media. And the 24/7 news cycle. And violence in entertainment. And Psychotropic “meds” used by every shooter.
20,000 gun laws don’t seem to be helping.
Plus murder is already against the law so more laws isn’t the answer.
Yeah, truth is these shootings were horrific crimes. That's all. There will always be crime. There shouldn't necessarily be a policy response every time a headline has an emotional impact, particularly if it ignores the big picture (e.g. a national murder rate that's roughly half what it was in 1980). That's a recipe for bad law.
shareOMG, I have a great video game idea. It's just like East Berlin where we shoot people trying to cross the border wall, but you get cool multicolored skins if you shoot more than most.
Need to add more dark skinned ppl though, and more and varying degrees of gays and transgendered. So the more dark, gay or transgendered they are, the more points you can spend on cool skins for your guns and armor after you kill them.
Everyone likes cool game skins Amiright?
Your posts are certainly raising some "red flags". Projection filled, sick, twisted stuff on multiple threads. Maybe your rights should be restricted.
shareIt has been studied, a lot. They can find no link between violent video games and mass shootings. It's a scapegoat to rile up conservatives and take focus away from any gun control legislation.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.171474
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/soej.12139
https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fppm0000030
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/01/180116131317.htm
Cop-out excuse. Violent video games exist in other countries and none of those countries have high gun-related deaths.
shareEurope and the rest of the world do have more public mass shooting deaths per capita than the USA, contrary to partisan mythology.
https://crimeresearch.org/2015/06/comparing-death-rates-from-mass-public-shootings-in-the-us-and-europe/
https://crimeresearch.org/2018/08/new-cprc-research-how-a-botched-study-fooled-the-world-about-the-u-s-share-of-mass-public-shootings-u-s-rate-is-lower-than-global-average/
And those are just shootings. It doesn't count bombings, car attacks, or knife attacks. The USA has a higher routine murder rate than most European nations, but it also has different demographics and socio-cultural pressures. Routine violent crime in America is concentrated in urban centers and is largely gang related. Fortunately the murder rate has declined by about half since its modern peak in 1980.
As for video games, the concept of "garbage in/garbage out" is at least as old as Plato and it's obvious that people can be influenced by their entertainment: music, books, movies, games (though gaming likely has only a small impact on nudging a few people to extreme acts like murder; news media giving wall to wall notoriety to these killers has contributed more to this copycat trend that began after Columbine). That's why totalitarian regimes go to such lengths to control that stuff. It's how governments like North Korea's and China's successfully manipulate their own populations.
Which is why I strongly oppose censorship of material like that, and even more strongly oppose this gleeful rush by many to exploit these tragedies as excuses to completely shut down political voices they disagree with.