So gun violence is a disease now?JonB said:"I will direct the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to go ahead and study the best ways to reduce [gun violence]."
Because nothing solves gun violence like more gun violence!
So gun violence is a disease now?JonB said:"I will direct the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to go ahead and study the best ways to reduce [gun violence]."
Holy shit a (loose) Republican on here! Finally, maybe there will be a little less overall bias on these forums.Blindrooster said:snip
Good leadership skills were revoked as a prerequisite for presidency a long time ago. Now you just have to act like a leader while your party pulls your strings. This isn't just Obama. This has been a problem since before I was born.DVS BSTrD said:-Snip-
I'm a moderate who leans more towards the Libertarian party than anyone else (though I am definitely not in 100% alignment with them).scorptatious said:Sure have been a lot of stuff about guns lately. I hope this whole thing blows over soon.Holy shit a (loose) Republican on here! Finally, maybe there will be a little less overall bias on these forums.Blindrooster said:snip
...or even if it does turn out that video games can or do contribute to real violence (even just in some subset of the population), we're all better off understanding how and why that is the case.Cade Aponte said:Science has repeatedly shown that video games do not contribute in any non-trivial way to real violence. This shouldn't worry any gamer.
I'd imagine there would be, but I haven't seen very many people that are as vocal about it.Fappy said:I'm a moderate who leans more towards the Libertarian party than anyone else (though I am definitely not in 100% alignment with them).scorptatious said:Sure have been a lot of stuff about guns lately. I hope this whole thing blows over soon.Holy shit a (loose) Republican on here! Finally, maybe there will be a little less overall bias on these forums.Blindrooster said:snip
There is more variety around here than you would think! ;P
See you've got it right! People are too 100% agree with everything their party does and defend it to the death, and, honestly, they all make mistakes. It's not all black and white.Fappy said:I'm a moderate who leans more towards the Libertarian party than anyone else (though I am definitely not in 100% alignment with them).scorptatious said:Sure have been a lot of stuff about guns lately. I hope this whole thing blows over soon.Holy shit a (loose) Republican on here! Finally, maybe there will be a little less overall bias on these forums.Blindrooster said:snip
There is more variety around here than you would think! ;P
This is my contention as well.j-e-f-f-e-r-s said:If you want research done without bias or preconception, tax-funded research is the way to go. If you want proof- every single government funded study on drugs done here in the UK has resulted in the scientists involved arguing that some, if not most, drugs need to be legalised. The government subsequently chose to ignore them, but that's neither here nor there. Tax funded research has accountability.Fappy said:I have absolutely no problem with people doing legitimate research regarding video games and it's affect on mental health, but I don't feel it should be funded by federal taxes and I am disappointed that it's existence is basically being fueled by blind fear.
You know who funds most private research? Companies with an axe to grind, or an agenda to promote. Climate change research done by oil companies. The effects of medication research done by pharmaceutical companies. The research done thus far on vidoegames has largely been done by private companies, and therefore it has mostly been highly suspect as a result. If a group with a name like Mums For A More Moral America (or similar vapid title) come out with a study on games and violence, the bias is already there for all to see. A tax-funded study at least has the chance for accountability, for even-handedness, and therefore for actual conclusive results.
And it's not as if research is all that expensive. America is currently still fighting two land-wars in the Middle East, and trading with most of the known world. You can afford one scientific study.
Legitimate question: What epidemic of violence?"We don't benefit from ignorance. We don't benefit from not knowing the science on this epidemic of violence."