Irish Community Leader Blames Arizona Massacre on Games

[JDKJ]

I can't believe he made such a big mistake. Then NRA actively tries to warn people against the misuses of firearms and teaches people to respect them and use them like tools, not toys. It's like saying that driving schools encourage people to drive fast and commit vehicular homicide since they teach people how to operate motor vehicles.

But at the same time, they spend vast amounts of money lobbying to ensure that an assortment of firearms and ammunition (which serve very little purpose that I can see other than equipping a user with the ability to shot a great number of human beings with high efficiency) are legally available in many of the United States (including Arizona, which I believe has that-crazy-if-you-ask-me-law that allows concealed carry without the requirement of a permit or any prior certification in the use of a handgun).

If it was possible to round up every firearm and bullet in American and ensure that no more were manufactured, imported, sold, or possessed, I'd imagine that homicide by gun numbers would fall by 99% overnight. There's gotta be some type of correlation between availability of guns and death by guns.

 

[Blatherscythe]

Go fuck yourself Asshole O'Shithead. Sure blame everything that the fucking nut did in his spare time as a link to his rampage that ended the lives of six innocent people. Your Irish, did you know that many a murder and fatal car crash has happened because of alcohol? Fuck let's ban that! Hell he used a gun, let's remove all the guns from citizens and only allow lawbreakers and government officals have them. Fuck off you close minded asswipe.

 

[ilspooner]

Oh, for fuck's sake, pointing out the logical fallacies in this guy's reasoning would just be sodomizing a dead horse. Let's all just agree that he's talking out of his ass and call it a day.

Agreed. I feel sorry for the families who lost people in the massacre. I just want to see that the guy gets what he deserves. I don't want to see people pointing and blaming. Grrrr.

 

[Mark Hardigan]

Right. Because Video games cause all the worlds ills. Eventually this will pass, and the pea-brains who bring this argument up will move on to a new medium, just as they moved on from movies and comic books to video games. Doesn't make it any less moronic though. And frankly as someone who is not only a gamer, but a responsible gun owner, this stuff really gets on my nerves. *gets coffee to calm down*

 

[Double A]

*ahem*

Dear Mr O'Dowd,

Please do research before you blame video games, I am sure you will find that plenty of completely normal people play them. Don't hate something because you don't understand it. Also, do some research on the NRA. You act like the it is a criminal organization for supporting the rights of something completely legal.

Fuck you,
AA

 

[Lt. Vinciti]

-sigh-

You'd figure we'd be used to this my now as part of how the world works. Birds fly, fish swim, and politicians blame violence on video games.

Hmmm

Dont politicans start most of the violence tho....

Also, Ladies and Gentlemen meet your new Jack Thompson!

 

[MoeTheMonk]

Well, this makes about as much sense as blaming Palin for the massacre...

 

[MoeTheMonk]

whoops double post

 

[Ih8pkmn]

I fucking KNEW this was going to happen!

I KNEW someone would try and belittle this tragic event with the claim that "Imaginary shooting is to blame for real shooting".

I have this to say to you, Niall O'Dowd:

SHUT THE FUCK UP.

OK, so the shooter had an account on the Empire Earth forums. But know you what? Empire Earth isn't even a shooting game, it's a strategy game, and last time I checked, there wasn't a mission in that game to assassinate a congresswoman.

 

[Fearzone]

I have never seen a mass shooting like this so politicized. People who point fingers at any thing other than the murderer and his mental instability ought to be ashamed of themselves.

 

[Last Bullet]

Why didn't I see this coming? Oh yeah, IT MAKES NO FUCKING SENSE. *grumble* Looks like I have to add some points to my cynicism skill...

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

Just to let you know image posts don't go down too well here you have actually post some words.

OT: Seriously though this is nothing to get worked up about. Gets tiring seeing people got almost batshit insane and blow a sensationalist opinion out of proportion. I think we all know on this forum that what he is saying is bullshit. Unless of course you are already unstable then yes playing videogames can be a problem.

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

There's a shock. I literally had this argument with my parents this morning. Normally they have been very good about the whole 'gaming causes violence' but for some reason they were suddenly 'you know, maybe it is time to look at the tendency for videogames to set people off.'

People have, I responded, and they found no link. In the same way that there is no direct link between reading The Catcher in the Rye and deciding to shoot John Lennon. Or listening to a death metal song and deciding to set a bar on fire. Videogaming is not different to every other medium, it is the same. Anyone who claims that videogaming is somehow special is just as ignorant and uninformed as the people who claimed films would destroy the world, or television, or books, or rock and roll music, or even fucking Mozart and his wild ways. These people have always been wrong, as they will be again.

Videogaming is close to being a persecuted minority. And a government sanctioned one at that! (Sarcasm)

Seriously though, having said that to them I linked them to the articles the Escapsit published sometime in the last few months about the latest study which shows videogames and violence are not linked in any way. Hopefully they've been educated for another few months.

 

[Ldude893]

Sweet Jebus, here we go again.
Look, just because a gunman who shot 6 people played video games doesn't mean that video games are the reason he went berserk. It's like saying Hitler killed 6 million Jews during WWII because his Catholic faith made him do it.

 

[FightThePower]

What an absolute fucking moron.

I don't really need to elaborate on this.

 

[AstylahAthrys]

In another thread I said that the only people who would blame it on video games were idiots. Well, I stand by my opinion. This guy is an idiot.

 

[MikeOfThunder]

There is a connection between playing games and killing people.

Some gamers for example are very very lonely and deranged people. This can be said about killers. Game's are a way of escaping reality.

 

[McNinja]

Frankly he just sounds like your typical crotchety old geezer who's upset that things change. Notice he roped movies in with gaming, so it kinda comes off as one of those rants about how the media is corrupting the public.

I say let him stay on his porch yelling at kids to get off his lawn, he'll be dead soon enough.

This.

I didn't even know this man existed before now.

 

[LogicProbe]

Ignorant fool. This guy is just trying to earn brownie points within his community to propel himself up the political scale. He needed a scapegoat, and the easiest target: video games.

PS: I didn't read any other posts, so sorry if I just repeated someone else.