SlayerRondo said:
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. |
Criminals don't buy guns legally anyway, and the US has a terrible history in relation to bans in general. Just look at when we banned alcohol back in the day, and our current 'war on drugs', neither ban resulted in less access to the banned items for criminals, and both led to the proliferation of crime and violence. Banning guns in a country with massive shorelines and easy smuggling paths at the borders would be disasterous, as criminals would still have easy access to illegal guns, while normal (law abiding) citizens would no longer have the ability to defend themselves.