Long - Video Games and Violence

I disagree OP ive been playin video games since i was born that were violent and i haven't shot a whole school filled with kids

mind giving a summary?

Cracked.com is useful and funny. I'm glad that its face has been shown on Funny Junk.

If games make people violent, then all I can say is.


Bin laden played way to much GTA.

When I was a kid, before violent video games really existed, my toy box looked something like this picture here. Dart guns, cap guns, squirt guns, swords, bows, and a whole bunch of other toys designed to look and feel like instruments of death. me and my friends would spend all afternoon shooting each other in the face with nerf darts. Before that, kids just used their hands in the shape of a gun and had sword fights with sticks. Video games are just the latest incarnation, but I don't really see how hitting the X button and making pictures move on the screen makes you more violent than paintball and laser tag.

I do agree very much with the statement that taking away guns doesn't take away the urge to kill, that has always been a standby of mine. If someone wants someone dead and can't find a gun, they will just improvise, hairspray and a lighter can get the job done, home made ballistic bombs, run them over, it's not hard to kill someone without a gun. Who said gun control will stop anyone from getting guns anyways, weed is illegal and would you look at that, a good portion of Americans say they have tried it at some point, and there are quite a few people who smoke weed errday. There is a very real and thriving black market, things still get bought and sold even when the stores stop selling them.

Like Obama said in his speech, 900 people have been shot and killed in the month since 20 died in the school shooting, and I'm sure somewhere in that ballpark died every month leading up to it as well, and nobody gave a shit until it all happened at once, until it happened to children. Everybody flips out whenever a mass shooting happens and starts looking for someone to blame and begging for gun control but when people get shot daily, just business as usual, nobody cares.

I think media of all kinds have little to do with it, studies on mice have shown overpopulation leads to suicidal and homicidal behavior. Too many people, too much poverty, not enough education.

I think it's funny that the same parents who support the media that hosts shows like "spongebob", "pokemon", "johnny test", which could all be easily taken out of context, are the ones who are against violent video games, which are marked "M for 17+ year olds".

I grew up watching pokemon, yet i don't go outside, imprison helpless animals, and force them to fight for me. That though would have never come into my head when i was 8/9/10/11/12 years old.

hell, even now, as the black metal/death metal loving, GTA/ FPS player i've become, i know that if a song like "hammer smashed face" by cannibal corpse comes on and says "I'll see you die at my feet, eternally I smash your face, Facial bones collapse as I crack your skull in half, Crushing, cranial, contents, Draining the snot, I rip out the eyes" I know better than to go "hur dur, better go bludgeon someone to death"

they say violent video games are bad and shit, without looking at WHO the antagonist is.

Black ops (1) is centered around the cold war, are they going to say "the u.s. was teaching terrible morals for fighting off the communist aggression?".
But yet, if you simulate the same effect via video game, it turns into some huge ordeal.

The people who do these kinds of things aren't write in the head, even by my standards, but it's not entirely their fault either.

I know it's cliche, but parents need to do their fucking part in raising their fuck ups.
Many others, including myself, get by in society without having a structured family, but if the parents need to TEACH their kids the difference between reality and fiction, and about the value of life.

Sometimes it's unavoidable, yes, but a lot of the times people kill others because they have pent up feelings they don't understand or are mentally ill/ emotionally unstable and haven't been taught how to handle it so they freak out and lose controll.

That's my 2 cents at least.

Interesting points, but the average person has CONTROL OF THEMSELVES. It is still the less than 1% that go nuts and murder a bunch of people. I know people who play violent video games 24/7 and they aren't going to go murder anyone. I do agree that young children shouldn't play violent games, but it is the parents that let them play, so there is not much that can be done there unless there is more pressure or awareness on the parent that lets them know what they are buying their kid.

Did you really expect people to read this OP? I read it earlier and while it is interesting, it really isn't funny.