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Kasz216 on 04 February 2013
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chris_wing said:
Kasz216 said:
chris_wing said:
Kasz216 said:

All available credible science shows that banning guns will accomplish nothing, and in fact likely makes the problem worse.

So your own disbelief mostly seems to stem from your lack of researching and ignorance regarding the topic.

You'd find more scientific evidence to suggest banning videogames then you would guns.

It's the culture of glamorizing guns through movies, tv & yes games.  The difference with games is that you take an active role.


Maybe. Only issue i have with that is that the US exports it's culture pretty much everywhere so you'd expect there to be more of a crossover effect.

Like a Prince concert, it's not the same unless you're actually there. ;)

IDK, I hate singling out games, but the active role and habitualized shooting of people is something movies & TV don't provide.  This doesn't explain why the US has more violence then, say, Canada, but I already showed through MATH that it's not just because the US has more guns.  And it's not just games ether, it's something deeper in the US culture.


I'd base it on poverty, education and a lack of trust in the police.   As was shown in  a number of the other gun control threads... US violence levels and gun violence levels are right in the middle of average of the OCED.... when it's the rates for white people.   All of our "crime boom" appears to be in minorities, specifically African Americans and Hispanic people.

When you look at the most likely reasons for that, poverty, education levels and just in general a feeling that they can't count on the police to give them a fair shake seem to be the most likely cause.  

Fix Education by dealing with it sensibly so schools have to compete with each other to survive, and work on rehabilitating the police image in a number of the worst areas in the US and I think you'd go a long way to solving the problem.