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Subject: Top Story NRA condemns games in wake of Connecticut shooting

I am alpha, i am omega.

I am the last of the primes.

Oh dear, NRA should take gun Manufacturers dick out their back end.

  • 12.21.2012 2:05 PM PDT

THe lack of good, available mental healthcare is the danger. Why is that so hard to see?

  • 12.21.2012 2:09 PM PDT

RIP Logan ~B.B.

As the paid shill of weapon manufacturers, the idea they would never talk seriously about gun control is 100% unsurprising. Sadly, their redneck utopian plan of militarily armed schools isn't surprising either. However, I was pretty shocked that instead of falling back on the age old canard "guns don't kill people, people do", they instead blamed games, movies, and music. Seemed to me like a completely ironic reversal of logic. I guess they are now open to the argument that intimate objects help facilitate these tragedies. I think attempting to use this new "blame games" line of reasoning is ultimately suicidal for them if they are willing to convince people that object can indeed be partially at fault. I assume they'll figure that out and back off of those statements entirely.

  • 12.21.2012 2:12 PM PDT

inb4lock

OT: They are a bunch of idiots. The fact that they are AGAIN blaming the media and stating they need more guns at schools is pathetic. And that's putting it nicely.

Parenting. This is the key point. I'm not going to let my kids play violent games until they understand games in general and the difference between the two.

  • 12.21.2012 2:17 PM PDT
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This is the problem.... Everybody blames other people when the fault is with them. Nobody has the balls to take the blame for themselves especially when it involves these problems. The reason they don't want to provide better mental healthcare is because it will dig into their pockets making the facilities and supplying the employees and this they won't do.

Instead they do what is easy and put the blame on something or somebody else. Everyone needs to live up to their mistakes and be better for it the next time.

  • 12.21.2012 2:26 PM PDT

Posted by: BlazingAngel94
Just recently posted this on Facebook:

Brainwashing, idiotic media: "hur dur, vido gaems cas vilenc n iz nt gud. dey ned 2 b baned."

Logic: Really? Then please explain how there's violence in third world countries. I guess they're all poor due to the large amount of video games they buy.
That's a really silly post to make. For the voice of logic, you seem to have made the fatal assumption that the media are saying that Videogames are the only cause of violence. Pretty sure Hyperbole like that is a fallacy.

  • 12.21.2012 2:29 PM PDT

I r guy who gun to teach u lesson

GTA taught me how to drive.

  • 12.21.2012 2:31 PM PDT

No thought required, just spawn and GOOOOOOOOOOO

I hope more people blame video games.


I want videogames to be demonized.

That way, all the fratboys and idiots who use videogames as fashion accessories and buy CODDEN every year will stop playing videogames.

That way parents become too afraid to buy their kids videogames.


That way all the casuals will stop buying bad videogames and paying for over priced DLC.


That way developers are forced to actually make GOOD videogames inorder for true hobbyists to actually buy them.

We will enter a new goldenage of video games.

  • 12.21.2012 2:33 PM PDT


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Posted by: DatDudeBV
I agree with them.
You agree with everything the rest of the Flood disagrees with.


For the most part. Yes. The flood is filled with liberals so it's only logical that I'll disagree with them.

  • 12.21.2012 2:34 PM PDT
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***Aberrant Designs***

Finished the fight on September 26,2007, 10:49pm EST
Remembered Reach on September 15th, 2010 9:30pm EST

So basically, it's everyone's fault except our own?


Mkay.

  • 12.21.2012 2:36 PM PDT
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Posted by: DatDudeBV

Posted by: BombasticBurrito

Posted by: DatDudeBV
I agree with them.
You agree with everything the rest of the Flood disagrees with.


For the most part. Yes. The flood is filled with liberals so it's only logical that I'll disagree with them.
Your isulting people based on what political view they agree with?

  • 12.21.2012 2:37 PM PDT

Recon Number 54 -
If they are still looking, then while holding the snarl, I let drool start to drip from my mouth, I stand, curl my fingers into claws and with a hunched over crouch, I then make slow and deliberate steps towards them. When I get close enough, I let them hear my agonized and gasping growls and then, if they continue to stare, when I get within arm's reach? I kiss them on the nose, and run away giggling.

Breaking news, media outlet reports biased and inaccurate statements as fact.

  • 12.21.2012 2:38 PM PDT

What?

Europe plays video games too, but their rates of violence are much, much lower.
Japan plays and makes tons of video games, but they have hardly any violence, especially with guns.
Australia and New Zealand play video games too, and they have hardly any violence either.

It's not a cultural problem. The NRA has a vested interest in diverting attention away from the real cause of violent crime: poverty and easy access to weapons.

  • 12.21.2012 2:40 PM PDT


Posted by: BombasticBurrito

Posted by: DatDudeBV

Posted by: BombasticBurrito

Posted by: DatDudeBV
I agree with them.
You agree with everything the rest of the Flood disagrees with.


