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In reply to the discussion: Do video games make you want to shoot people?????????? [View all]LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)66. Every time my kid spends $60 on one and beats it in two days.
And don't get me started on game systems only coming with one controller now.
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These games and that stupid fake wrestling on TV are the reason we don't allow free play at recess.
proud2BlibKansan
Dec 2012
#16
That was the best game! We bought it for our school and had years of great lessons from it.
proud2BlibKansan
Dec 2012
#18
You can believe what you will, until the private seller loop hole is closed
DainBramaged
Dec 2012
#28
I'm SURE ATF has covert agents at every gun show to keep the purchases legal
DainBramaged
Dec 2012
#74
Not really, but I do want to drive a Lamborini through a closed track in St Petersburg tho...
Taverner
Dec 2012
#24
Panicked news agencies and cherrypicked studies says so, so it must be true. (nt)
Posteritatis
Dec 2012
#58
True, violence on TV, the internet, and the movies is NEVER blamed, only video games
DainBramaged
Dec 2012
#52
Only PVP (player vs player) and then I want to strangle the person with my bare hands n/t
Blaukraut
Dec 2012
#54
Guys? We need to be talking about how to stop children from being killed, remember?
randome
Dec 2012
#67
Well sadly for you freedom of speech and expression is much more important than gun rights.
white_wolf
Dec 2012
#99
You mean VIOLENT video games. I don't think Mario Bros. makes people react violently, but yes,
Honeycombe8
Dec 2012
#78
Australia had a mass killing problem, but no more. It banned violent video games & assault weapons.
Honeycombe8
Dec 2012
#85
I am tired of people acting like there was like virtually no violence before video games.
Kalidurga
Dec 2012
#79
If I had a room full of Glocks and grenades it wouldn't make me want to use them on people
Whisp
Dec 2012
#83