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Do You Think That Violent Video Games/ Movies Are An Issue

Do You Think That Violent Video Games/ Movies Are An Issue

  • No

    Votes: 64 72.7%
  • Yes

    Votes: 18 20.5%
  • Other

    Votes: 6 6.8%

  • Total voters
    88
The same things we've been doing.
Violent crime has been going down for decades.

Just stay the course, rather than concoct useless bans on video games, movies and guns.


Thank you for further evidence that violent video game makes people more accepting of violence.
 
A system that prevents kids from being exposed to non-stop violence, whatever that takes.

if you are an american you are in the wrong country, this is a free country and you are talking nonsense about this subject.

Id keep my kids away from people with ideas like yours because i consider them more dangerous than a video game. My kid knows that is fantasy because she is normal, mental stable and knows right from wrong because she was properly raised..
 
Thank you for further evidence that violent video game makes people more accepting of violence.
Please tell me how this provides further proof that video games make people more accepting of violence?
 
Thank you for further evidence that violent video game makes people more accepting of violence.

WOW now you are just making stuff up, what proof?
 
Come up with better solutions then for reducing violence in this country.



Better solutions have already been proposed:

Fund mental institutions; make it a little easier to get a dangerous person committed to one.

Improve school security; more armed persons (of one sort or another) there to defend the kids.

These two would go a LONG way... but it isn't the sound-bite answer certain persons are looking for.
 
Better solutions have already been proposed:

Fund mental institutions; make it a little easier to get a dangerous person committed to one.

Improve school security; more armed persons (of one sort or another) there to defend the kids.

These two would go a LONG way... but it isn't the sound-bite answer certain persons are looking for.

No, I think those are all good suggestions, I have others make the same suggestions in addition to the measures that have already been proposed. We have a major problem and one solution alone is not going to address it in any significant way.
 
No, I think those are all good suggestions, I have others make the same suggestions in addition to the measures that have already been proposed. We have a major problem and one solution alone is not going to address it in any significant way.

Why not ban alcohol, while you're at it.
It has a strong association with violent crime.
 
Why not ban alcohol, while you're at it.
It has a strong association with violent crime.


Yup. The majority of murders, and the majority of vehicular homicides. Not to mention spousal abuse, child abuse, and a host of other crimes.

Yet no one is talking about banning booze.
 
No, I think those are all good suggestions, I have others make the same suggestions in addition to the measures that have already been proposed. We have a major problem and one solution alone is not going to address it in any significant way.

agreed but your suggestions will not help, video games are meaningless

gun banning and waiting periods they do the opposite they endanger people
 
Please tell me how this provides further proof that video games make people more accepting of violence?

I thought you stated that you grew up on violent video games.
 
I thought you stated that you grew up on violent video games.

Yes I did and I am not accepting of violence. I can draw that distinction between real and virtual worlds like all sane people can.
 
agreed but your suggestions will not help, video games are meaningless

gun banning and waiting periods they do the opposite they endanger people


Well unless you get something passed that reduces the needless slaughter of innocents in this country each year, others are going to do it their way.


So........you better get busy!
 
Yup. The majority of murders, and the majority of vehicular homicides. Not to mention spousal abuse, child abuse, and a host of other crimes.

Yet no one is talking about banning booze.

Perhaps because the reality of that folly is still in recent memory. The banning of anything in high demand creates an immediate criminally controlled market to maintain the supply. Many banned things are in greater supply now that before they were banned, e.g. cocaine and heroin.
 
Yes I did and I am not accepting of violence. I can draw that distinction between real and virtual worlds like all sane people can.


So you are as up in arms about the 10,000 homicides with guns each year as I am, right?
 
Yes I did and I am not accepting of violence. I can draw that distinction between real and virtual worlds like all sane people can.

I'm in my early 30s. Every guy I know plays some kind of video game that has violence in it. Many of these guys are hardcore, anti-war, anti- death penalty liberals. It is just something the younger generations do to pass the time.
 
You don't seem so up in arms about the 40,000 deaths related to alcohol though.
Seems like you're "shooting" to ban the wrong things.

Add it to the list. I don't drink, it will be no hardship on me!
 
Well unless you get something passed that reduces the needless slaughter of innocents in this country each year, others are going to do it their way.


So........you better get busy!

translation: you dont have actual ways to help that will work, got it

im not worried about people bringing stupid ideas to the table that will endanger other, not be affective and waste money :shrug: if enough dumb people get together to try and get it passed me and other sane people will vote against it because i care about my fellow americans :shrug:
 
Lately the media, especially the liberal media has been scapegoating video games as a possible factor in the Connecticut shooting.
Sounds about right, they've been blaming music, video games, and tv for forever and a week now. Anything to shirk responsibility and avoid the root of the problem.

Please explain your opinion.
My answer is obviously no. If video games and movies were an actual problem, or even a factor in the violence, there would be millions of these occurrences every day.
 
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