NRA Likens Videogames to "the Filthiest Form of Pornography"

[Loop Stricken]

The NRA would appear to be very silly people indeed.
...but then I'm English and, as far as I've been told, am utterly unqualified to talk about guns whatsoever.

it does however make you fully qualified to talk about the merits of not owning guns.

Well, I can certainly attest to not having been shot to death, as well as not knowing anyone who's been shot to death.
Or indeed, at all.

This, in a place where my own dear mother could tell me who to talk to in a pub, if I so wanted to obtain one. A gun that is, not a getting shot to death.

 

[RatRace123]

Really? You'd think the NRA would be experienced in having people place unnecessary blame on the object of your pastime. Oh well, guess not. Better blame video games!

 

[Alleged_Alec]

"And here's another dirty little truth that the media try their best to conceal: There exists in this country a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells, and sows, violence against its own people,"

Hrm.. The gun industry?

 

[DataSnake]

This analogy doesn't really hold up. It's a lot easier to brew moonshine or grow weed than it is to make your own AR-15.

Meth crack or cocaine then.
Or ivory. There aren't many elephants in the U.S..

Meth [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_meth_lab] and crack [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crack_cocaine#Chemistry] are notoriously easy to make yourself, and to make cocaine [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine#Production] from coca plants all you'd need are a high school level understanding of chemistry and some raw materials available at any hardware store. By contrast, a homemade firearm [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvised_firearm] is nowhere near as deadly as an AR-15 or M4; the only one even remotely comparable is the WWII-era STEN [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sten], which still required welding equipment and needed professionally-made ammo (which in turn would require injection molding tools), as well as suffering from poor accuracy, massive recoil and frequent jamming.

 

[DataSnake]

Have you seen how our federal government acts? Any wonder why some of us take that 2nd amendment right fairly seriously.

You do know the government has tanks, missiles and flying killbots, right?

 

[Formica Archonis]

Is there an organization that supports the Second Amendment that hasn't gone full retard? I'd like to join them.

Pink Pistols, though it's oriented towards self defense and ownership by LGBT's.

Better than nothing, I suppose. Little more focused than I was aiming for (HA!) but hey, any non-crazy port in a storm.

 

[karamazovnew]

What the F-ing frack?! I don't know who at NRA thought this was a good idea, but he must've (not should've) shot his brains out by mistake before making such an idiotic comment. If this came from ANYBODY else, I would've taken a liberal point of view and say "well, violence in games could lead to if such or such and such...". But coming from the NRA, this sounds as the biggest bullshit I've ever heard. Look you NRA imbeciles, we kill pixels with pixel rounds. EVEN if some wacko thinks that CoD is the will of God and he should kill somebody, he couldn't do it if he didn't have a real assault rifle FROM YOU. I've played the worst of the worst and enjoyed it too. But since I've never had a gun in my hands, the thought of doing that shit for real has never crossed my mind.

 

[Woodsey]

There's a joke about their highly prolific love of extremely phallic objects in here somewhere.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I would liken Nathan Drake to Buck Angel...Other than that I would need some time to find equivalents for 2 girls 1 cup, 4 girls finger-painting, the great american challenge, etc.

Seriously though, no. Many video game players/ owners don't even own guns and want nothing to do with weaponry of any kind unless it utilizes lasers or giant keys. This doesn't matter though, it's not like they can get a government ban on violent games. Nor can they prove a true link between gaming and violent people. Crazy is always Crazy, Violent is always Violent no matter what the stimuli. Hell, you could probably prove the shooter was a fan of Barney as a 3 year old...why not try banning Barney?

 

[Schadrach]

Remember guys, gun ownership is a "right"

I'm not entirely sure how this even gets to this stage. You can't shoot someone without a gun. How difficult is that? Most countries have the hang of it by now, and the ones that don't have shootings instead.

First off, yes, it is a right, and it "shall not be infringed". Right there in the Constitution.

This is actually one of those things that pisses me off about our dominant political parties in the US -- you effectively have to choose which guaranteed Constitutional rights you care about, because only one party cares about the 2nd, and it largely doesn't care for the 1st.

While you can't shoot someone without a gun, you can certainly stab, bludgeon, or blow them up without one, all using things that would be basically impossible to ban and requiring only slightly more planning.

Says the gun nuts who actually had a hand in causing this tragedy while video games are 100% not responsible. I don't think "ban teh gunz" will solve the problem of shootings by any means, but on the other side of the coin, it doesn't help that clowns like these try to keep it so you can walk into Walmart and get guns in the same building where you do your Christmas shopping for your kids. (And yeah, I'm sure Walmart follows all the laws and whatnot, but come on why does Walmart have a gun section of all things?)

Because nothing places a restriction on selling toys, clothing, food, electronics and guns in the same building, and a giant megacorp like WalMart sees the sales generated by selling guns as greater than the sales lost by doing so? A big grassroots push to boycott WalMart specifically because they sell guns with a bit of media attention might make them change their mind on that front, but ultimately it all comes down to money -- people who want to buy guns & ammo (especially ammo) at Wal Mart and people who are neutral on the matter generate more money than people who refuse to shop there because they sell guns & ammo cost them.

 

[Belated]

Honestly I used to be semi-supportive of the NRA. Sure they're right wing, but guns happen to be the only issue I lean towards the right with. So I always thought I could count on the NRA to protect my right to own a gun. Always count on them to make sure that I could adequately protect myself, so when somebody attempts to commit a violent crime against me, I don't have to just LET them.

But just when I thought of the NRA as a friend, now they're coming after me? Screw you NRA. It didn't matter to me that most of your supporters are right wing idiots who hold the wrong opinions about every other topic, as long as you were protecting my gun interests. Why'd you have to go and ruin things between us? Now it's personal.

 

[DoomyMcDoom]

I personally believe that the biggest problem is neither video games(obviously), nor availability of guns, but in the fact that there's no damn system in place to correctly diagnose and deal with severe mental health issues, and the fact that the country is so shittily managed as a whole, I mean look at how their economy is doing compared to Canada right now, and guess what, we have a decent health care system eh.

Think about it, do you want crazy nutters to kill people and get all out of control? If your answer is no, then maybe it'd be a good idea to put a system in place for the propper institutionalization and treatment of people with the problems that are at the root of a lot of these things... Cuz right now, in most cases, those with problems like that are left to wander in society degrading constantly, until they commit a crime, and are locked away in PRISON, so until one of em goes straight up mental, they're out there, with access to firearms, and no medication like walking bombs waitin to be set off.

Just makes sense to deal with that kinda thing is all.

 

[TIMESWORDSMAN]

Oooooohhh I'm so excited!
Usually when someone accuses video games of causing problems, I read it and say: "These people are wrong, but there is some truth in their claims." I usually have to consider both sides of an argument wholly.
But this time, finally, there is a slam of against video games that had no high ground, and was simply an illogical and antiquated diversion.
I can actually feel righteously indignant towards something without affecting my Paragon rating. This is a rare treat for me.

 

[Techno Destructo]

You can't compare Splatterhouse to porno, because I can buy Splatterhouse at Walmart, despite the fact that I can find softcore photos in the game as unlockables. . .
I'm just wondering what they're suggesting, because they're giving too much credit to these fantastically "Responsible Gun Owners" that I have only heard so much about. Not everyone is as sane as this imaginary man, because it's simply math: People who have guns in their household are more likely to be the victims of a shooting than in households that don't have guns. . . so shut up, NRA, the gunfire is coming from inside the house.

 

[aattss]

I don't think banning guns is good, but I think that banning freedom of speech is a horrible idea.