All the games in Donald Trump’s ‘violence in video games’ supercut

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Hiku said:

CrazyGamer2017 said:
Gotta love how in America the solution to real life violence and real life guns that are the actual tools for violence is to try to ban imaginary violence and video games.

Of course this doesn't take into account what type of video games are sold, but we have so many modern studies on the subject now that agree that there's no correlation between violent video games and the incentive to commit these type of violent acts.

RolStoppable said:

Recently I've come across a snippet of a speech of a high representative of the NRA and it all became clear to me. The crucial part in the condensed statement was that God gave the American people the right to bear arms and that's why this right must be protected at all costs. It's seemingly always religion that is at the core of every crazy ideology.

Around two weeks ago, there was a church in the US that held a ceremony for AR-15's. Because "weapons are a gift from God."






Maybe, just maybe, they should look less at teenagers playing PUBG, and more at people's unhealthy relationship with gun worship in the country.

A couple of counterpoints to your thoughts and the things you posted.

I don't know who Ed is, or don't really care.  But, it is typical of people to pull a stat that they want and portray it for their point.  In this case, the data shows something completely different to me.  Sure they spend more on video games in Japan per person.  But what wasn't in that tidbit is what those dollars are spent on as far as gaming genres.  I admit I don't have some link to prove my point, other than watching all of the sales charts in the US vs other countries.  There is a seemingly obvious tilt towards shooters and Mature titles in the US based on sales VS other locations.  So, comping death rates in one society to another buying completely different games is in itself kind of a bad comparison.

Besides the Ed comment, you posted the pics of some people attending church with guns.  Of course, that one church filled with people trying to make some political statement represents the whole of the US doesn't it?  I live in the middle of the US and am in an area where people hunt and fish alot.  But, the people who actually do that are still only a small percentage of the population even here.  I don't own any guns, or even think about it.