Current Events > Do you think video games do contribute to school shootings?

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Supposedly the governor of kentucky has laid a lot of the florida shooting on video games. What are your thoughts on their correlation?

No, the fact that we make every mass shooter infamous does
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yes
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maybe
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The Florida shooter was a big fan of Splatoon 2, a game that glorifies gun violence. What does that tell you?

Nintendo doesn't care so long as their wallets are lined with the money of those whose lives they have indirectly trampled.

If video games caused the generation of the kind of mental problems needed for someone to start murdering, we would have wiped ourselves out by now.
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There was no violence before video games.
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Of course not. It'll be like saying violent movies cause violence. People just want to blame something so they can avoid talking about the actual problem.
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thronedfire2 posted...

No, the fact that we make every mass shooter infamous does

Could easily be a factor.
Doesn't they shouldn't be covered by the media.
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Fuck no.

And reminder that the deadliest school massacre in American history was like 70 or 80 years before vids were mainstream.
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It definitely has. But it's so minuscule it's not even worth talking about.
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if we are counting the lag on online multiplayers too, yeah they might have.
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No. Rampant obesity is what videogames are actually causing.

directly? no.
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Shut up, Jack.
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No, but we can use this as an excuse to ban FPS games anyway

Well, I have noticed that the kids who are super into FPS games are the ones with the most stunted sense of empathy and emotional intelligence.
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The rest of the world has video games but doesn't have mass school shootings. Hmmmm, what does America have that the rest of the world doesn't......
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MutantJohn posted...

Well, I have noticed that the kids who are super into FPS games are the ones with the most stunted sense of empathy and emotional intelligence.

well i have heard people say that maybe vid games may damage society to some degree but it still doesn't damage it as much as smoking, drinking, drugs, religion etc., all that are mostly still legal

KazGT6 posted...

MutantJohn posted...

Well, I have noticed that the kids who are super into FPS games are the ones with the most stunted sense of empathy and emotional intelligence.

well i have heard people say that maybe vid games may damage society to some degree but it still doesn't damage it as much as smoking, drinking, drugs, religion etc., all that are mostly still legal

Oh, I just think people with a stunted sense of empathy and emotional intelligence are drawn to FPS games. Also, people with "gun hero" fantasy syndrome.
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I don't think so. But I read a study that the shooters have better aim and know where to aim
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Videogames won't turn you into a killer. Its fucking common sense. People who blame videogames ignore studies which say they don't affect people in that way, they can make you more passive and cause insomnia etc.. Its also interesting for people to blame video games without mentioning any studies which back them up...oh wait! there are fucking none.
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Only in the aspect of that it inspires minds who already have murderous thoughts, much like other media. It doesn't turn otherwise innocent people into murderers.
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Reminds me of that fool Jack Thompson.
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