Unless it can proved that a movie or video game is MORE responsible for a bullet-ridden corpse...

[Bicoastal]

...than the weapon smoking in the shooter's hand, then NO, I don't think we need to regard the blame-the-culture-at-large idea floated by the NRA as anything but a diversionary tactic.

Fox News Host Calls Out "Hollywood's Violent Video Games" At NRA Event

Guns don't kill people, people kill people--so we've got a people problem? Well shit, we've been trying to fix people for thousands of years, and if you haven't noticed, we are the same violent, half-crazed, barely-civilized species we've always been. The only thing that's changed is that we don't carry clubs or swords anymore--we carry contraptions that can kill a kid on the other side of the street with an accidental flick of our finger.

And THAT'S where any thinking person would try to start with the fix. With the responsible handling and distribution of the weapons themselves, not with whatever's playing in your local multiplex or selling in your local GameStop.

[Skittles]

1. that is part of the cowardice of gun humpers

blame it all on something else

[graham4anything]

2. A good compromise would be-banning ALL guns, bullets the NRA and video games.

then all sides would be happy.

losing video games would be a small price to pay for getting rid of 100% of all bullets and guns in the hands of anyone but law enforcement while on duty.

[pintobean]

5. You and Bloomy can buy up all the games.

[graham4anything]

6. learn to play chess. Brains vs. thumbs. I'll take brains.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

8. You've obviously never played a video game...

Lots of challenge, strategy, and thought. Not to mention the hand-eye coordination. They've come a LONG way since Pong.

[jeff47]

3. It also suffers from statistics

Because the total number of gun deaths is slowly declining. The total number of video games sold is massively increasing.

If video games were the cause, then the numbers couldn't be moving in opposite directions.

[Bluenorthwest]

4. It is a common right wing diversion, blame the music and the films not the criminals and their tools

The right likes to censor and ban the arts anyway so this works for them.

[Initech]

7. Yeah one person alone is not going to get their opinions across to a multi billion dollar industry.

This crap has been going on since the days of Frank Zappa and the Parents Music Resource Council back in the mid 80's. The rights' efforts to curb free speech didn't work then and it doesn't work now.