Haven't posted in these forum in a long time but had to comment on this. The NRA held a conference after the tragedy last week and essentiallyblamed the video game industry saying it was evil and warping kids minds with violent videogames. They also said that "the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun" and suggested that armed officers should be placed in schools. I will agree with their statment about better diagnosis and support for mental illness the one point of logic in their whole conference.It's absoultely rediculous to blame videogames for these types of tragedies for 2 reasons.
1) Violent videogames are not supposed to be sold to children if a child has access to excessively violent materal such as certain videogames its a parenting issue which in todays politically correct overly sensitive society is not addressed because "it's not right to judge other people" the fact is people still judge other people but are afraid to share their thoughts because of harsh reactions from self-righteous people who will critize them for being insensitive and ignorant.
2) Violent videogames are sold all over the world yet the United States is the only place where these sort of mass shootings happen way more often because of the ease of access to guns and ammo. Sure there are rules to keep guns out of the hands of mantally Ill and criminals but once you are approved to own a gun its very easy to acquire multiple guns and excessive amounts of ammo which leads to a high number of guns with little regulation which opens up possiblilty for theft, loss, or access for people who shouldn't have access. An interesting couple stats I've seen thrown around only 1 in 3 people own guns in America yet there are over 300 million guns in america enough for 1 for every citizen. Thats the legally accessed ones that doesn't count smuggled and illegal weapons
The membership of the NRA is full of responsible gun owners who understand the dangers of guns, the ledership of the NRA however has been taken over by the Gun Lobby for a 10 billion industry they are afraid of losing money and are looking for any reason not to take some responsibilty for these kind of acts. Any other industry that has a product that causes the death of people would have recalls or face lawsuits. The gun industry points to the movie and videogame industry and tries to shift the blame, but you can't kill anybody with a videogame or movie. They also hide behind the 2nd amendmend, something that was written almost 250 years ago before the invention of semi-automatic and automatic weapons. It was also written when America was a vast sparsely populated country that faced all sorts of wild animals and before formal military and police forces were formed.
I am not an American but I'm not suggesting the removal of the 2nd Amendment or that people can't own guns. I am merely saying that the NRAs stance that more guns is the answer is somehow illogical and biased towards the gun industry and that the excessive amount of guns in the United States isn't tied at all to the higher number of these mass shootings is totally Illogical.
They are totally against any sort of conversation about any reasonable control of guns in America such as banning automatic weapons or requiring training and licensing before you can purchase semi-automatic rifles or even limiting the number of guns you can own or how much ammunition you can purchase. any one of those ideas would help and would still allow people to own guns. The NRA conference today shows their leadership speak for the gun industry and do not care about responsible gun use merely making sure the indsutry doesn't lose money.
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