House minority leader trying to blame video games for mass shootings. Update: Walmart pulls violent video game ads for 2 weeks

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Azzanation said:

Conina said:

Why? The USA also has a much bigger police force.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_number_of_police_officers

Australia has 202 police officers each 100,000 people. Canada has 188 police officers each 100,000 people. The USA has 284 police officers each 100,000 people.

Pemalite said:

Gun Control doesn't mean the banning of guns.

Your argument is a bit of a fallacy anyway... It's like saying unless we can stop all drug use, we shouldn't have any drug-related laws.

Doesn't happen.

And yet in the US... Those same individuals can walk around carrying a gun. - Do you know what Gun Control even does? It prevents those individuals from easily accruing such weapons.

False. You can extrapolate data mathematically to make a comparison of countries with 40~ million people to a country with 400~ million people accurately... Which is partly why terms like "Per Capita" actually exist.

To both of you - What does having a bigger police force got to do with what's happening here? The police force can only control the basics of crime and sort out aftermaths of situations etc. Having more doesn't change the fact that a country with 400m people will have more idiots, more mental and demented people, more crazies.. put it simpler, more bad guys. Yes Cops will help in some ways but its not going to solve everything which is why these things still happen as you just proven to yourselves that the US has a decent size police force. 

The issue with the US stems a lot deeper than placing Stricker laws on owning guns. We have rules in place on getting a car licences and the road toll is still one of the highest death casualties in the world. So yes the car argument makes just as much sense. If we want to ban guns because of these killings, than might as well ban cars. That's how stupid it is to blame items and not the individuals. 

The US has a massive black market issue, it also has a education issue and a massive underground issue, and if you guys think that by adding more laws on guns is going to stop these shootings than I am only going to disagree. Because these killers can easily get high powered weaponry off the black market so these shootings will only still take place just instead, no one else can have a gun to defend themselves for when it happens.

Humans need to stop blaming things on other things and instead find the real issues behind them. Guns and Video games are not why these shootings happen. Evil people will be evil people regardless if they have guns or not.

Just to drop most of my post and clarify

USA doesn't have 400m people in it, it's 320m

EU has more people @513m

Less cops in the EU per person

Less shootings in the EU per person

More people doesn't mean more shootings in the EU, Less cops per person doesn't lead to more shootings in the EU.

As for " Guns and Video games are not why these shootings happen." in a literal sense, this sentence is literally 50% perfectly correct, and 50% incorrect. Taking away a game doesn't alter the sentence, taking away the gun does, simple as that.