U.S. senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) has responded to questions from GameSpot as part of a Google hangout on the issue of video game violence and their potential role in mass shootings.
Murphy, whose state of Connecticut witnessed a horrific tragedy at the Sandy Hook elementary school in December, had spoken of the effect violent games could have on mentally ill players, or players with a ... [ read the full article ]
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to sum it up people are responsible for their action not video games.some people seam to want to blame objects and not the person or people doing the acts. yes video games have violence in them but people should have commone sense not to act out what they see in video games or movies exct.
Originally posted by supersaiyaman: to sum it up people are responsible for their action not video games.some people seam to want to blame objects and not the person or people doing the acts. yes video games have violence in them but people should have commone sense not to act out what they see in video games or movies exct.
I think his point is that some people don't have common sense. The shooter in this case was textbook crazy.
Still, even if there was a link shown definitively between video game violence and mentally ill people doing INSANE things, I'm not sure what you can do to tackle that issue other than attempt to improve mental health services. Look at the Aurora shootings, for example, that guy literally wanted to look like the Joker from The Dark Knight, another textbook crazy individual but you can't blame the movie or anyone involved in it for his actions, nor can you really do much about it on the content side... the only thing you can do is improve mental health awareness and services.
All life on this planet does not breathe oxygen. Plants are life and they "breathe" carbon dioxide.
Well, I guess, technically, you could say all life that needs to breathe gases from Earth's atmosphere are both oxygen and carbon dioxide breathers. :) They're breathing in both gases from the air, but, only require one of them, specifically, for their own life needs.
I think nizers99 is trying to point out the silliness in the so called gateway drug argument. That studies have shown that people who are likely to abuse hard drugs because they use marijuana are also people who drink milk. Therefore, milk drinkers are also likely, by that faulty logic, to be hard drug users. That milk is also a gateway drug by the same studies that say marijuana is a gateway drug. That violent video games are also a "gateway drug" because some shooters played them and they were also people who went on violent rampages.
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