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Gut Out!
What, me worry?
Harsh restrictions to guns so that getting a gun would be hard aren't convenient.
A major reform of the political system that is currently causing US people to divide instead of managing to unify like it's supposed to do wouldn't be convenient.
Finding a scapegoat so that you can act against something that doesn't matter to you and blame someone else is convenient.
If you've got a more organized group adults then I think matters less whether they use weapons, knifes, home-made bombs, or something else. Humans are always able to kill each other, it's only a question of whether we give them weapons so that they can do it easier, or force them to figure out harder ways.
A screening for smaller problems before giving people access to guns would likely help against mass shooters. A screening for large enough problems to send someone into involuntary treatment would help very little because most mass shooters would pass that test.
Now for any given issue that can be true, maybe there are wider issues, maybe it is down to policies or other factors. The issue for journalism is that their immediate knee jerk reaction is to throw the blame net as widely as possible with or without evidence to back up their claims.
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The point is not wether games makes people want to become murders, is whether a game in unhealthy.
They way the argument is being made is trying to draw direct parallels. Like there is a direct allergic reaction, or some kind of physical manifestation in the brain/body. Also it tries to deviate from the obvious, that negative online behavior is a problem, but focusing on single player games.
However anything that is unhealthy adds to negative behavior which then from a statistical point of view will result in a more violent population.
The problem with this generalization is that you could then argue that anything that makes people unhealthy will lead to negative consequences and therefore is a moot point.
However, the point is valid since the level of impact is also a social dynamic, which can have more of an impact that other unhealthy things in someones life.
For example, if someone were to only interact with people online rather than in real life, they will see how easy it is to use crude and vulgar language without any real consequence other than what they choose to feel about it. So from there they learn something bad they would not necessarily do in real life. In real life people do not have to chance to act so negatively so easily. The problem here is that this negative behavior has a psychological affect, and is social dynamic of unhealthy.
In such a negative social dynamic of treating people so badly, they learn people are not worth caring about, and become desensitized, which is a very normal affect by just watching the news.
However this is desensitization on how to perceive humans by interacting with them, which is different than watching a tragedy where even the journalist/reporter will show the proper emotions.
Anyone that develops their personality around this kind of perception will not have a positive outlook on humanity and will be more depressed in their way of thiking.
And in philosophy they like to argue for example, in general, what we think, despite reality, we might act out in irrationality. So that means a person who is 'brainwashed' by the online trolls, will have a negative idea of people, and in some bad moment in their life will act out in extreme irrationality.
Now take this negative social dynamic, and negative perception and have a populaiton of billions, and to believe this wont increase negative behavior is just a flat out lie.
I can agree however, single player games do not ahve the same affect, and that is what the pro game agurment is really talking about, but others are more likely talking about the online aspect of trolling and harassment which is part of 'gaming' (unfortunately) as well.
Write bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble
I am not talking about this specific incident, purely the media froth around it and the fact it is harder to determine what the truth is and what should be done when there is so much froth. Our media actual is often detrimental to us making calm, collected decisions.
1. Pharma
2. Politicians
Games? Laughable.
No fate but what we make, so make me a ham sandwich please.
Banning weapons, whether its firearms or knives, does not prevent acts of violence, what it does, is make it harder for people to defend themselves, it leaves the most vulnerable without protection of any kind and that usually means women.
Could it be that the difference is that in Europe they don’t sell automatic guns at the mall?
I don’t know what will it take for Americans to understand that automatic weapons, in particular rifles are made for wars, not for civilians consumption.
Why do you need an M16 for personal defence?
What kind of scenario requires the use of an automatic rifle in a civilian environment?
I really don’t get it.
Trevor on Comedy center also says 98% of gun owner want tougher back ground check. I'm not sure how accurate that poll is.
I dont' know why so many Americans want guns.
but almost none of these mass shootings are with automatic weapons by default, it's actually my understanding that you need specific licenses to get bigger caliber / automatic weapons.
AR15 is not an automatic weapon by default, they can mod them to be automatic, i think there is actually videos on youtube of how to do this, or you can get like bump stock etc... but an off the shelf AR15 isn't automatic.
i don't even think civillians can buy M16s just off the shelf in the USA, maybe in some states not 100% sure
https://www.oldglorygunsandammo.com/nfa-class-iii-weapons/
here we go class III weapons, need a special license that takes months and a lot of work to aquire if you get approved..
it should also be noted that an M161A retails for over $20,000 so i'm pretty sure teenage school shooters aren't gonna be rocking these out
it's not even something that would fix in the next 5 years if measures were put into place, with 80% of the worlds weapons being manufactured in the USA and how many are already out on the streets or in peoples homes, it could take 10 / 15 / 20 years to really clean everything up and start seeing the benefits, but the longer you take to action the harder and longer it's gonna be to clean it all up.
So "making it harder for people to defend themselves" is really not going to change much when people are unable to defend themselves (for a wide variety of reasons*) under the current situation anyways.
*It's not easy to defend yourself when you first have to first realize there's a shooting going on, identify the shooter, aim at the shooter while there are lots of people who are either in the way or will be hit if you miss (or even if you don't miss if the bullet penetrates through the shooter) and bring yourself to be able to kill someone likely for the first time, all within the span of a five minute time limit tops. I recall another situation where a bystander had a gun but he couldn't pull the trigger because he wasn't sure if the guy that just shot up everyone was the shooter, due to the shooter shooting in a crowd and thus being covered up by lots of people.
In my opinion these tragedy's are being caused/driven by a multitude of things and i do in fact think that desensitization plays a small part in it but its not just from the video games its also from social media gore video's and such. Throw in a MainStream Media that loves to whip everyone into a frenzy and promote fear,division & anger +The Political climate we live, the verbal diarrhea from anonymous message boards on both political spectrum's and then a very weak, disturbed mentally fragile person.
I think politicians and MSM are looking for a quick fix answer. The Right blames Mental health & videogames, The left blames Guns & Trump, Media outlets blame Racism and message boards. They all might very well in fact be right but I think the one thing they miss is themselves (politicians & MSM), The toxicity and negativity they constantly push, 24/7, is not healthy
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