Fox News Host Wants to Monitor Your Gaming Habits

[Deathfish15]

A black bird shits on my car at least 3 times weekly. But I'm going to associate that with a linked conspiracy of carwash owners in the area, who benefit off of the bird's conjoined plot to make my car always needing cleaned.

^That's not crazy. That's the exact same line of though these Fox News people use to link video games to mass slayings.





But what's worse about this is that Fox News is trying to use Videogames as a scapegoat to direct against Gun Control. See, they're some kind of wing that's bent back being the chicken's head, not left, not right...but just....bent, twisted if you will. Now, these are also Republicans [*spit*]. They love their guns and old fashioned interpretation of the Constitution, but hate things that change. This change is the evolutional push towards interactive media -video games/internet- and away from traditional media such as newspapers, news shows, television, and even overpriced movies.


Bottom line of the situation is not videogames, nor is it guns. It was the system. Every news report has dug up that this guy was reported for previous cases of "hearing voices" and discharging a firearm improperly. As a military member entrusted with national security and use of advanced weaponry, these reports should have been fully investigated and acted upon. Instead, his superiors ignored the issue and let it escalate.

 

[Godhead]

*raises hand* Why are you asking for government intervention when you say you like small government?

 

[thirion1850]

Fox News said something retarded.

WELL STOP THE BLEEDIN' PRESSES!

 

[Strazdas]

I would like to monitor Elizabeths sleeping habits since she could be sleeping with a serial killer.
yes, this makes as much sense as what she said, but more perverted.

The registration and tracking of firearms sales? Absurd.

The registration and tracking of video games sales? Totally legit.

Only in America.

Where's the reddit up arrow when I need it?

But his post is already on the top!

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bravo, very well made post.

 

[Undomesticated Equine]

Played my first violent game at the age of 10 or less and dreamed about GTA III before i knew that such thing could exist. Played whole lot of FPS and other violent games since then. My IRL bodycount so far 0. Although gun regulations are way stricter in my country than in USA so i guess by Fox News logic(TM) lack of guns prevented me from going on a killing. spree.

 

[Psychobabble]

The registration and tracking of firearms sales? Absurd.

The registration and tracking of video games sales? Totally legit.

Only in America.

Darn right. Time for these murder simulators to be put in their place. I mean after all if the government had known that guy had been playing CoD for 16 hours at a time they would have stepped in and done something because that would have raised a big red flag. There would have been none of this ambiguous shilly-shallying over long term unstable and violent behavior and more then one incident where he told police he was hearing voices through walls or someone was using a microwave device to keep him from sleeping.

 

[Caiphus]

I know this makes me a terrible person, but that woman is totally free to come around to my house and monitor me personally.

 

[Kennetic]

Time to get out the signs with "we want Gun Safety" written on them. US citizens, contact your congressmen about gun safety, and tell them that you want it.

Before someone ask:
1: Gun Safety is a rebranding of "Gun Control". It's the same, only much harder to attack.
2: This is relevant because it will make Fox News really, really mad if it passes.

Edit:
1: Fox, your source for them being "addicted" is Fox News.
2: I will blame the shooter for 10 bullets, and the rest on US' stupid gun laws.

Yea no. I like my guns thank you very much. Why does it have to be one or the other? I like guns AND video games. How bout that the shooter was a fucking psycho who heard voices and all sorts of crazy stuff and that's the issue?

 

[KB13]

I've been playing Doom and its sequel's since I was at the lease six years old. Since I've become older I've upgraded my collection to games such as Fallout, L.A. Noire, and The Last of Us, never once have I had the urge to move to the desert and shoot giant bugs and shoot up turbo, drive horribly through the streets of L.A.and accuse people of crimes, or go backpacking across america with a twelve year old after handing her a shot gun to kill zombies with. Although moving to Mars to escape the stupidity that's happening here is sounding better as the years progress.

 

[Mylinkay Asdara]

Again, it's FOX, so duh.

Also - years and years ago it was "and they watched TV ALL the time - violent TV, horrible TV" and "and he liked that music, that horrible music" and... yes. This is going to happen with every new media ever and every new thing ever because the thing that doesn't change is that people look for anything and everything to blame that can be easily dressed-down and shunned rather than find a flaw in any system they cherish with the reverence of tradition.

 

[DrOswald]

I know that it is not perfect but I always get a great feeling of appreciation for the BBC when I read stuff like this. At least in england this carp is confined to newspapers so you know to avoid them, and nobody belives newspapers anyway. I would hate to live in a country where people have to listen to this crap.

My sympathy to all the American esacpists out their.

Its not actually that bad. You see, we also love BBC. I can't remember the last time anyone I know took an American news service seriously enough that they didn't check it against what the BBC was reporting.

 

[Something Amyss]

The registration and tracking of firearms sales? Absurd.

The registration and tracking of video games sales? Totally legit.

Only in America.

I was going to say that. It's amazing how we won't do anything about firearms because it will lead to tracking gun owners and that's bad, but tracking your email, social media, and video games?

Well, there's nothing wrong with that.

You are misreading it all. There is active tracking and registration of firearms in US.

