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NEWS: Media Reports Tie D.C. Navy Yard Shooter to Violent Video Games

Here we go again...

I find this kind of shit truly despicable. It's downright dangerous and woefully irresponsible. And it has nothing to do with games themselves. I mean, that's not to say that video games aren't in serious danger as a result of this. The writing is on the wall. They will continue be the scapegoat for incidents like this. And the only amendment most Americans seem to give a shit about is the second. So if tragedies like this keep happening, and they will, it may well result in actual repercussions for video games. But I digress. As I said it isn't even really about video games. That's really relatively immaterial when dozens of innocent people are routinely getting killed. And that's what's really really disgusting about this. It ends up distracting from the real issues here. The fact that these incidents keep occurring...hell, they've basically become a monthly occurrence at this point...needs to be addressed. But we're not gonna do that are we America? Oh no. Of course not. Because who wants to take a hard look at the real problems in America like the total lack of gun control (B...but...my phallic big man hero fantasies) or the atrocious mental health record (I mean you can't ban mental illness. So obviously our hands are tied) when we can just blame an easy scapegoat like games. And why wouldn't you? Even if there's no evidence to support this whatsoever (in fact the opposite) truth has become flaccid and malleable. So long as it draws views the talking heads will just go ahead and claim it to be the case. And then other talking heads will proceed to repeat it. Because the news media is basically one big, loud, living confirmation bias. And thus, to all the idiots who's only source of info is the aforementioned talking heads (and why wouldn't it be? They're "fair and balance" they said so themselves) will go ahead and believe it. Which will just feed right into the confirmation machine. And thus, the debate surrounding these issues comes to be centered on something that is completely irrelevant. Call me dramatic but I sincerely believe this plays a major role in impeding America from making meaningful change. And if America doesn't change, this kind of thing will keep happening. And when it does, the blood of those who die in these incidents will be partly on the news media's hands. And I hope they rot in hell for it.

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Here we go again...

"Routinely getting killed"? Massacres are not business as usual in the United States, despite what the 24-hour news cycle will keep on telling you. Mayhem gets ratings, peace doesn't.

You have a point with regards to the dismal state of mental health in the United States, but gun control is just as much of a red herring as violent video games.

That's crap. Guns are the tools that in the most direct sense possible allow these people to kill a bunch of people before anyone can stop them. What we can do to keep them out of the hands of dangerous people should absolutely be something we're looking at. Comparing it to video games which have literally nothing to do with these incidents whatsoever is a farce.