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Are you done preaching to the choir?

Yes, they're also responsible for the Holocaust, fot the Chernobyl reactor explsion, and for the extinction of the dinosaurs.........
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America should follow New Zealand paying people to sell their guns but they are too ignorant. They are really blind to the truth in my eyes. In The Netherlands I can only recall one mass shooting that resulted in 6 deaths, and then you wonder why. Well its because we don't play video games. No ofcourse not, its just really hard to get a firearm here. The solution is easy to think of, its just really hard to get the Americans to see it :(

Video games don't kill people, people do 👀

That being said, I'm a bit shocked by the "fun-ization" of violence is some video games. I mean, simply violent games like Postal 2, Call of Duty, Wolfenstein Enemy Territory, Far Cry, etc are fine. But games like Fortnite or Overwatch, with people dancing, singing and putting on fancy clothes (when they're not rather half-naked) as if it was CareBear land while at the same time murdering people that are kindly asked to remain polite and smiley about being murdered... that's sick.
Still not responsible for mass shootings, but contributing to blurring some ethical lines. Although one might argue such games are able to be successful precisely because ethical lines are already blurry in the first place.

lol, no way Jose!

is Trump fault...

I think Rick and Morty are to blame ;/

They always blame the games, let's grant that hypothesis as true.

As a child I played a lot of battleship, maybe I'm inclined to take a frigate and start shooting at other ships, but I can't do it because it's not easy to buy one.

I think it's the same with guns, crazy people are everywhere, but the most important factor is the easy access to weapons, i mean, where I live gun shops are like a mini bunker and they are also scarce, imagine my surprise when I found a weapons hall in a common store on my trip to USA.

I believe that when politicians begin to realize the amount of money that videogames move (and the slice they could get), they will change the approach and start attacking another less lucrative sector for them.

PD: I also think nerf guns are more dangerous, because they desensitize much more than a control.

And now the orange imbecile is trying that blame game along with mental illness for gun shootings.

Since he took office there have been more mass shootings reported than there were in the past 25 years. I swear.

So if mental illness are the cause of shootings, what's his excuse for his not knowing how to run the country?

I make a distinction between responsible and enabling. Both gun availability and video game violence can prove to be enabling for a person already predisposed to mass murder. In their eyes, both are part and parcel of the same culture of violence. I doubt that the elimination of one or the other or both will solve the problem, which, in the US, goes deeper and is more complex than a quick fix of controlling what people are allowed to see or what they are allowed to own can hope to address. Our politicians continue to kick these political footballs back and forth which only increases the divisiveness that fans the flames of extremist behavior, because it's easier than crossing the isle and doing something constructive and because it's in their own personal best interest, politically, to do so.

Guns and video games are definitely not the same thing. Some video games might trigger these acts on mentally unstable people but without guns nothing will happen...

[https://scontent.fotp1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/67556015_3094814547259069_4040029393202970624_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&_nc_oc=AQnHa9xf_x-5Lpcw1h1S9SDbMRQ_XxeNFttuEFlrhVIuctpqDhdPh2YRKQX491rBf0s&_nc_ht=scontent.fotp1-1.fna&oh=1b39f5a6c0e3bdb01f3ed965711ff2b0&oe=5DEA705A] (Games vs guns) ,,Video games don't kill people, people do'' splendid words, BRAVO!

Like you said, video games exist in every country but the mass domestic shootings not. WHY? 🤔

I blame rap music!

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No, video games arent responsible for mass shootings.
The larger culture including family life is more responsible for that.
Glorification of violence in society, media, and entertainment doesnt help.
Video Games are a form of entertainment, but research shows that there is no causational link between them and violent behavior.
Worst case, research shows they can increase aggression without causing violence.
Multiple things can be true at once.

America has horrible politicians in charge and possibly even worse people influencing them.

So while digging around Nier's and Drakengard's connections I found this article about the the creator's thinking on violence in videogames and the world. The line “you don’t have to be insane to kill someone. You just have to think you’re right.” really resonates with my thinking that people who choose to kill, whatever the context, are not mentally unstable. Rather they've been inspired and reinforced in their thinking to an extreme. And videogames are a minuscule factor in that inspiration compared to say...a world leader telling you you're on the right side.

to me, the States keep on being (with all the positive and negative nuances that one can imagine, I envy many many things to the USA) a completely different world if compared to Europe.. here in Italy we never had shootings in the last 30 years, and those before were only mafia-related shootings.. so here no one would even think about linking videogames to anything violent.. I mean, there can be individual psychological traits but that's totally another thing, if a single person can see worsened his mental health symptomps or whatever else due to intense violence videogames sessions or whatever.. and we have never seen anyways anything related to videogame end up in shooting sprees..
as DanoTheMan wrote "Many countries have video games like the U.S. but mass domestic shootings are not a problem". Italy and many other countries have NEVER even had a single mass shooting from the Commodore64 onwards..