calls for banning video game after mass shooting

[gejohnston]

Dressed in camouflage gear and armed with two semi-automatic rifles, Dmitry Vinogradov shot dead three men and two women at their desks before giving himself up to security guards, the Russian Investigative Committee said in a statement. Another man and a woman were wounded.

Local media said Vinogradov had gone on a five-day drinking binge after being jilted by a pharmacist at the firm. It was not clear whether she was among those shot.

Read more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/dumped-by-girlfriend-jilted-man-kills-five-colleagues-20121108-28zbk.html#ixzz2C4FRg1f7

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-first-clear-link-between-violent-video-games-and-hostility-2012-10

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-11-09-russia-reviewing-violent-pc-game-restrictions

Maybe the Russians are on to something
Anders Behring Breivik played WoW 16 hours a day
http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/19/tech/gaming-gadgets/games-violence-norway-react/index.html

A video game linked to another mass shooting in France.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2153218/Violent-video-game-Call-Duty-linked-high-profile-mass-murder.html

From what I read, violent video games are illegal in Germany and Switzerland, yet the Swiss have low violence even though they have vibrant gun culture.

The problem isn't guns or the gun culture, the problem is kids sitting in front of the stupid TV or monitor instead of riding bikes, hiking, and learning about the real world around them.

[hockeynut57]

1. i'm a gun owner (model 1911 and play many fps

1 agree with the premise, kids need to be playing kids games. parents should shoulder all the blame here not gun or game manufacturers

[Trunk Monkey]

15. FPS? NT

[oneshooter]

16. First Person Shooter

[Trunk Monkey]

17. Gracias NT

[oneshooter]

18. De Nada n/t

[bowens43]

2. video games don't kill people. Guns kill people. We should be banning almost all guns.....

if there is any blame it is with the manufacturers and retailers of the firearms used.

[Berserker]

3. GUNS

Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah GUNS Blah Blah Blah Blah GUNS Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah.
Now I will buy more GUNS thanks for the post.

[ileus]

8. Mean ole guns...always killing people.

[gejohnston]

9. if you notice the mass shooting was in Russa

one was in France, and of course Norway. I used no examples in the US. Did you read the links?

[Eleanors38]

13. Orthodox proscriptive prohibitionism: Fail. nt

[petronius]

4. "Gun culture" isn't the problem, it's part of the solution - kids with that interest ought to be

ought with their families hunting, shooting, competing. Shooting sports are right up there with any other social activity as a better alternative to sitting in front of a monitor (says me from my perch in front of my monitor).

But I think banning video games is as weak a solution to violence as banning guns would be; the conditions that lead someone to be unduly influenced by a VG will still be there, and will manifest regardless would be my guess...

[tortoise1956]

5. Some more information

According to the author of the study, the type of game - violent or non-violent - didn't seem to have a significant effect on the aggression levels of the players:

http://www.brocku.ca/brock-news/?p=5955

Gee, maybe the games themselves aren't responsible for aggressive tendencies. What a concept!

I agree with you that today's children don't spend enough time outside. That's not their fault, though. Too many parents trying to protect their babies by wrapping them in bubble wrap.

[rrneck]

6. It's more difficult to ban culture than guns. nt

[ileus]

7. We spend our Saturdays in the field.

[Confusious]

10. Nice try

It's not the guns, it's the violent video games!

Biggest load of Bullshit I've read all year.

The list of "banned" video games in Germany is pretty short

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banned_video_games#Germany

They are also not technically "banned." A person can still order them, download them and own them. There are no penalties for owning the game, or being caught with it.

[Remmah2]

11. A five day drinking binge doesen't help either.

TV and video games are a waste of time and energy. I'd rather be camping, hiking, working in the garden, walking the dogs.........................

I'm not sure which was worse for the guy, the binge drinking or the electronic brain nullification.

[AtheistCrusader]

12. That would make more sense if he ran around with a stick screaming "lightning bolt!"

Seriously, World of Warcraft?

[Decoy of Fenris]

14. Stupid people. Stupid people everywhere. n/t