And yet the pro-gun lobby is screaming about a dark dystopian future where this comes to pass.

You can see why they might be a touch confused.

Then again, our politicians are too stupid to know what's in the Constitution, so you can see why I'm not even a touch surprised.

 

[EstrogenicMuscle]

Fox News, ever fan of big government.

Unless "big government" means income taxes, then big government is evil and Obama is a socialist.
Hey conservatives, stop trying to push big government down my throat.

 

[DrOswald]

Time to get out the signs with "we want Gun Safety" written on them. US citizens, contact your congressmen about gun safety, and tell them that you want it.

Before someone ask:
1: Gun Safety is a rebranding of "Gun Control". It's the same, only much harder to attack.
2: This is relevant because it will make Fox News really, really mad if it passes.

Edit:
1: Fox, your source for them being "addicted" is Fox News.
2: I will blame the shooter for 10 bullets, and the rest on US' stupid gun laws.

But... he was using a shotgun. I mean, I assume you were talking about large magazines in rifles and the movement to ban magazines with greater than 10 rounds. But he was using a shotgun. In fact, US gun laws prevented him from actually acquiring a rifle.

Now, to be clear, I am not saying we do not need better gun laws. In fact I would count myself among gun control advocates. But we should at least try to effectively fact check. If we don't then it is so much easier to ignore the gun control movement as the ramblings of ignorant reactionaries who don't actually understand what is going on.

I mean, a man shoots up a navy yard with a shotgun and our reaction is "we need to ban high capacity rifle magazines." I wouldn't take us seriously, why should anyone else?

 

[EstrogenicMuscle]

Fox News Host Wants to Monitor Your Gaming Habits

Fox & Friends host Elizabeth Hasselbeck

Aaaand that was enough for me. Every time I see a quote of hers the quoter has to insist she's not on the parody side of Poe's Law.

Anyone whose broadcasting history highlights are The View and Fox News isn't worth my time.

First off, I love your Touhou yukkuri avatar.

And yeah, secondly, it's hard to really believe that people can say things like this with a straight face.
These people are basically going on the defensive of guns and bashing gun control, and then asking for video game control.

I can't see anything here other than neophobia and blind adherence to an ideology. Guns are old technology and part of the conservative/Republican agenda, so they love guns. But video games are what the kids under the age of 30 years old who vote Democrat have as a hobby, so of course they're evil.

I can't think of any other reason someone would say something so ridiculous aloud.

 

[Something Amyss]

Fox News, ever fan of big government.

Unless "big government" means income taxes, then big government is evil and Obama is a socialist.
Hey conservatives, stop trying to push big government down my throat.

Of course, it's totally not "big government" when they want it.

 

[Something Amyss]

In fact, US gun laws prevented him from actually acquiring a rifle.

One state's laws prevented him from it. Let's be clear here. If this were another state, the outcome would likely be a different one. And since mental health and a history of violence (including with firearms) aren't enough to preclude him, this is a pretty important deal here.

 

[Gorrath]

I find it hilarious that Fox News, long time advocates of smaller government and less intrusion into private lives, would even dare to suggest that the government track individual purchases of games. Federal, state, and local governments can't even track adopted children for crying out loud. How would they remain aware of millions of game purchases?

That's the thing though, much of the GOP has totally shifted its platform on this while maintaining that its still an important focus. We don't have a big government party and a small government party, we have two big government parties. The old GOP mantra of "Stay out of our personal business!" has become "Stay out of MY personal business, but pry into my neighbor's!" Fox news and much of the rest of the GOP have nothing to do with small government or less intrusion into private lives.

 

[Micalas]

Host Elizabeth Hasselbeck meanwhile suggested that perhaps the government should begin monitoring game purchases to help single out "people susceptible to playing videogames."

People susceptible to playing video games? You mean like everyone? Video games aren't like the flu when the elderly and children are more "susceptible." Video games are products, not airbourne illnesses.

This story proves one thing without doubt. Video games lead to rude behavior such as overstaying your welcome and causing polite people to feed you instead of asking you to leave.. With that said, I have a friend with an xbox and I'm STARVING. See ya!!

Yeah, I was a little perplexed about that. I'm a damn polite person, but when it's time for someone to get the hell out, it's time for them to get the hell out.

 

[DrOswald]

In fact, US gun laws prevented him from actually acquiring a rifle.

One state's laws prevented him from it. Let's be clear here. If this were another state, the outcome would likely be a different one. And since mental health and a history of violence (including with firearms) aren't enough to preclude him, this is a pretty important deal here.

I never said that we don't need better gun laws (in fact I said I was an advocate of gun control) and I do think that he was able to obtain the shotgun in this way is a big problem. In fact, this is a great place to start and is how we should be approaching this incident. But that is not what Goliath100 did. He jumped to a conclusion and used this incident to condemn laws related to high capacity rifle magazines when a rifle was not used.

My point was that if we misrepresent the facts of an incident to support our preconceived opinions then no one will take us seriously because they shouldn't. If we ignore the facts of an incident because we want to push our agenda then we are ignorant reactionaries who should be ignored. We become Fox News, just on the other side.