Stephen King on videogame violence

[Shoes_Buttback03]

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20188502_2,00.html

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[Crushenator 500]

I don't see how Uncle Steve blaming guns for Cho's rampage is any different than blaming video games or books or music or mental illness or social situations. He's just using a different scapegoat. Why doesn't anyone blame the thing really responsible... Cho? It's because this country has totally abandoned the concept of personal responsibility. It's always someone or something else's fault.

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[Tagaziel]

He's right.

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[Wanted Bob]

Yeah, good comment that.

Half expected an ironic twist that he was against violent video games.

 

[Absinthe]

Half expected an ironic twist that he was against violent video games.

This.

I was ready to pounce in rage on Mr. King's words.

 

[Saturos]

I don't see how Uncle Steve blaming guns for Cho's rampage is any different than blaming video games or books or music or mental illness or social situations. He's just using a different scapegoat. Why doesn't anyone blame the thing really responsible... Cho? It's because this country has totally abandoned the concept of personal responsibility. It's always someone or something else's fault.

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Seconded. I agree with you %100 Crush. Nobody wants to take responsibility for anything anymore. Blaming violent video games for some nutjob kid shooting up a mall or school is complete and utter BS. If I had to point the blame at anything however though, it would be bad parenting.

Not to say even the best parents turn out with wacko kids sometimes though.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

Yeah, good comment that.

Half expected an ironic twist that he was against violent video games.

Heh, yep. Good ol' King :cheers:

 

[MRG]

It's because this country has totally abandoned the concept of personal responsibility. It's always someone or something else's fault.

Nothing else needs to be said.

-MRG

 

[i am HOLLYWOOD]

I just wish to God that legislators were as eager to point out that this nutball had no problem obtaining a 9mm semiautomatic handgun. Cho used it in a rampage that resulted in the murder of 32 people. If he'd been stuck with nothing but a plastic videogame gun, he wouldn't even have been able to kill himself.
case closed.

wow, someone with common sense. that's weird.

 

[CyberPitz]

Nothing else needs to be said.

-MRG

Except for another QFT