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Reggie Fils-Aime comments on "the ill-informed" who are blaming gun violence on video games
- Thread starter ZeoVGM
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This violent games = violence by the right wing media is just 1 of their rotating excuses to avoid gun control legislation and discussion. Stop engaging them on their ground (facts on vgs) they're going to keep going more absurd and then shift it to mental health discussion, needing more Jesus or Dems are causing a race war.
Thank you Reggie! It was really disheartening when I read Trumps remarks on the industry yesterday. I couldn't even internet anymore. It really gets under my skin when games/music/movies are used as a scapegoat..
And 90% of those guns used were illegal acquired from the USA. No matter how strict the law is if the firearms are illegaly owned. Nothing much you can do unless a more strict border inspection.
It's not so hard to validate imo:
Edit: oh, after second reading you might mean the Japanese context, which I agree: you have a point there.
Strategy for what? Finally getting the US the adopt gun control?
I can propose you two solutions, one natural, one supernatural.
The natural is quite simple : You pray god so that it changes US citizens' minds about firearms.
What? The supernatural one?
You ask US citizens themselves to change their minds about firearms.
Well yeah. But guns make it a whole lot easier. A lone gunman is going to kill a shitload of people before being taken out. Someone with a knife might potentially kill a lot of people too but it's a whole lot fucking harder and happens far, far less often.
yeah, those pools of blood in wal-mart and stacks of American corpses would be totally fine if people hadn't happened. people really ought to be regulated. throw all people in jail. people really are the worst.
Glad to see Reggie give no fucks to Republican bullshit. I hope we see more of this from him now that he's retired.
There have been several black mass shooters in the past decade. The rhetoric remains the same surprisingly: "Lone wolf," "mental health," etc.
Now when it's a Muslim... oof. Go look back at the Orlando or San Bernadino shootings and you'll see some vile shit.
man shut the hell up
There have been several black mass shooters in the past decade. The rhetoric remains the same surprisingly: "Lone wolf," "mental health," etc.
Now when it's a Muslim... oof. Go look back at the Orlando or San Bernadino shootings and you'll see some vile shit.
man shut the hell up
I really like this new side we're seeing of ex-N Reggie. He must've avoided a lot of this because of brand-protection and fairness at Nintendo, and I truly find him to be a compassionate and thoughtful person through some of the statements he's made or speeches he's given since his retirement.
He also attended some university where he gave a talk about what it requires to become succesful with something and basically gave his own life-story about being on the job market and having poor relatives or something like that. It was a new side of him that never occured to me previously.
You might laugh at that but I've actually known some libertarians who are right wing nutty for the most part except for gun ownership which in their own words "is something absolutely ridiculous and over the line and needs to be regulated for the actual safety of our society." Gun control, especially after every one of these fucking shootings and ESPECIALLY after the Vegas massacre, has a much stronger amount of support in the Republican Party than you'd expect. It's not 100% sure but if it weren't for the NRA having their hand up most politicians' asses there would have been some more common sense gun laws passed a loooooong time ago.
Anyway good on Reggie here for speaking out. Facts are facts and the fact here is that games do not cause this at all. What I'd personally love next is for someone to explain to these guys that by attacking video games they're attacking a one of the biggest industries in the US and are threatening to put millions out of work with this "shut 'em all down" mentality.
Lawn mowers don't mow grass, people mow grass.
See? I can say dumb things too.
Where do you think illegal guns come from? All those guns were legally made, then legally purchased. The good ol' gun owner then illegally or gray legally sells them or they end up "stolen". Like, really, do you think guns just pop out of the ground, made from nothing? Not to mention the figure is more like 78%. Even putting all that logic aside, imagine if you could reduce gun murders by 22%? Imagine the decrease in suicides.
This is a good thread to say it once more: fuck Trump, fuck guns, fuck the alt-right and screw all right wing enablers on the internet. They are the cancer of our society.
Good guy Reggie. That graph pretty much invalidates the whole video games cause mass shootings arguement.
I'm definitely an advocate of Reggie speaking up and out towards these types of issues. I just hope he doesn't become like some others I've had to stop following that inbetweeen game updates and stories every other tweet is about Trump or something.
For clarification I'm not trying to police what anyone puts on their own social media, but I myself have grown tired of the onslaught of politics filling many people's twitter posts minus situations like this where a mass shooting occured and is trying to be linked to a medium I care about. Just when every other tweet is a quote from politicians and/or political takes I just grow weary of it.
That being said things like this are good to speak up against and I'm glad he's doing it in a level headed manner. I'm sure lots of people will get angry at him for this perspective and it takes a lot to put yourself in the crossfire of so many people.
For clarification I'm not trying to police what anyone puts on their own social media, but I myself have grown tired of the onslaught of politics filling many people's twitter posts minus situations like this where a mass shooting occured and is trying to be linked to a medium I care about. Just when every other tweet is a quote from politicians and/or political takes I just grow weary of it.
That being said things like this are good to speak up against and I'm glad he's doing it in a level headed manner. I'm sure lots of people will get angry at him for this perspective and it takes a lot to put yourself in the crossfire of so many people.
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Hmmm... the definition of "nothing" seems pretty airtight. Not sure what I'm missing here.
Right? When I told my Step-dad Republican about the first shooting, at that point I didn't know who did it, his first response was "great now Democrats are coming for our guns".
One of the loudest Republican mantra is that Democrat are going to take away your guns. It's like their greatest fear tactic. So that poster can spare me with his "it's not a Republican issue" despite decades of evidence showing IT IS.
And also they can spare me with the "not every Republican" nonsense. They know what they are voting for. If not guns then racism, is not racism then bigotry, if not bigotry then taking away rights from women, if not that then giving the corporations tax breaks. All their reasons are trash and enable gun violence either way.
I'm surprised and glad that Reggie did said what he said..
Wow..
Are we still talking about it in the 2019?
If a country don't want violence in videogames, it should ban it from any other form of entirement.
That will not change the fact that if the entire population of your country, can buy guns as easly as i can buy a donuts in mine, crazy things may happen everyday...
Wow..
Are we still talking about it in the 2019?
If a country don't want violence in videogames, it should ban it from any other form of entirement.
That will not change the fact that if the entire population of your country, can buy guns as easly as i can buy a donuts in mine, crazy things may happen everyday...
You can't compare different years and think you're actually comparing what you say they're comparing. Because they're not.
I don't think I understand what you're saying here.
But I also don't think two years is enough to make too much of a difference in video game popularity to invalidate his point.
It's pretty straight forward: when you compare two events or try to show causality (or lack thereof) you should use the same year at least. On top of that, they've just cherry-picked a few countries out of the blue. There's no way of knowing where these stand globally compared to others. And from what I've learned today, the United States counts suicides to their gun violence death statistics which most countries don't.
Having said that, of course I'm not saying videogames cause gun violence. I've been playing videogames since 1991. But if you want to show this, there are certainly better ways to show it than Vox did (or didn't). :-)
