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Originally Posted by bobabode
I dunno, Dave. The Japanese have some pretty gruesome video games and their kids play a lot more than anyone. They aren't out there playing shoot 'em up for real. It's a common theme in right wing diatribes about how Hollyweird is to blame and first person shooter games are what is desensitizing kids. Meh, I smell deflection of the NRA sort.
Hell, I've spent far too many hours shooting down Nazis and Japanese planes in MS Combat Flight Simulator and it hasn't turned me into a bloodthirsty killer.
Mebbe if I got my hands on a real P38 or P51 I would snap but I doubt it though.
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Originally Posted by icenine
Bullshit
Japan has way violent games and Manga comics. You can probably count gun homicides on one hand. Where do you think Tarantino gets all of his violent movie ideas?
cop out of the highest order.
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Yup
Japanese video games are played more and are far more violent but yet look at the murder stats and gun violence stats.
Huge cop out for the gun industry to try and take heat off them. They just hope folks "in the know" don't get the truth out, like most things.
I'm pretty sure pete and a few others have cracked open a little tome known as "the Bible". Shit, God himself told folks to commit genocide but not to stop at that, to kill all the livestock and salt the fields......