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Op Ed

[Jan 16, 2013, 09:39 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Forbes - Fun with Reductio ad Absurdum, the NRA and Video Games.
Is it because the media is a corruptible influence? Here’s a hint. It’s because we love real life guns so much as a society that violent shooter games are so popular. A society that is inherently fascinated with violence creates violent media, it’s not the other way around. And say what you will about this debate, but a kid playing a video game where he shoots a gun is safer than a kid who is shooting an actual gun, even just at inanimate objects. Compare a kid playing Call of Duty five hours a day to one who goes to the shooting range for the same duration. Which one might be better at hitting real world targets? Adam Lanza was a crack shot, and it’s more than a little bit likely it was from his time spent with his mom on the shooting range than it was from his hours spent playing Starcraft.

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Re: Op Ed

Jan 16, 2013, 22:12

SmyTTor

Yosemite Sam wrote on Jan 16, 2013, 16:19: Society mirroring media mirroring society. Sure glad Biden is the VP, had Mrs Clinton been in that position it would have been very bad for us gamers. Shes another one of those who care little for facts and are more concerned with which way the wind blows. I have to agree with that. Voting and supporting the Iraq invasion then turning around and condemning it for an election primary is fairly blatant. Forbes put out a decent and relatively fair opinion piece. Kudos.

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Comment [quote="SmyTTor"Jan 16, 2013, 22:12][quote="Yosemite Sam"Jan 16, 2013, 16:19]Society mirroring media mirroring society. Sure glad Biden is the VP, had Mrs Clinton been in that position it would have been very bad for us gamers. Shes another one of those who care little for facts and are more concerned with which way the wind blows. [/quote] I have to agree with that. Voting and supporting the Iraq invasion then turning around and condemning it for an election primary is fairly blatant. Forbes put out a decent and relatively fair opinion piece. Kudos. [/quote]

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