jlmurph2 said:
Insidb said:
Well, if one buys into the videogames lead to mass shootings in America, the next logical step would be to tie to the most used console and the console most used to play FPS games in the US. That console would be the XBox (X360 and X1), so it would have less to do with a peripheral and more to do with the offered content. In that case, it's a lot easier to say so-and-so shot up such-and-such and played this on that, as opposed to these terrorists may have used this to communicate about that. The former is a much more easily established and concrete link.
I think, in both cases, it's fairly absurd to overlook the very obvious and very real social problems that lead to each of these forms of terrorism. These sensational types of articles cast the gaming society in a very poor light, but, to quote Nightcrawler, "If it bleeds, it leads."
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No, the next logical step should be "What games are these people playing". Which is what happens. It happens all the time with GTA, COD and I'm sure it even happened once with Mass Effect 3. It doesn't matter what console they're buying it on if the games aren't exclusive to that platform.
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If the terrorists used a Samsung phone to communicate I highly doubt this guy would make an article titled "Samsung phone used by terrorists".
Games console would suffice for this story. The brand doesn't matter especially not in the title.
Off topic but regarding the shooting. they're all mentally ill people who are angry at the world for different reasons. They're equally bad terrorists.
