I find it amazing that Republicans still try to blame movies and video games for school shootings. Remind me again of how these people are the pro-freedom of speech side?
When they try to ban them, let me know.
The argument that troubled individuals engaging in simulated violence can lead to real life violence is plausible.
There is something to be said for the effect of a poor mental diet on one’s choices.
And yet many who “engage in simluated violence” are still mentally healthy. Not to mention people in other developed countries play the same games and watch the same movies, and yet they don’t have these problems to the degree that we do.
People used to say Harry Potter promoted witchcraft, and before that it was Dungeons and Dragons. Before people attacked video games and TV for the degradation of youth, it was comic books.
Are you going to say I have a propensity for violence in part because I have amassed a combined library of 420 video games over the course of my lifetime? Does it say something sinister about me that my preferred class in Mass Effect and Skyrim tends to be the sneaking sniper?
I don’t even own a gun, and if I had one it would be a Sig Sauer P239 or an FN P90 purely for nerdy reasons (ie. because they feature on NCIS and Stargate SG-1, respectively.)
People are just looking for a scapegoat by blaming video games. They’re not interested in helping to fix anything.