Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

xp in most other countries when a kid puts down the console there is not an actual arsenal of the same irl weapons in the next room

anyway why does this topic keep tipping into this zero-sum thing like anybody here is actually suggesting vdeo games are even fractionally as much to blame as actual fucking guns

sic I don't get yr question

The problem is that's precisely what some prominent voices in the US are in fact suggesting. So swooping in to say "you know what? Maybe they have a point." is inevitably going to cause folks on here to get their backs up.

xp

....prioritisation?

guns

opiates

mental health treatment

tbh video games, movies, rock music etc etc are all such classic obfuscatory tropes that kickback against raising any of them- even in a zero-sum context- is surely to be expected

xp as stated

They took prayer out of the schools and now....
(Fill in the blank)

xxp I know, I feel like Tipper Gore up in here

anyway sic I am saying that if I had a son I would say nope I don't think that's healthy, play FIFA or your guitar or jerk off instead

I am trying to make a distinction btw these games and this specific technology—how they work on the brain, what gets triggered, what makes them addictive, the reward system, etc.—as a category apart from "Violence in media" playing Ozzy backwards or watching Portrait of a Serial Killer but this seems like a massive challenge

It's clearly important to you, but maybe this isn't the appropriate time or place

lol yes, now is the time for mourning not politics

but ok, this last:

we've generally come to agree as a society that overexposure to a certain kind of porn can harm ppl's ideas/attitudes/expectations around sex and treatment of women...why is it so triggering to wonder the same about spending too much time pretending to riddle people with bullets?

Wtf is your problem?

(sic is making a joke because you wrote dfag instead of dgaf)

ahhhh

xp huh? I was taking your point abt it being a dead horse

sorry for appending another thought that got cross-posted in the interim? don't shoot!

or I don't know Moodles maybe you are srsly offended by that thought

clearly I have crossed some avid gamers, I'm out

I'm not a gamer, but yes I'm offended.

now is the time for mourning not politics

This is a bullshit POV to throw at me just because I don't want to engage in a video games argument. It is absolutely time for politics, and arguing about games is a distraction from that.

why is it so triggering

Fuck off with this shit. No one is "triggered", in fact I don't think anyone is even trying to say video games are perfect on here. I, for one, am very annoyed that after 30 people were killed you are sucking up oxygen on here with a topic that is very tangential to stopping this plague of terrorism.

it wasn't meant in earnest, chill out. You happened to use a GOP talking point almost verbatim, I think unironically, and I built on it for you.

Distraction from what? Did I just prevent you from hurrying to the chamber to cast a deciding vote? Are you picketing Smith & Wesson?

Anyway there's a poll now, take it out over there. Holy smokes.

Fox News did to our parents what they thought video games would do to us.

— Ryan Scott (@ryan_scott) August 3, 2019

<<< rejoins ILX plan to put an end to plague of terrorism >>>

Jesus Christ, you're an asshole

dude

easy

OMG, can't believe the discussion in here today. I don't even know how many thousands of people I've murdered in video games. IRL, I've been in one legit fight ever (in eighth grade), I detest guns, and I deplore violence. I guess I just need to play GTA a few more times until my psycho spree killer mode unlocks.

I don't think violence in media is necessarily a net positive (particularly with respect to its potential unsupervised kids and people with an inability to differentiate reality vs. fantasy) but it's not the cause of any of this.

Impact, not potential. Sorry, video games have rottened by branes.

yesterday a disturbed 17-y-o threw a little kid off the Tate Modern in London. hard not to imagine how things might have been different in the land of the free.

I blame it on the 'This is Sparta!' meme.

The 6 year old could have shot him first.

How are you supposed to tell a toy gun apart from the real thing under such perilous circumstances?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/09/29/american-toddlers-are-still-shooting-people-on-a-weekly-basis-this-year/

Some good news: 8chan is now offline. At last.

now do ilx

think the opprobrium aimed at hadrian is a bit strong lads, even while arguing against his point

Right, exactly. Can you imagine any American regime treating Richard Spencer like Anwar al-Awlaki? I'm not calling for them to, I'm just asking, what's the difference between them? https://t.co/6IkEd04NzR

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) August 5, 2019

In the wake of every spree shooting there are ten more aborted rants in my email drafts folder about how the problem is CCW permits, that uniquely American phenomenon. Racism and terrorism exist everywhere but only in the states— all 50 of them, thank you scotus— is it legal to carry concealed firearms.

Or carry openly, like here in Texas!

So not to be one of those people, but has there been any further verification that Dayton shooter identified himself as a 'leftist' and a Warren backer? apparently on a twitter profile. Or is this some kind of right-wing disinfo that isn't getting any play in actual press?

" Some good news: 8chan is now offline. At last." yeah their bot protection/CDN dropped them but presumably something somewhere is still hosting it. I think it's being DDOSed now.

nyt summarizing tweets:

President Trump on Monday called for Republicans and Democrats to work together to strengthen background checks for prospective gun buyers and proposed “marrying” new measures with new immigration laws — two of the most politically divisive issues facing lawmakers.

the gall

the fucking gall

That's what they like about him.

His speech this morning is fine but I can’t imagine him actually following through on this.

His speech this morning is fine

No.

"fine"

have we really sunk this low?

Yes.

swift and decisive death penalty!

cages for brown ppl and the mentally ill

So destructive...

npr pundit pointing out how DJT called out white supremacy in his speech, finding it noteworthy because in the past he has “found it difficult” to do so.

*click*

Baby steps.

that speech is nothing more than signaling there will be a poison pill regarding immigration attached to any gun control bill so he can blame the dems