im laughing very hard now. not because they are stupid, not because this will never reach anything important, but because it just alienated the majority of the world, and maybe, just maybe, this will be enough to push it out of the lead.
NRA Likens Videogames to "the Filthiest Form of Pornography"
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I found the "guns don't kill people, people do" motto was hugely tongue-in-cheek, but a very good one if you're standing on the side of NRA.
Adding the "... and also video games" corollary is too much though. If you follow that logic, 100 years from now, there will be 50 reasons as to why people kill other people with guns, and the fact that guns are too easily made available still won't be one of the reasons.
Adding the "... and also video games" corollary is too much though. If you follow that logic, 100 years from now, there will be 50 reasons as to why people kill other people with guns, and the fact that guns are too easily made available still won't be one of the reasons.
You mean like in Irak and Afghanistan?MrPeanut said:
The US military (and most of NATO) are only now starting to move from the old doctrine (war against Russia, basically). They are not really good at asymmetrical conflicts. A "rebellion" is exactly that. The rebels would use guerrilla warfare, made easier in the US by the already huge amount of available guns and ammunition. Also there are a lot of veterans in the US, who might pick the rebels side and train more people.
This is why Special Ops are being used more and more - you need to target specific assets, not take down whole cities with a brigade of tanks. That part is easy.
Any army trying to occupy the US, including USA's own army, would have a Bad Time only because of all the resistance it would meet.
Is it just me or does anyone else get the impression that he doesn't really believe that and is just shifting media focus? "Shit, my gun organisation looks bad, I sure could use a distraction right about now: VIDYA GAYMES DID IT!"
America has had how many mass shootings this year compared to say Australia, the UK and Japan combined. Yet we get all these violent video games and movies, so I'm inclined to look at the one big difference in culture.
The NRA is panicking, and trying to deflect a review of gun policy. So they take a scaremongering moralistic approach.
What's more, they manage to demonise people with mental illness:
Really, they're just shooting themselves in the foot by showing everyone that they're irrational and not willing to compromise anything.
An armed police officer in every school? That's ridiculous, and would only further the police state. What next, a police officer in every street? And that's not too much of a slippery slope argument. THINK OF HOW MUCH SAFER THE CHILDREN WILL BE!!!
What's more, they manage to demonise people with mental illness:
Pathetic. Utterly pathetic.
Really, they're just shooting themselves in the foot by showing everyone that they're irrational and not willing to compromise anything.
An armed police officer in every school? That's ridiculous, and would only further the police state. What next, a police officer in every street? And that's not too much of a slippery slope argument. THINK OF HOW MUCH SAFER THE CHILDREN WILL BE!!!
I unno, I liked the remake...Emiscary said:
OT: I must admit, that's an interesting choice of words. I wouldn't have used it, seeing as it is kind of wrong, but still, got my attention.
At this point, I stopped caring what the NRA says. I'm pretty sure I gave up giving a toss at the point they said, "Okay, Obama didn't do anything to try and take our guns in his first turn... But that's just because he wanted to lull us into a false sense of security so he could more easily take it in his second term!!!"
It's like how I officially stopped giving Fox News any attention when Bill O'Riley defended the McCarthy Trials.
Well, the fact that America ranks better only in comparison with areas with raging civil and drug wars is very telling. And very sad.Ed130 said:
As for the NRA, I don't understand them at all. Virtual guns are bad, but real guns are not? What kind of logic is that?