bloody bastards

assholes cause violence.

This is the same shit republicans tried to pull after the sandy hook event. UK has conservatives too. It's most likely more old people that vote. Take the pull with people under 30, bet that pull changes drastically. Old votes hold us back.

that will be all I debate politics on this site. There is clear bias on this site.

Anyone who doesn't think violent videogames, (and all media for that matter) don't contribute to violent crimes being committed are simply fooling themselves because it says something bad about their favorite hobby.

Living in a culture of violence will lead to more violence. Clearly.

Of course that doesn't mean that anything should actually be done to change this, since after all, people are the ones who make their choices at the end of the day.

There is so much wrong with that I don't know where to begin. 

By the way you lost it when you said Republicans tried to pull that as an exclusive and you doubled down when you said 'Old votes hold us back'.

Though I share your disgust with anyone trying to find an easy answer as a scape goat to explain a mental health issue, you might want to take a second look at the bigger picture of who's trying to limit video game purchases and censor content. It's not so left and right as you might think. 

Examples.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/04/dianne-feinstein-video-games_n_3016703.html

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/277781-dem-bill-would-ban-sale-of-violent-games-to-minors

The Anti-videogame lobby is basically "Everyone in congress" but they can't get past that tricky first ammendment.

The NRA actually did have a point there too.  Videogames and in general our culture of violence has a LOT more to do with violent acts than guns.

Both are very negligable, the big difference is that we aren't on a guns forum.

common knowledge and conventional wisdom. both oxymorons. violence is caused by one thing. a lack of frontal lobe.

In the UK ask if violence is caused by American Rapper gun/gang culture and you'll get a higher result.

id say they might not be far off but its not the violent games that cause the anger, its the games people are passionately involved in like Fifa. Growing up i saw many friends rage playing that, but not really any if the subject matter was very abstract from anything in there real life.

The NRA does not have a point actually. The top ten nations in terms of violent video game consumption contain nine of the least violent nations. America is the exeption to this and guns are the outlier along with an extreme crime rate.

Also using guns has been shown to increase violent tendancies temporarily just like video games but to a greater degree, not to metion the increased ability they provide for these outliing killers.

The causal link between violent media and actual crimes does not exist like the clear link between guns availibility and mass shootings.

But I still oppose gun restriction along side video games restriction as I believe freedom comes at a cost we should be willing to pay. It is just the absurdity of people who support the second amendment comming after thoose who support the first.