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gcunit

A boy fatally shoots his sister in the head because she won't give him the controller:

https://news.sky.com/story/boy-shoots-sister-in-argument-over...

This tragedy could have been averted if we banned all video games and/or armed all children as a deterrent. Please sort this out for us immediately Trump.

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shaneoh

I was looking through the comments on facebook, and was pleasantly surprised how few people there were blaming video games for this.

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Anti-Matter

Something evil arroused his mind.
Something evil could come from anything, it could be from movies or video games or direct experience.
Parental control and good parenting can protect innocent kids from those Malacious things.
In this case, Parent's carelessness = Suspected, Bad entertainments = Vector / Carrier / Trigger.
Bad parenting + Vector = Disaster !

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TOUGHDUDE94

the problem is the parents need to be in the kids lifes more.There is too much hate.

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skywake

This is all just a distraction from the real issue, the only difference between the US and the rest of the world are the gun laws. Simple as that. An Australian it's kinda hard for me to not look at what we did and how well what we did worked. People who say Australia is different in terms of culture and so on are wrong. We're not less violent than the US, we don't consume less violent content with movies music and games. We're not more protective of our kids and we're not less involved in wars....

But what we did will never happen in the US. Our government quite literally made a whole range of guns illegal to own overnight. There was a grace period and compensation but the end result is the same. The government raised taxes and then had the police effectively buy and then destroy guns. If you didn't hand over your guns? Well then you were in possession of illegal firearms. And it was hugely popular.

Can you imagine that happening in the US? I can't. So we'll just have to continue to see headlines like those above and not be at all surprised when we find out it happened in the US.

Edited on by skywake

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LuckyLand

@Anti-Matter you don't even know what kind of games he played and the vector in this case was the gun not the games anyway. You know I think you should hear how I started to play on Nintendo consoles. My first console was the Gameboy but aside from that my parents didn't want me to play with consoles and preferred to let me play with computers instead. When I had the chance to buy a home console I bought a PS1 and I really loved it a lot and I was extremely into it. On the Playstation I played many different games and tried many different things, rated M and kid friendly, but I had a bad opinion about Nintendo because I thought it was boring and ONLY for kids. Then I bought a PS2 and I enjoyed it even more than the PS1. I never cared about Nintendo back then and I was sure Nintendo couldn't be as good as Playstation. I still played and enjoyed different things but in my opinion (I was around 20 year old back then) "adult" games were usually the more reliable ones to judge the quality of a console. Then I heard about Eternal darkness, and the more I searched on the net about it the more I was intrigued by it. Long story short, after a few months I bought a Gamecube and this is how my real love for Nintendo started. If it wasn't for that rated M game that made me curious about the Gamecube and interested into it I would probably own a PS4 playing the very few fantasy based rated M games (I never liked realistic games like shooters about real wars) and no kid friendly games at all by now.

Edited on by LuckyLand

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Biff_ARMStrong

@skywake Violent crimes in Australia has never dropped since the gun ban and there is no data that proves the gun ban worked. Since many studies are corrupt and include suicides to trick the mentally enslaved. Australians gave up there rights to protect themselves which is foolish in every situation. Mass shootings only occur in gun free zones. The REAL reasons for these recent mass shootings is the LACK of guns and lack of citizens learning to protect themselves. Banning guns will also escalate the black market, and thanks to Bitcoin you can now make untraced transactions no problem. Criminals NEVER obey the law, a gun ban would put those criminals at an advantage. Here in Toronto Ontario, gun violence increases every year and we've had a gun ban for a long long time. It NEVER works

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Biff_ARMStrong

@faint 'cause they're brainwashed like people here in Canada. They just get used to robberies and shootings like an everyday thing. Australia will end up like Britain, where they will end up protesting the ban of knives. When does the madness end?

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Anti-Matter

@LuckyLand
Wow...
My case was Different, and Thanks to God for protecting me from rated M games.
Even when i was Teen, i NEVER got interested with any rated M games. Thanks to my Natural kindness deep inside my heart.
My gaming console during my Teenhood were PS1 & PS2. I still remembered my First time played Magical Drop III PS1, Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy IX, Bishi Bashi Special, Dance Dance Revolution 3rd Mix, etc. All the games i played during my Teenhood and College age were just only until Rated Teen ( I played FF X, FF X-2, FF XII, Street Fighter III 3rd Strike, The Sims Bustin' Out). I played rated Everyone & Everyone 10+ by Mostly, and that was so Natural for me.

Started from November 2003, i showed my interest about playing Dance Dance Revolution Arcade at my local Game Arcade and then continued became Serious. From Novice DDR player, now i can Pass Level 18 DDR Songs. And i can play 3 Chosen DDR Songs WITHOUT Seeing any Arrows (Just using Blindfold, playing facing backward the monitor).

