Video games are evil

[MicaelS]

106. Nope, speak of them.

As a Gun Owner, I'll support stronger Gun Control. I'll support magazine capacity limits. I'll support keeping electronic records of all gun transactions at the Federal Level. I demand opening the NICS to everyone and requiring every firearms transaction, to go through it. No exceptions. I'll go along with one gun a month. I might even support licensing of anyone who want to own a gun.

But if you think I'm going to let the debate be limited just to Guns, you had better think again.

If we have a "Gun Culture" or "Violent Culture" it does not exist in a vacuum. It is not simply fault of Guns. It is the fault of:

Hollywood, and every writer, producer, director, actor, publicist, studio, network executive, etc. who ever worked on a violent film, or TV program in which guns were used, misused, or glorified in any fashion, all the way back to the Great Train Robbery.

Every person who ever bought a ticket to one of these films, or watched these TV shows and thus encouraged Hollywood to make more of them. Especially the modern filmmakers that started making movies and TV programs with “ultraviolence” since the 1960s onward.

Every newspaper, news magazine, radio or TV news station whether local, network, cable or satellite that runs “if it bleeds is leads” coverage. And every person who watched them, and thus encouraged them to run more.

Every writer or artist of any fiction in any printed form in which guns were used, misused, or glorified in any fashion, and anyone who bought their work and thus encouraged to them to make more.

The video game industry and every writer, producer, director, actor, publicist, studio, executive, etc. who ever worked on a violent video game in which guns were used, misused, or glorified in any fashion. Everyone who sold bought or played one of these games, and thus encouraged to them to make more.

Any buyer or seller of illegal substances. Going back to Alcohol and Drug Prohibition in the early 20th Century, which thus encouraged small criminals to become big criminals, and misuse guns to make money.

If the printed or spoken words can hurt, then so can images. Still or moving, real or imagined.

If printed or spoken words can be Hate Speech, then so can images. Still or moving, real or imagined.

Hollywood and the video game industry is going to have to accept part of the blame, and be held accountable. If they don't start putting self-imposed limits on their product, then society will compel them.

Then we need to repeal HIPAA and establish a National Database of those diagnosed as Mentally Ill, so those people can be cross referenced by, and added to NICS so they can't get access to guns. And make it lot easier for those diagnosed as Mentally Ill to be involuntarily committed, and held as needed. And fund National Mental Health Care as needed.

And yes, some video games are evil. The Grand Theft Auto series comes to mind.