Posted on 12/18/2012 5:33:57 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Your points definitely hit the mark (no pun intended). The right to bare arms IMHO is God given. The right to protect oneself and his/her family also God given. If the government has the ability to “test” someone prior to “allowing” them to have a firearm.. imagine what can exclude a person? Church going Christian? No.. you can’t have one. Conservative political, social, economic views? No, you can’t have a gun. Have children? No, you can’t have a gun.
I only mention this because look around the world at what cultures are most violent. African and Hispanic. Mexico, Countries within Africa etc.
http://www.globalpost.com/photo-galleries/5722155/top-10-most-dangerous-cities-the-world
So the people here who are descendants of these cultures are violent here in the US as well. Not shocking especially since we are forbidden to assimilate them into western culture on which the US was built, and assimilate them into the western value system. As this is seen as being bigoted or whatever.
Next time some liberal rambles about how Germany, France or Canada keep this in mind. Combined the black and Hispanic population in the USA is what, 25 percent?
>>So what is your solution?? You think some of these games should be banned???<<
Parental involvement might be novel.
If your child has a personality disorder and you do not completely secure your firearms, YOU quite likely will have a problem.
On the other hand, not listening to UpChuck Todd and the libtards for 3 hours a night is probably better for the “child’s” mental health.
I have never killed any real Indians or a Japs. I don't hate or have any animus toward either. How can this be? I have personally killed thousands of plastic and imaginary Indians and Japs. (Union soldiers too).
Why haven't I killed any six year olds?
I went to the Redbox last night and noticed how many games they are now renting. All of these games had a common theme how to kill people in different ways. Does anyone think this is good for the mind and soul? Spending hour after hour in a virtual world killing and maiming...anyone?
Probably not. I’ve played a great deal of 1st person shooters before, and personally I found them both boring and offputting. Much neater games out there.
No accounting for taste, though.
No it isn't, and any good parent shouldn't let their children play them, (unfortunately we know that their are many if not a majority of parents that just don't care). The point I was making was the people talking about banning these games are just spitting in the wind, because the Supreme Court has already sunk that ship. You manage to get a ban passed in you town or state, it will be struck down by a federal court so fast it will make your head spin.
Got a graph for that?
If a kid was playing Halo three hours a night, I’d buy them a paintball gun and encourage him and his online Halo buddies to go run in the fresh air, raise a sweat and learn some real tactics, as well. Plus be reminded in a nominal way that getting hit is a painful experience.
“I’d say SSRI’s are a much bigger problem. My boys have always played a lot of Halo and Call of Duty and are hardly anti-social.
Not a chance in a million I’d allow them to be placed on a psychotropic.”
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I agree. My 17 year-old son plays those games all of the time and I guarantee he’d never gun down actual people. And he has a lot of friends.
Boys and young men are attracted to those games; it must be something primeval—the thrill of the hunt, something that is lost today.
“The Wonder of Boys” is a great book that I read when Chris, my son, was a toddler. Boys need their fathers, or a father figure (who was apparently missing in this case); they also need challenges, physical or otherwise.
And you’re right—IIRC, the Columbine shooters, at least one of them, were on anti-depressants.
I haven’t played in years but really enjoyed Tom Clancy’s “Splinter Cell” when it came out about 10 years ago.
Yes, you shot people in the game but the focus was more on spy tactics and skill rather than killing. It had no gore except for the occasional pink mist.
I’m not saying they should be banned but people that play some of the mindless HD killing games for hours and hours do worry me
Paintball! That is an awesome idea. Fresh air, exercise. We’re probably going to get some snow, but I will look into this. It could be a really fun activity during Christmas break, if it’s open.
Anyone who’s ever watched ‘The King of Queens’—it’s a pretty funny episode when Carrie, Doug, Deacon and Kelly go on a paintball outing. Save the fried chicken, Doug! LOL.
It's a stupid waste of time to debate something that is impossible.
Leaving aside the 1st Amendment issues, you can no more ban violent video games than you can ban porn. You're trying to ban electrons.
Gaming has moved from PCs to console gaming, and it would be possible to ban "violent" console games (lots of fun drawing the line, though - is a fighter flight sim OK, but a first person shooter not?).
However gaming would just move back to PCs. There are lots of first-person shooter PC games and lots of people out there skilled at "modding" (creating your own game/levels based on a given set of software.)
You'll just have people in Belarus cranking out first person shooters and selling/giving away them on the internet, with no conceivable way of stopping it.
And those games will probably end up more violent in terms of content than the console games today.
And if you kid has an Obama bumper sticker on his bicycle you’ll know he has a problem.
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