Police Believe Sandy Hook Shooting Was An 'Emulation' Of Video Game Scenario

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happydolphin said:

hsrob said:

It would only be a strawman if I was genuinely claiming that is the position put forth which of course I wasn't ;) 

It troubles me though that games are being looked at as a cause by the police when logic dictates that even if they are 'proven' to be part of the problem here they are clearly not the main issue.  Games are ubiquitous in the developed world, mass shootings and school shootings are not.

Trying to finger games seems at best to be oversimplifying an issue that simply isn't simply, and at worst, blatent scapegoating.

Neither approach can possibly lead to a solution that will decrease the number of innocent people being killed by gun (or any other kind of) violence.  I have no prejudice in how that solution is arrived at, if it takes more guns, so be it. However, trying to prove a link, after-the-fact, if that is one's intention, will inevitably lead to proof in the positive but not necessarily the correct conclusion.

You know, the problem with violence as a diet for society is that, even if guns were removed from the equation, the more unstable would have more inspiration on other means to wreak havoc by using knives, household bombs, and any other tool they could devise for their mischeavous desires.

The problem with violence as a diet is that it feeds the madman, whereas guns could be eliminated as a tool, violence is the root.

You're argument would be more convincing if the evidence from other nation' around the world did not tear down your argument.

The best example of a nation that has banned gun's while similarly experiencing the boon in violent video game's would be Australia.

After the port Arthur masacre of 1996 gun's were either banned of very heavily regulated (in the case of hunting rifle) the number of death's buy gunshot has declined over 50% despite the coming prevalence of violent video game's.

A knife is not nearly effetive enough for someone to go on a killing spree like Sandy Hook and bomb's are complex, dangerous to the maker and not the kind of thing a mentaly inept person can put together. 

And for the record gun's DO lead to people who use them becoming more violent people from a mental standpoint.

And yes i think that if you're child is mentaly unwell you should probably take the violent media (not just video game's) away from them. But given how old he was and how easy it is to use the internet it lekely would have made little to no difference.

Regulating gun's is far more easy to do than digital media.