How Video Game Connected to Gun Violence

Sat Jan 12, 2013 9:32 am » by **WillEase666**

Sat Jan 12, 2013 9:42 am » by **WillEase666**

VIOLENT Video GAMES Will Be Regulated

Sat Jan 12, 2013 9:49 am » by **Troll2rocks**

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!

Sat Jan 12, 2013 9:52 am » by **Edgar 2.0**

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Sat Jan 12, 2013 10:15 am » by **WillEase666**

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'. :roll:

Sat Jan 12, 2013 10:26 am » by **Iwanci**

Sorry dudes, there is NO doubt in my mind that there is a connection between gun violence and violent video games, no doubt,

I believe the connection however is not that wacthing a video game motivates someone to commit the violent act, rather, I believe that watching the video game inspires one who is already thinking of committing the act, what the video game does is provides the purpotrator with the 'how' and gives them a false sense or 'can do' attitude.

This is not new however, who here is old enough to remember younger days watching TV shows or going to the movies? Who then can remember watching a war movie or spaghetti western or karate movie and believing they were invincible? This is a very common association that children make with movies and especially movie charachters...

Could it be that the video game has replaced the good old movie in this respect?

Not saying that the movie or video game is responsible for the act, however, given the right mental difficiency (either temporary or permanent) an individual may just be swayed to act where he/she may normally not do so.

Just saying...

Sat Jan 12, 2013 10:45 am » by **Edgar 2.0**

Games don’t kill people – but gamers sometimes do. The latest example being Anders Breivik, who claims in his manifesto to have used Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 as a way to train himself for the massacre which caused the deaths of 76 people. He describes himself as a hardcore gamer who, before embarking on a career as a terrorist, devoted a year of his life to playing World of Warcraft.

http://www.sabotagetimes.com/reportage/anders-breivik-did-call-of-duty-really-influence-the-norway-massacre/

You may have heard by now that Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik played video games: violent “first-person shooters” such as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. According to news reports, Breivik claimed that he honed his targeting and shooting skills by playing Call of Duty. Does this claim make sense? Should we pull these games from store shelves? I don’t think so.

In the mid-2000s, I directed a $1.5 million, U.S. government-funded Harvard research project on violent video games and teens. I gave dozens of media interviews about my findings. Subsequently, whenever video games were linked to a crime or problem, more reporters called. After several widely covered shooting incidents at U.S. schools in the 1990s,we seem to have developed a “mental frame” that certain crimes, especially mass shootings by young men, are likely to be linked to violent video game play.

http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/04/25/does-breiviks-claims-of-honing-skills-on-call-of-duty-mean-we-should-worry-about-video-games/

The 33-year-old said he practised his shot using a "holographic aiming device" on the war simulation game, which he said is used by armies around the world for training.

"You develop target acquisition," he said. He used a similar device during the shooting attacks that left 69 dead at a political youth camp on the island of Utøya on 22 July.

Describing the game, he said: "It consists of many hundreds of different tasks and some of these tasks can be compared with an attack, for real. That's why it's used by many armies throughout the world. It's very good for acquiring experience related to sights systems."

He added: "If you are familiar with a holographic sight, it's built up in such a way that you could have given it to your grandmother and she would have been a super marksman. It's designed to be used by anyone. In reality it requires very little training to use it in an optimal way. But of course it does help if you've practised using a simulator."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/19/anders-breivik-call-of-duty

Sat Jan 12, 2013 11:11 am » by **Megame23**

I'm not one to blame all shootings on video games, I find most of the media reports that blame video games for violence are quite absurd, and they just imply that because there is any violence in video games, it is thus being encouraged, which is just retarded and I wont comment on that, but then we have things in our media, not just games, but also movies, TV shows, whatever, that do actually glorify the murder of innocent people, I'd say we shouldn't sell games to children which encourage them to butcher civilians. I hate Call of Duty with a passion, heres the main reason:

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One more example, the movie Rampage is about a kid who makes himself armor, and arms himself to go on a killing spree, thats the movie, thats all it is, and the only reason I know it exists is because i heard people talking about how cool it was. Clearly these things dont benefit society in any way...

This movie evidently ends (haven't seen it, though the ending was used to make a point in one of the sandy hook movies I watched.) with the kid having framed another kid for it somehow, making it look like a suicide. The father of the murdered child is shouting that his son wouldn't do something like this as the cops are taking him away. The real murderer just gets off, is this Hollywood showing people what is really happening? maybe, regardless of if it is or not, this bullshit movie is glorifying the murder of children and has no place in a decent society.

Sat Jan 12, 2013 1:35 pm » by **Pitchke**

Specialists say other things .. so please read these articles!!

http://articles.courant.com/2013-01-04/ ... a-violence

http://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/04/20/ ... PFJc2esnng

http://psychcentral.com/news/2010/12/15 ... 21824.html

People have been killing each other for thousands of years now , yeah blame it on movies and videogames!!! :bang;

Sat Jan 12, 2013 4:48 pm » by **Scouser012**

Anything but the guns! :bullshit: