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Reggie Fils-Aime comments on "the ill-informed" who are blaming gun violence on video games
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Those graphs need to be shoved to the politicians' faces. Tweeting to "inform" them is simply not enough.
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I don't know why this reply made me laugh so hard. Might be seeing it randomly come from a blue checkmark.
Dropping them truth bombs. Everybody in the world loves videogames yet these shootings only seem to happen in America.
There's probably a little bit to be said about countries were hyper violent FPS games are highly popular. It's not unreasonable to say that they may not be the healthiest thing for people to be playing for hours on end, particularly those who may already have mental illness/issues, suffer from depression, anxiety, etc. Ultimately though video games, and other mediums with certain highly violent high profile genres/releases, are really low on the list of things to investigate and address when it comes to gun violence, or violent behavior in general.
If after we've dealt with gun laws, significantly de-armed the population, put serious money into mental health care and medical care in general, curtailed hate speech and radicalization online, etc., and we still have severe problems with gun violence and mass shootings, then sure lets take a look at the media we are consuming.
If after we've dealt with gun laws, significantly de-armed the population, put serious money into mental health care and medical care in general, curtailed hate speech and radicalization online, etc., and we still have severe problems with gun violence and mass shootings, then sure lets take a look at the media we are consuming.
They don't care about being informed. Video games is their scapegoat and people are wasting their time defending video games instead of attacking politicians for not implementing gun control laws.
This Politifact article links a 2007 study which states "Americans make up less than 5 percent of the world's population yet own roughly 42 percent of all the world's privately held firearms".
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This is amazing haha
Really happy to see Reggie talk like this, I wish more execs (I guess former in his case) did this.
I read his tweet as "4% of the [US] population own 43% of the guns [in the US]" but that's probably me being tired, I'll edit that
I mean, the fact that USA owns 47% of the world's firearms is still scary, but that should be what he meant.
His wording make it sounds like in USA, 4% of the population own 47% of all firearms of the country. Which the article seems to indicate those values are worldwide. Not that those values at a global scale ain't batshit crazy anyway.
I read it the same way.
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Ah, I can understand resding it like that. Likely not worded as best as he could have. But with the numbers being almost identical, I think it's clear he was referring to what you posted.
I mean why treat this like a console war thing when Reggie isn't even at Nintendo anymore
I don't know why but I thought that too. Glad to see my fears are unfounded. And it really wouldn't have made much sense, considering he's the son of Haitian immigrants. Reggie really is a great man. Nintendo was lucky to have him.
Huh? I mean for their guys to make a statement together or support Nintendo or whatever. The gaming industry is being attacked for the Cheeto in office and the gop. They are literally posting fake news of their own and running with it which is spreading the the web.
I mean, Reggie isn't white, so him being a Republican would actually be pretty surprising all things considered, even if he does have a lot of money
I'm a Nintendo fan, but Nintendo has nothing to do with this, Reggie is retired now, this is his own personal thoughts on the issue
Isn't Reggie retired? He's probably speaking out like this because he doesn't have to worry about rocking any boats
No lie
Not happening while the ESA still wants to play nice with the White House.
Gun laws have nothing to do with being a Republican. If you like a particular political party it doesn't mean you agree with everything the party does. I'm sure there are Republicans who feel the same way about Guns as liberals do.