Tragedy and Video Game Violence

TotalBiscuit brings you a special report on the recent tragic school shootings and how the media successfully manipulated the event, creating an unnecessary and ridiculous hype in gamers' disfavor.

Sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PezlF... - Charlie Brookers Newswipe Clip
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/c...
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/201...
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/w...
http://www.secretservice.gov/ntac/ssi...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHzTl... - CNN Clip showing Starcraft 2
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/09/bus...
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/blog...
http://www.gamezone.com/products/halo...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Warner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_corp
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/...

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  Gaming

[Guthixpwnsyou]

South Korea still bans porn, heavily censors free speech, bans guns, drugs, prostitution, is considering heavily regulating video games, and monitors peoples internet frequently.

The lesser of two evils is still evil, and the enemy of my enemy is not my friend.

[Akiraspin]

"God bless you TB" - Some guy living in his parents basement

[danlyck]

/salute

[TheTundraTerror]

What do you want to bet that the people at CNN just get this throbbing fucking erection at this kind of shit? What do you want to bet that they sit hunched over in their chair, jerking off to the photos of the dead children on one screen and their rating in the other?

[HintorMrMcFly]

If anything I use videogames to get my anger out , y kill ppl in reallife if u can u do it in a fantasy technologically advanced game , and for the record I have dynasty warriors 2 for the ps2 , and there is basically no gore whatsoever

[Guthixpwnsyou]

He's not insulting him. He (Akira) means that he is someone living in his mothers basement.

[Guthixpwnsyou]

Even then that brings to question how competent the government is at maintaining a database.

It also makes one point that really, they'll never control who buys them.

Like, right now. I can go on the internet and get any gun I want illegally, and be a psychopath too.

If the government knew how to do shit right though, I'd definitely be in full support of this. At least make it harder for them.

[feedthehungrytroll]

They shouldn't "ban" guns, they should just control who is able to buy them. For example, someone with alarming anger issues or a mentally unbalanced, psychotic individual couldn't be allowed to even own a gun, but a licensed hunter or a fair citizen could own one if he or she desired so.

(disregard the username, I'm too bored to change it).

[erik sund]

excuse me...... WHAT? youre insulting a man for trying to bring attention to a great problem! wtf is wrong with you?

[TheMcDucky]

What evidence do you have?

[puimeton]

in spain 1 kid kill his family whit a sword and point the atention on FFVIII wen it was released so you know

[Oceanrust4]

Sandy hook was an inside job. No kids died on that day.