WTF?? ANOTHER SCHOOL SHOOTING

[two shoes]

I have:
22 Hours in Medal of Honor Warfighter
278.5 Hours in Battlefield 3
Several hundred hours in Battlefield 2
Probably close to 1000 hours in BF1942
Around 1100 hours in Call of Duty games
~50 hours in Counter Strike
107 hours in Grand Theft Auto
96 hours in Mass Effect
103 hours in Team Fortress 2
17 hours in Borderlands

I've probably killed enough characters to wipe this planet clean of life.

And yet I've never had an issue discerning reality from video games. Many of the hours listed are approximations as the games were not tracking my time.

That's a little over 3000 hours of games where I shoot people in the face.

This may explain the Pony thing...

[th3w01f]

That's a little over 3000 hours of games where I shoot people in the face.

If you've never seen a plane or a speck in the distance and for an instant though it was an attack helicopter you're more well-adjusted than me.

I'm not saying that people can't actually discern the difference between what's real and what's a game. I do however think that if you're a piece of shit and life means nothing to you a few thousand hours of practice doesn't help the situation.

[Zundfolge]

While 99% of people are unaffected by violence in video games or movies (I play Call of Duty, etc.) there is a small group of people, the other 1%, who see and play these games and begin to exercise the ideas within their minds. Eventually these thoughts become actions.

Crazy and evil people are going to find motivation for crazy and evil acts in places where healthy minded folk find none. We don't come down on these things just because of a few broken minds.

Hell, Mark David Chapman said The Catcher In The Rye in part motivated the murder of John Lenin.

Charles Manson claimed he got his orders to kill people from The Beatles Helter Skelter.

Hinckley cited Taxi Driver as a motivation to shoot Reagan (I wonder how disappointed he was to find out Jody Foster was gay?)

[Ridge]

Hell, Mark David Chapman said The Catcher In The Rye in part motivated the murder of John Lenin.

Lenin


Lennon

This may explain the Pony thing...

Nah, that's a whole nother thing all together...

[Zundfolge]

Lenin


Lennon

Stoopid Spel Chekc

[Ridge]

[Atrain1]

I get what Stevelkinevil says- I really do. I'm referring to younger people I guess. I think the mass murder and mass killing video games desensitize them to such mass violence.

I completely disagree with this as I did with music being blamed for suicides. I play all of those games and I am not exactly young but not old either, I still have not been desensitized nor has anyone I know or play with. I guess it really depends on the game as well, but my view on that and the music topic is it is an excuse for having a weak and easy influenced mind. I on the other hand do not disagree that they are designed to do so right along with TV and useless violence in movies.

[Atrain1]

I have:
22 Hours in Medal of Honor Warfighter
278.5 Hours in Battlefield 3
Several hundred hours in Battlefield 2
Probably close to 1000 hours in BF1942
Around 1100 hours in Call of Duty games
~50 hours in Counter Strike
107 hours in Grand Theft Auto
96 hours in Mass Effect
103 hours in Team Fortress 2
17 hours in Borderlands

I've probably killed enough characters to wipe this planet clean of life.

And yet I've never had an issue discerning reality from video games. Many of the hours listed are approximations as the games were not tracking my time.

That's a little over 3000 hours of games where I shoot people in the face.

I agree with this except for the GTA games or any games like them as I do not like to play games with useless violence. I do play the COD games and just started in BF3 (that guy was stupid with that shotgun) and assassin's creed. I have hundreds of hours on my games as well and I have not been desensitized nor have I ever thought about hurting anyone.

[trlcavscout]

Exactly!

[Geology Rocks]

Hickenlooper is making comments already.