I returned to Nintendo again during Wii & NDS era. Thanks to A Lot of Cute and Adorable games from NDS & Wii. At the same time, it was also the Beginning of my Brokenheart with Sony started from PS3. It continued even worse since PS4 era. I felt betrayed by Sony with Massive amounts of rated M games. Too Many, until there was Almost NO Decent Cute games from PS3 / PS4 to be chosen.

If some people are Really really wish to be Matured so fast, i did the Opposite, I Afraid & Refuse to be Matured by rated M contents. That's why i'm so Against rated M games.

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LuckyLand

Anti-Matter wrote:

If some people are Really really wish to be Matured so fast, i did the Opposite, I Afraid & Refuse to be Matured by rated M contents. That's why i'm so Against rated M games.

I think that often the desire to play certain rated M games can be driven by feelings similar to your own. People are sometimes scared but you are forced to grow up anyway and to deal with unpleasant things. So it can happen that you want to experience those things while they are confined inside the screen of your tv, because you know they are less dangerous that way. You feel like you will be forced to deal with them anyway someday, and you want to learn as much as you can about them to be prepared, to develop a strategy to face them because they ARE scary.

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HappyAxiom

Millions of kids play violent video games and grow up to be decent human beings.
Only a very small percentage of the population is unable to distinguish fantasy from reality and end up doing stupid poop like shooting a family member or an entire school. Video games aren't to blame for this behavior and neither are movies or any other form of entertainment.

The only ones to blame are the governments that enable their populace to buy guns. No guns = less shootings. Easy as that. If you throw one glance at the worldwide statistics regarding gun violence, you'd instantly realize that's the only truth. Members of governments that refuse to realize that, more than likely receive money from gun lobbyists.

BTW, there's been another school shooting today, this time in Maryland. Hope everyone's OK.

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Biff_ARMStrong

@HappyAxiom No, I do actual research like looking up FBI Statistics where it states guns save millions of more lives than they do take. Do you watch CNN by chance? You claim no guns = less shootings which is false. No guns = more shootings. All mass shooting take place in gun free zones.

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1UP_MARIO

@Anti-Matter Sony didn’t betray you. Third party games betrayed you by making games for a successful system. Sony didn’t make all these m rated games. Is it a bad thing when a systems sells a lot of games.
Did Nintendo betray you with the gamecube or more recently Wii u by not selling games you want

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skywake

Biff_ARMStrong wrote:

Violent crimes in Australia has never dropped since the gun ban and there is no data that proves the gun ban worked.

Violent crime is dropping globally and has been for quite a while including in the US. Anyways, here is a graph showing Australia's crime statistics by year over the last 40 years. Left axis is total deaths from massacres as listed on wikipedia split into gun related and non gun related crimes. Most of the non-gun related massacres are arson. The right side is the homicide rate in deaths per 100k. For reference the US has been at ~5 for 20 years, they peaked at ~10 in 1980. Canada is currently at 1.9, Australia 0.9
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Note that the spike in 96 is a single event after which the laws were changed. You want data? There's your data. No doubt you'll find a way to bend it to suit your ideology. But I would argue that a fair minded person would either say that what you're saying is complete BS or, at the very least, agree that the gun reform introduced in 96 didn't hurt.

Edited on by skywake

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TuVictus

"you know what would solve our problems linked to guns? MORE GUNS!"

Yep, makes perfect sense

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gcunit

@skywake You might want to provide a source for that

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@1UP_MARIO
Um...
Actually i was Disappointed also with Wii U, by lacked of Decent Wii U games.
But, at least, WII U Backward with Wii games. That was cheered me up.

Sony dropped their balls since PS3.
No More Awesome games for All ages like on PS1 & PS2, No More Girlie games, No More cute games. Just bunch of #$@# rated M games.
Sony didn't want any cute games like Nintendo flooded on their system anymore.
If there were some cute games, the amount and the quality were Far away from Nintendo choices.

Let me show you my games comparison.
PS2 > PS1 >>>>>>>>>> PS3 & PS4
PS2 = Wii
PS2 >> Gamecube
PS1 >> N64 (i wasn't raised by N64 )
Wii >> Wii U >>>>>>>> PS3 & PS4
3DS > NDS >>>>>>>>> PSP & PS Vita
Switch >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> PS3 & PS4

If i compare All of them
Switch >>> 3DS > NDS > Wii = PS2 > PS1 > Wii U > GBA >>>>>>>>>>> PS3, PS4, PSP , PS Vita

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HappyAxiom

@Biff_ARMStrong
How do you explain there are almost no mass shootings outside the US? Countries with very strict gun laws have almost no shootings whatsoever.

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