Author Topic: Annoying Orange, Republicans, & Fox News label Video Games as a cause of mass shootings (Read 2564 times)

Raoul Silva · August 05, 2019, 11:07:53 PM

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/sports/Annoying Orange-violent-video-games-studies.html

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/05/politics/violent-video-game-shooting-fact-check/index.html

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/8/5/20755092/gun-shooting-video-game-chart

"We must stop the glorification of violence in our society. This includes the gruesome and grisly video games that are now commonplace. It is too easy today for troubled youth to surround themselves with a culture that celebrates violence." - Donald Annoying Orange

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said that �video games that dehumanize individuals� are the problem. Other Republicans have spewed the same rhetoric, despite the countless studies and cases which have proven that video games do not cause one to act aggressively, let alone start a mass shooting.

"But Japan and South Korea � both of which have very strict laws limiting gun ownership � have among the lowest rates of violent crime in the world, and mass casualty events are quite rare."

Fox News has had numerous anchors blame video games.

The equivalent of saying Mario Kart causes car crashes.

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Deus Ex · August 05, 2019, 11:09:54 PM

lol, what artrd

Master Matthew� · August 05, 2019, 11:10:07 PM

And Democrats have lebeled Video Games as a systemic buzz words, buzz words buzz words... whatever.

TL;DR

People who don't play video games, point at video games, because old people + video games is basically the anti-life equation.

Anytime something happens, people don't like, BOOM, it's the video games.

cblock360 · August 05, 2019, 11:10:38 PM

If you let a game influence your hatred you are automatically a tard

Master Matthew� · August 05, 2019, 11:11:44 PM

Quote from: cblock360 on August 05, 2019, 11:10:38 PM

If you let a game influence your hatred you are automatically a tard

It's true, here's my proof

Nigel The Protagonist · August 05, 2019, 11:46:20 PM

King T�ny · August 06, 2019, 12:02:16 AM

This is awesome.

Now democrats will leave games alone because they don't want to agree with the president.

mod-man · August 06, 2019, 06:59:12 AM

gamers are the only class of people i'll happily admit deserve to be put in front of a firing squad

cromartini · August 06, 2019, 09:04:50 AM

Quote from: mod-man on August 06, 2019, 06:59:12 AM

gamers are the only class of people i'll happily admit deserve to be put in front of a firing squad

Gamers are like mosquitos. You shouldn't feel bad about killing one and you probably don't.

Mr. Bones · August 06, 2019, 09:06:54 AM

my dad is close to a boomer, turning 48 soon. his take was that violent games can be a deciding variable/enabler for people who are SICK, but not normal people. i'm obliged to agree

sadly, there isn't really a way to stop sick people from playing violent games that can motivate them

Mr Queeba · August 06, 2019, 09:23:38 AM

ah, yes. video games. the classic scapegoat for real life violence incidents

gameboy19 · August 06, 2019, 01:16:26 PM

Gamers rise up (I'm getting rather tired of this rhetoric media is pulling, along with other things will make a separate thread about it later.)

exit · August 06, 2019, 01:19:17 PM

bad parenting
bad parenting
bad parenting
bad parenting
oh did i say bad parenting?

SuperMalleo64 · August 06, 2019, 01:29:01 PM

Quote from: Master Matthew� on August 05, 2019, 11:11:44 PM

It's true, here's my proof
[im]https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fnicoblog.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F09%2Fhatred-pc-2015-reloaded.jpg&f=1[/img]

postal is superior
also a duckduckgo proxy link, you are a man of culture

also people like this are making me think games PREVENT shootings

sleep · August 06, 2019, 01:38:31 PM

because only the united states plays videogames ;)