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Surreal: NRA blames Connecticut shooting on... video games

Morrigan

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The facepalm is not strong enough for this one:

http://ca.ign.com/articles/2012/12/21/nra-blames-violent-entertainment-for-shootings-eca-responds

The NRA has lashed out at violent entertainment as the cause of the recent shootings in Newtown, Connecticut. In a press conference held earlier today and a statement posted on the NRA’s official site, NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre said violent crime is increasing and that “there exists in this country a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells, and sows, violence against its own people.”

LaPierre specifically called out “vicious, violent video games with names like Bulletstorm, Grand Theft Auto, Mortal Kombat and Splatterhouse” and pointed to a ten year-old flash game called Kindergarten Killer as well as “blood-soaked slasher films like American Psycho and Natural Born Killers.” LaPierre said such films “are aired like propaganda loops on ‘Splatterdays’ and every day” along with “a thousand music videos that portray life as a joke and murder as a way of life.”


“And then they have the nerve to call it ‘entertainment,’” LaPierre added, “but is that what it really is? Isn't fantasizing about killing people as a way to get your kicks really the filthiest form of pornography?
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The nerve, indeed. It's just... the hubris is so mind-blowing as to be surreal. Not only has every study shown no causal link between video game violence and real life violence, but has this ignorant moron ever heard of Japan, a country whose culture is deeply soaked in video games and violent media (from movies to Anime), and where gun violence is near zero? Or that Canada has the same games as the USA and an insignificant fraction of the gun violence?

And of course the claim that "violent crime is increasing" has pretty much been shown to be false, whereas video game consumption has been constantly increasing. Oops!

But to me, the icing on the cake, is that this bitching comes from the VP of the goddamn NRA. It's just too precious.
 
So out of touch. Almost a Reefer Madness like view of how video games affect people.
 
Didn't they play the "video game" card before? The NRA, no new ideas but lots of bullets.
 
You think he is out of touch ? Think again. He is not trying to convince gamer or average folk, he is preaching to the choir (NRA lovers) that gun and NRA policy have nothing to do whatsoever with that tragedy and this is those pesky dangerous game. And the people hearing the NRA will say "amen" and will swallow the things whole.

You wanna bet ?
 
You think he is out of touch ? Think again. He is not trying to convince gamer or average folk, he is preaching to the choir (NRA lovers) that gun and NRA policy have nothing to do whatsoever with that tragedy and this is those pesky dangerous game. And the people hearing the NRA will say "amen" and will swallow the things whole.

You wanna bet ?
 
The fool! He would disarm the Greil Mercenaries and leave them unable to defend Crimea against the invasion from Daein!
 
They're confusing realistic graphics with a sense of realism.

It's funny that Mortal Kombat got brought up cause I don't really see bloody fist fights to the death at all.

And why don't games like Batman ever get brought up? We should also be seeing heroes saving us from crime without using guns.
 
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Twenty years later and people are still complaining about Mortal Kombat? The original was actually kind of a crappy game, but the sequel, on SNES, wow. Good stuff.
 
Is this really a surprise?

I doubt the video game lobby would come out and say "it's video games" they would probably say "it's guns" or "it's parenting" or "it's a complicated issue".

No lobbying group that represents a special interest would put the blame on that interest! They wouldn't be doing their jobs if they did
 
and what would that be? oh wait, the ant-gun crazies have no answer other than "BAN GUNS"
 
30 odd years ago when visiting family in the US which we did every year and I still do, it was unusual to see a household with a gun, a few of my family's friends had one but not many now it seems the other way around, and there was not an obsession with guns that seems fairly recent too.
 
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