Games and Guns and Stuff By BanMan

By BanMan
POSTED: 18 Jan 2013 17:52
CATEGORY: Polemic Rant
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There's been somewhat of a debate over guns recently, and some people blame video games on violence. Also certain people dislike the Second Amendment in the United States (which allows citizens to own guns).

First, video games. If you've read any news in the last few days about this, you may already know, but there have been some political things going on about video games and violence. In fact, a town in Massachusetts plans to have a trade system in which people will be able to give violent games and get coupons in return (even getting to skip homework for giving up violent games). This, in my opinion, is not a good idea and the government shouldn't get into that. That's not all though. There have also been talks of legislation to deal with violent games, and even a tax for them.

It's really not thought through very much as it seems, because even if violent games were to the point of being banned, would there still be violence? Yes. You can simply take a look at some history books about some violent situation that happened before video games were ever invented.

In an even broader subject, guns. Trying to take away the Second Amendment or change it doesn't work either. In a similar statement to games, violence has happened before guns were invented. And if guns were banned, criminals wouldn't care. They would still get their hands on what they wanted. It's not like they obey the law anyway. They're criminals. Certain drugs are illegal, but are they still used? Of course. So banning guns would not even be a solution. Even if a criminal were to not find a gun, he could still use some sort of weapon. Citizens need the right to bear arms because they need to be able to protect themselves and their families.

So basically, the government has no place doing anything to the Second Amendment and it doesn't need to do anything about video games. It's fine to just stay out of this stuff.

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Rlad116
09 Apr 2013 00:32

Yush, I agree

jen-naythompson
28 Jan 2013 04:41

can we be friends

Village Idiot
23 Jan 2013 06:11

In the time America has had 200 school shootings Israel has had 8 beacause the teachers have bloody hand guns in there desk and have soldiers around.

If anything, everyone who is law abiding(?) should have a gun cause if everyone had a gun ad kew how t use it there would be no shootings, home robing, hold-ups at a bank, ect.

HullBreach
20 Jan 2013 20:05

Quoth GuitarBoy:

If they want to ban guns, so be it.

Let's see the president not having any armed secret service men to protect him, or celebrities that support this idea facing poparazzi with their bare hands.

It applies to everyone except them, since they are more important than us peons.

HullBreach
20 Jan 2013 13:23

Quoth BanMan:

Quoth The Ramquote]
Actually, Danny, crime is actually up. Chicago surpassed the 500 homicide mark again for the first time since 2008, and it's a very negative milestone. While the plethora of communication technologies allows us to be spammed with more news, there has been an actual increase in recent months.

Even if this were true, which it may be, it's a recent issue and hasn't been that way since the Second Amendment was put into the Constitution.[/quote]

It is true, but it is also worth noting that Chicago has some of the strongest anti-gun laws in the country, so how are these criminals getting ahold of the guns? Hmm

Rather than counting the flat number of homicides, its probably more accurate to count homicides per 100,000, since it accounts for population fluctuations over years.

BanMan
20 Jan 2013 03:51

Quoth The Ram:

Actually, Danny, crime is actually up. Chicago surpassed the 500 homicide mark again for the first time since 2008, and it's a very negative milestone. While the plethora of communication technologies allows us to be spammed with more news, there has been an actual increase in recent months.

Even if this were true, which it may be, it's a recent issue and hasn't been that way since the Second Amendment was put into the Constitution.

The Ram
20 Jan 2013 03:04

Quoth HullBreach:

Quoth Tora.Silverquote]Banning guns is not as much as to keep them out of the hands of those likely to use them as much as to be able to get them out legally once they are discovered. I don't understand why so many people WANT to supply murderers with guns.
Furthermore, while it's true that violent acts have always existed, isn't it obvious that the amount of violent acts has increased dramatically over the years?

No, mass communication just lets us hear about the acts of violence more.[/quote]

Actually, Danny, crime is actually up. Chicago surpassed the 500 homicide mark again for the first time since 2008, and it's a very negative milestone. While the plethora of communication technologies allows us to be spammed with more news, there has been an actual increase in recent months.

Wulvezz4Ever
19 Jan 2013 06:13

I'm listening to the news and stuff, and they're blaming the guns, the games, religion etc. They avoid saying that people are the ones in control of the gun. And not even that. Research says that where, how, and who someone was raised by can affect a lot in that someone's future.
Violence is violence. If you put a group of people in an isolated room, without any guns/knives/videogames, they'd still have their fist. And they'll use it if they have to.

sorry if what i said made no sense at all, its late and im tired.

Village Idiot
19 Jan 2013 05:54

Quoth HullBreach:

I remember one time when I saw a gun jump off a table, load itself with ammo, turn off its own safety, and shoot a man. Then the gun stole his wallet. Since guns can do all that on their own, we obviously need to ban them.

Dude almost the same thi g happened o me!; My rifle unlocked itself and ran to shed, loaded himself,and began to shoot at me, BUT luckly I can dodgebullets. d:

Village Idiot
19 Jan 2013 05:53

People will always find ways to break the law as they do with covaine, cristal meth, weed, opium, ext.

Don't we the people have the right to bare arms, when they take your guns away and a law breaker comes in with a gun who's gonna stop him?

HullBreach
19 Jan 2013 03:00

Quoth Tora.Silver:

Banning guns is not as much as to keep them out of the hands of those likely to use them as much as to be able to get them out legally once they are discovered. I don't understand why so many people WANT to supply murderers with guns.
Furthermore, while it's true that violent acts have always existed, isn't it obvious that the amount of violent acts has increased dramatically over the years?

No, mass communication just lets us hear about the acts of violence more.

Tora.Silver
19 Jan 2013 02:41

Banning guns is not as much as to keep them out of the hands of those likely to use them as much as to be able to get them out legally once they are discovered. I don't understand why so many people WANT to supply murderers with guns.
Furthermore, while it's true that violent acts have always existed, isn't it obvious that the amount of violent acts has increased dramatically over the years?

HullBreach
19 Jan 2013 01:10

I remember one time when I saw a gun jump off a table, load itself with ammo, turn off its own safety, and shoot a man. Then the gun stole his wallet. Since guns can do all that on their own, we obviously need to ban them.

Waffle King
19 Jan 2013 00:30

Quoth jsa005:

How much is that "skip homework" right per piece? $60. No deal. If a game costs that much, if you're gonna get rid of it, . (Prob. got colours mixed up) Buy a very cheap violent game like an NES game and bring it in to school. It probably cost you like 99¢ so basically "Skip homework - that'll be 99 cents please." Good deal. Skip homework for a dollar.

>> Trade in games, skip homework.

Because America doesn't have enough stupid kids.

jsa005
19 Jan 2013 00:09

How much is that "skip homework" right per piece? $60. No deal. If a game costs that much, if you're gonna get rid of it, eBay. (Prob. got colours mixed up) Buy a very cheap violent game like an NES game and bring it in to school. It probably cost you like 99¢ so basically "Skip homework - that'll be 99 cents please." Good deal. Skip homework for a dollar.

LinkZelda
18 Jan 2013 18:05

Criminals aren't afraid to break the law.
We are.

That's why we should at least have some form of protection.

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