How Video Game Connected to Gun Violence

Sat Jan 12, 2013 4:59 pm » by **domdabears**

Everyone needs to quit worrying they will and quit hoping they wont.

They aren't taking our guns away.

They might try, but they wont win.

And of course movies and games have some influence. Not all, but some.

Especially music videos and music. The rap world shaped the way our black people look and act today.

Not all but most. You can't deny that.

Sat Jan 12, 2013 5:15 pm » by **Scouser012**

domdabears wrote:Everyone needs to quit worrying they will and quit hoping they wont.

They aren't taking our guns away.

They might try, but they wont win.

And of course movies and games have some influence. Not all, but some.

Especially music videos and music. The rap world shaped the way our black people look and act today.

Not all but most. You can't deny that.

Well, in a way, if a person with the wrong mind plays those games then they could influenece them. I can't deny that.

Also, you can't deny that the easy access of a gun could influence the wrong type of person too.

Sat Jan 12, 2013 5:19 pm » by **domdabears**

Scouser012 wrote:
domdabears wrote:Everyone needs to quit worrying they will and quit hoping they wont.

They aren't taking our guns away.

They might try, but they wont win.

And of course movies and games have some influence. Not all, but some.

Especially music videos and music. The rap world shaped the way our black people look and act today.

Not all but most. You can't deny that.

Well, in a way, if a person with the wrong mind plays those games then they could influenece them. I can't deny that.

Also, you can't deny that the easy access of a gun could influence the wrong type of person too.

Yep, that's what I mean. A person with the wrong state of mind.

And you gotta also understand that this country is made into separate states. Every state is completely different with laws and so on. It's not easy to get a gun. Especially where I live. If you think breaking into someones house, killing them, and then take their gun. Then maybe.

Sat Jan 12, 2013 5:27 pm » by **Scouser012**

domdabears wrote:Yep, that's what I mean. A person with the wrong state of mind.

And you gotta also understand that this country is made into separate states. Every state is completely different with laws and so on. It's not easy to get a gun. Especially where I live. If you think breaking into someones house, killing them, and then take their gun. Then maybe.

Yeah, i understand that, America is a big place!

Sometimes its just easy for the wrong person to get a gun, like the killer at Sandy Hook. Now his parents should have locked up their guns better than they did, they should have made sure that their kids could not get to them. His mother was a legal gun owner wasn't she? I don't think she should have been deemed fit enough to own one if she couldn't keep them out of reach of others.

Sat Jan 12, 2013 5:27 pm » by **domdabears**

And people also need to understand that when sites like this or maybe sometimes the media says that the city of Chicago is full of gun violence is ridiculous.

The whole city of Chicago is not full of gun violence. It's only certain neighborhoods. That's affiliated with certain people to certain gangs.

The problem isn't the guns. It is the people.

These people grew up thinking they're "gangstas". This is how they were taught. This isn't a lie.

Some good people make it out of there and tell their story of success. You should see their faces and hear their stories.

And almost everytime they all say how lucky they are to be alive.

It's not the guns. It's the fuckin people and what they have been taught.

If guns killed people, then how does anyone survive a gun show?

Sat Jan 12, 2013 5:29 pm » by **domdabears**

Scouser012 wrote:
domdabears wrote:Yep, that's what I mean. A person with the wrong state of mind.

And you gotta also understand that this country is made into separate states. Every state is completely different with laws and so on. It's not easy to get a gun. Especially where I live. If you think breaking into someones house, killing them, and then take their gun. Then maybe.

Yeah, i understand that, America is a big place!

Sometimes its just easy for the wrong person to get a gun, like the killer at Sandy Hook. Now his parents should have locked up their guns better than they did, they should have made sure that their kids could not get to them. His mother was a legal gun owner wasn't she? I don't think she should have been deemed fit enough to own one if she couldn't keep them out of reach of others.

For sure. And there are some states in this country that there is a law saying your gun must have a gun lock on it or in a gun safe when it's inside your home.

But it's just a law and criminals don't follow them.

Sat Jan 12, 2013 5:29 pm » by **Scouser012**

domdabears wrote:And people also need to understand that when sites like this or maybe sometimes the media says that the city of Chicago is full of gun violence is ridiculous.

The whole city of Chicago is not full of gun violence. It's only certain neighborhoods. That's affiliated with certain people to certain gangs.

The problem isn't the guns. It is the people.

These people grew up thinking they're "gangstas". This is how they were taught. This isn't a lie.

Some good people make it out of there and tell their story of success. You should see their faces and hear their stories.

And almost everytime they all say how lucky they are to be alive.

It's not the guns. It's the fuckin people and what they have been taught.

If guns killed people, then how does anyone survive a gun show?

I agree with you Dom, all i think is that more work needs to be done to stop these type of people from getting a gun as easy as they do. Not sensible gun owners.

Sat Jan 12, 2013 5:32 pm » by **domdabears**

Nuclear bombs don't kill people, the people who press the button to release them kill people.

Same goes for that. It's all about the person.

Our government is full of hypocrites and the people who agree with them are too.

Sat Jan 12, 2013 5:36 pm » by **domdabears**

Scouser012 wrote:I agree with you Dom, all i think is that more work needs to be done to stop these type of people from getting a gun as easy as they do. Not sensible gun owners.

Of course. I don't want some nut who just got out of prison because he was charged with armed robbery to have a gun.

In Illinois he would never legally be able to own a gun. Criminals and mental problem people cant own a FOID card in this state. Firearms Owner Identification card. You need that to legally buy a gun or ammo in this state.

But a friend of his can just give him a gun. There's illegal guns in every country. Nothing you can do. Unless you wanted to make things inhumane for the citizens.

Sun Jan 13, 2013 1:07 am » by **Doogle**

WillEase666 wrote:
Troll2rocks wrote:You have got to be kidding me. Anyone who thinks a film or game can "make" someone go out and start killing, are deluded.

There is a disconnect between something shown on a screen, to what you experience in the "real world".

Also, Willease you are a post hoe!

I thought for sure you would ask me why I posted this under 'prophecy and utopia'.

"Prophecy and Utopia"? A sign of things to come maybe?

Anyway, certain people that are predisposed to committing acts of violence are probably tipped over the edge by playing violent "games", whereas normal, rationally thinking people keep it just to that. Most people can draw the line between fantasy and reality and in turn, the difference between making the fantasy become a reality and keeping the fantasy bound to the console.

However, when you consider advertising, you have to think again. Around $500 billion is spent worldwide every year on promoting stuff by bombarding the viewer with repeating images and slogans because you know why? Because it works. It influences attitudes and behaviour.
The constant repeating of imagery and associated audio must have an influence, why else the expenditure on advertising.

Still, why anyone in a society (or societies) in a world where real people are ripped apart physically and emotionally by war and acts of violence, would want to simulate it, albeit for fun (Fuck me, it's a sick world) and pretend to play the soldier or murderer is beyond me.

If anything, it is at least desensitising those that continually play the killer, or soldier, to acts of violence.
Some of you have been to war, but to the rest, drop the keypad and sign up - see how you really like it.

And we wonder why we take this shit. Mind control on a subtle level - Perhaps?