Lets see, another school shooting another game of "place the balme for the overall incompetence" right I get ya, sad that there have never been a study that ever showed that games makes people afressive or violent, well atleast not more then driving a car or sitting in a waiting room, but you know, easy scapegoats are good for removing the focus.
This is pretty clear, sofar there have been a lot of shootings in the later years, most can be contributed to the facts we know, malajusted people, broken down school systems that does not have time or resources to spend teaching every person about morals and ethics, aswell as the lack of the healthcare options to spot people with mental problems.
In truth Patents should watch over thier children, but the US is afraid to place that blame, it is the parents job to teach ethics, to judge if thier children are allright and thriving. When they fail, the blame gets tossed round.
Lets say that Oh Idunno, the lack of connection between people nowadays might be a cause, how people are MUCH more likely to be isolated, how communities don't really give a damn about eachother.
Instead of considering in the communities and states we live in are healthy to begin with and start SPENDING so much money that you would'nt belive on correcting alot of these errors, we won't see the end of this, but rather we have households, where parents and children does not know eachother, not really, do not have time for eachother. Bills have to be paied and peoples personal life is that much more important afterall, right?
The system needs to change before you see differences.
Blaming it on guns are stupid, but the gun control needs to be WAY stricter, people keep underestimating how hard it can be to get an illigal firearm, it is not just going out on a street corner. Personal defence weapons certainly don't encompass Assault Rifles. But banning guns? naah, there needs to be a way better psychiatric system in place in the US, even if people whine about the higher taxes it will cost, and alot of those mental issues should exclude you from having firearms, even most of the minor disturbances.
While a gun is a tool (as often brought up) While it is a tool with the sole function of killing (making it vastly different from near all other tools) it is in the end just a tool, it does nothing if the person holding it, has no intentions, in the end it is the person pulling the triger that are the danger, not the gun.
But since this will cost too much money people will gladly sacrifice a a handful of people instead it seems. (This is irony in case it were not clear enough).
Games is even dumber, no studies EVER (atleast not those not funded by lobbies and people who wants a clear result pointing to negative) concluded that violent games makes people more violent, they can make people uncomfortably accustomed to seeing violence, make people more passive. But so the majority of studies (there were 3 or 4 very interresting ones throughout EU where goverments of the different countries had independent studies running on the same time, and they all came to the same conclutions, since they were payied by the goverments, the bias should be less then some privately founded research would).
Sofar, if you play soccer or baseball, drive a car, watch a violent movie or go shopping, you would according to the results be more incliined for violent behavior, (which ofcourse is next to not likely) the results of those studies were that IF people got more violent by games, it would be of such a small amount that it were unmeasurable.
So this is the NRA getting nervous and tryies to shift the blame, that is all.
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