For the most part. Yes. The flood is filled with liberals so it's only logical that I'll disagree with them.
Your isulting people based on what political view they agree with?


Who did I insult?

  • 12.21.2012 2:53 PM PDT

Online ID: GriffGraff15

All political parties are blaming violent video games, I've seen stories in the last week on both NBC and FOX news about it.

I agree to a certain extent that violence in video games can lead to desensitization towards violent acts and images, but if violent video games were the CAUSE of these violent acts, then there would be a huge amount more of these mass shootings. I think they are a factor, not more or less important than the other factors (mental health, gun control, better school security, etc) that are all under scrutiny in the last year (and specifically this week)

  • 12.21.2012 2:57 PM PDT


Posted by: DatDudeBV
I agree with them.

  • 12.21.2012 2:58 PM PDT

Signatures are for little kids.

I never felt violent after playing Barbie Horse Adventures, it just made me want to brush the mane of a beautiful stallion.

But if a kid in their early teens plays 7 hours of games a day where they're basically shooting everything that moves I think that might have a bad effect on their thinking.

Parents should be better though. If a kid is playing video games for 7 hours a day and nobody gives enough of a crap to do something about it then that's sad.

Time to sterilize all people in childhood and only reverse the sterilization if they can pass comprehensive tests on child psychology and common sense.

  • 12.21.2012 2:59 PM PDT

I'm the Almighty Breadstick


Posted by: MyNameIsCharlie
Yup, the rampage killers used games, not guns, to kill all those people. Games kill over 10,000 people every year in the US.
I just imagined the killer beating a teacher to death with a limited edition copy of halo 4 and laughed.

I'm going to hell.

  • 12.21.2012 3:01 PM PDT

Somebody showed me the Scarab Gun in Halo 2 once.
I was like WHOA DUDE, WHOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAA
Then I sorta blanked out in a red haze and when I came to, everyone was dead.

Yep, the NRA's trying to further their own stupid agenda again.
Video games are probably going to be the main scapegoat for crap like this for a few decades.

Does anybody even know what the shooter's motives were yet, or if he even played violent video games? So much jumping to conclusions, everywhere.

Having armed security on school grounds makes sense. Letting random people waltz around with guns does not.

Fun fact: The NRA used to send me letters, asking for donations to "protect muh freedoms". When I was fifteen.

[Edited on 12.21.2012 3:25 PM PST]

  • 12.21.2012 3:17 PM PDT

The Spartan Special Ops - Now with more LOLgasms!

Posted by: EnragedElite67
"The problem with quotes on the internet is 95% are made up." - Socrates

I guess I should link the press release again.


Actually read it, it's a bit long, but Wayne's words are what is most important.

The NRA actually offers a solution.

Press release

  • 12.21.2012 3:17 PM PDT
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Quick think of a way to defend our weapons that we love!

Lets blame video games that contain weapons that people love!

  • 12.21.2012 3:21 PM PDT
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Remember when everyone was blaming Marilyn Manson and Doom for being too realistic?

Good times, media never fails in the idiocy department.

  • 12.21.2012 3:23 PM PDT
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CHEESE!!!!!!!!!!!!


I am the alt of Masterchief9095.

I'm fine if they ban games I don't care for and don't play. As long as it isn't Halo, The Elder Scrolls, Mass Effect, and Borderlands

  • 12.21.2012 3:25 PM PDT

The Spartan Special Ops - Now with more LOLgasms!

Posted by: EnragedElite67
"The problem with quotes on the internet is 95% are made up." - Socrates


Posted by: ronaldmcdonald
Quick think of a way to defend our weapons that we love!

Lets blame video games that contain weapons that people love!


It's not so much blaming video games as much as it is an affront to the media in general.

Media does release some quite violent things, you can't deny that. But the Media is also the first to cause outcry when something like what happened last week, happens. They start going in the blame train, blaming everyone but them selves.


What I believe Wayne LaPierre was trying to say was that we have to take responsibility for our own actions. When something like this happens, we have no one to blame but our selves.


I don't agree with how he presented it. He could have presented it much, much better. But the point remains.

The NRA was not directly attacking video games, the NRA was attacking the mindset of the blame game.


The rest of the press release was fantastic. It drove the point home. We have problems to fix, and sitting here turning it into a Political circus will not fix those problems.

  • 12.21.2012 3:34 PM PDT
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All that is needed for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.


Posted by: SpartanMk18
For those interested, here is the entire press release.

Press release

It was a short snippet that involved video games, and I think it was more of a criticism of all media in general. That Hollywood makes violent movies and TV shows, then attacks firearms when something goes bad and ignores their possible influence.


I don't entirely agree with it, but Wayne made some points. Everyone tries to move the blame away from them selves.
*sees NRA.org*
*closes tab*

  • 12.21.2012 3:46 PM PDT

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