From =: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/12/14/nine-facts-about-guns-and-mass-shootings-in-the-united-states/ The rise of violent video games started about mid 1990s with Doom and all that and has ramped up since then. Does it look like that had any effect whatsoever on that curve? Violent video games may be the tipping point that leads insane people to do insane things, but they're insane so nothing is going to work in regards to them other than improved mental health infrastructure. America has always been a violent nation. That's just who we have been, and will most likely continue to be. Finding the events you mentioned perfectly acceptable would be the case if video games had or had never existed in the first place. CNN host tries and fails to link videogames to violence, David Jaffe Responds
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From =: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/12/14/nine-facts-about-guns-and-mass-shootings-in-the-united-states/ The rise of violent video games started about mid 1990s with Doom and all that and has ramped up since then. Does it look like that had any effect whatsoever on that curve? Violent video games may be the tipping point that leads insane people to do insane things, but they're insane so nothing is going to work in regards to them other than improved mental health infrastructure. America has always been a violent nation. That's just who we have been, and will most likely continue to be. Finding the events you mentioned perfectly acceptable would be the case if video games had or had never existed in the first place. 
From =: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/12/14/nine-facts-about-guns-and-mass-shootings-in-the-united-states/ The rise of violent video games started about mid 1990s with Doom and all that and has ramped up since then. Does it look like that had any effect whatsoever on that curve? Violent video games may be the tipping point that leads insane people to do insane things, but they're insane so nothing is going to work in regards to them other than improved mental health infrastructure. America has always been a violent nation. That's just who we have been, and will most likely continue to be. Finding the events you mentioned perfectly acceptable would be the case if video games had or had never existed in the first place. Actually, gun violence has increased in the US over the years, and I'm also not sure why you're bringing guns into this when this is about video games, and how violent, savage behaviour is becoming more accepted each day. Also, the Virginia Tech shooter played violent video games, so there's proof that violence in video games factor in to real life violence. I don't think you fully understood my post; I didn't say violent video games are solely to blame for people perceiving savage violence as normal, but they do play a part in the grand scheme of things, which is what I think the CNN reporter was trying to get at; she's criticising the fact that video games have basically shown people that violence is good and acceptable, which shouldn't be the case in a normal and functioning society. This is all further enforced by the fact that most Americans were celebrating Gadaffi getting dragged through the streets of Libya. Such barbaric behaviour shouldn't be condoned but violent video games are playing a factor in this, and telling people that violence is acceptable. Also, I find it amusing that you justify extreme violence simply because "America has always been a violent nation". That kind of thinking is what leads to genocides, massacres and events that could otherwise be avoided. 
[QUOTE="hexashadow13"][QUOTE="QuebecNationale"] I have common sense and logic as evidence. Just think about it for a second. The War on terror/Afghanistan is a perfect example of how violence can sensualised and seen as normal to the average citizen. Do you remember when Americans in droves cried over the loss of a US soldier? What happened when the casualties rose in greater numbers? People didn't start to care what happened to the soldiers, nor did people care what war crimes their soldiers committed. Mass violence via invasion of a foreign country made violence an everyday occurrence, in which people didn't care. Did Americans care when Gadaffi's body was dragged through the streets of Libya? No, because your average American viewed it as fine and acceptable, which is what I think the news anchor was trying to get at. Video games do exactly that, they visualise extreme violence, and I personally think that video games play a part in why Americans view savage like violence as normal and just.QuebecNationaleSo you would expect gun violence to go up with the rise of violent video games, but that is hardly the case. Gun violence has been going down for quite a while, and video games have had absolutely no noticeable statistical effect on that.
From =: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/12/14/nine-facts-about-guns-and-mass-shootings-in-the-united-states/ The rise of violent video games started about mid 1990s with Doom and all that and has ramped up since then. Does it look like that had any effect whatsoever on that curve? Violent video games may be the tipping point that leads insane people to do insane things, but they're insane so nothing is going to work in regards to them other than improved mental health infrastructure. America has always been a violent nation. That's just who we have been, and will most likely continue to be. Finding the events you mentioned perfectly acceptable would be the case if video games had or had never existed in the first place. Also, the Virginia Tech shooter played violent video games, so there's proof that violence in video games factor in to real life violence. I don't think you fully understood my post; I didn't say violent video games are solely to blame for people perceiving savage violence as normal.You're implying it. Above is a perfect example. He also attended school, I guess we can blame schools too.
You said she is using video games to point out that killing is ok, yet she used GTA and said something that simply isn't true. You don't get points for running over or killing a hooker and it's not ok. You steal money from her and you also get a certain people coming after you.Â
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