ban video games first

I feel there should be a ban on all violent video games.

can't do it.

video games are the training-ground for military drone operators.

you sound like an idiot liberal. I'm 25 years old, have been a gamer since I was 5. I have a job, I have no criminal record violent or otherwise. take away our guns why you're at it libtard

Lets just ban everything

and source of PHAT LOOTS!

I think you completely misread his post.

indeed. video games are a lot like crack and heroin.

Infact, I put it to you that if we ban video games, MORE shootings will occur. These games are a stress relief for many people alike.

This really isn't the right path to go down.

Fvck you....

I agree! Ban the video games where the raping and killing of women and children is displayed. I have been watching the coverage of the Conn. shootings and it's one long lobby for gun control. Sickening!

Guys get a grip.

This whole "construct" (as the architect would say in the "Matrix" movie) is designed to desensitize you. This isn't heaven. It could be, but we won't allow it due to our own self destructive design flaws in our brains thanks to TPTB.

You want to ban this and that. Why not ban schools. This is where the majority of instances like this take place. Kids get thrown into an unknown environment and are stuck alone learning the psychological effects that come associated with it; some become bully's, some become introverts, etc... It's how the cards roll on the table at the time. Teachers don't have the time to step in and God knows that parents don't have the time.

Just saying.

I play black ops 2 every day for hours after I get off work during the week. I don't feel like buying assault rifles, hand guns and stockpiles of ammo then going to a elementary school and shooting defenseless kids.

I agree with banning schools (at least the public ones), but for a whole slew of reasons irrelevant to the thread and incompatible with the amount of time I want to spend typing. Anyhoo...

In earlier generations, parents didn't have to find the time for such things....they made time for their kids. There's a difference...and a huge one at that.

Ban religion. It is responsible for more deaths that video games ever have or ever will.

Karl Marx wanted to ban God, but then they just started
calling him a communist.

ban conspiracy site first

Mate, we have the most testosterone in our bodies when we are 2 years old. Go read a book.

Afraid your right it will bring about real shootings as stress relief we are past the point there is no returning too many already have fallen into this way of thinking as you see by some posts there basic morals have been corrupted and they defend there ideals .sad . If you take it away now there will be no outlet but the real thing. sad.

Just lumping the killers in with the "sad people" and not examining the situation further is what we keep doing, over and over and over. Even when there is a clear and obvious cause,like a brain tumor, we downplay it because we like to think we have free will.

Stupid.

I blow the heads off Super Mutants in Fallout all the time. I got my first Nintendo at 7 and have pretty much been blasting monsters since. I have played every Grand Theft Auto release since the first for the original Playstation and yet I've never stolen a car. I've never run over a hooker to get my money back from her. I've never shot at a human being.

I'm now in my early 30s and a productive member of society.

BAN IDIOTS. That's a good start.

The games are already rated. And you can't purchase some unless you are a certain age. So what now? Can't make shooting games at all? Ok. No violent movies either. Lets just all sit around and read the bible. We can just sit here with our fingers in our ears and pretend like Jesus is the answer.

Op youre fucking retarded.

Are you

Now if you REALLY want a great GLP style conspiracy topic, talk about the way FUNDING a game works. Imagine walking into a room full of suits and saying, "I have this great idea! Can I have $25 million?" The people who control the purse strings determine what gets made.

Call of the Duty sales have been surpassing a BILLION frigging dollars. That's one reason they get funded. But honestly, it's the same game every year (just like Madden)! Same game but with new assets, maps and models cooked up with whatever the latest/hottest shader and lighting tech is available and with 20% more polys on screen.

I'm going to go out on a limb here though and predict we may be seeing the FPS markest beginning to crest. You may laugh but "E-Sports" are beginning to gain serious ground. It's to the point that it is beginning to influence game design. Make sure your game is as fun to watch as it is to play so pros can stream it and spectators can watch it! There's a huge side-market brewing with "E-Sports" that has gotten the attention of the project funders.

Current FPS games don't make great E-Sports simply because they are not as fun to watch as games like League of Legends, Street Fighter or even a platformer or a good MMO. Not to mention, the ultra-violence of it turns a lot of people off. So the next decade will likely see the marginalization of the first person shooter genre unless they take serious steps to make it more fun to watch. The problem is they may try but doing so will likely marginalize their core player base, reduce sales (and future funding) and slowly strangling the FPS genre out either way.

Consider that now blood money

Remember when SNES released Mortal Kombat and it had no blood?

Afraid of the truth I see

Get off the antidepressants dumbass. Theyre killing u