Why are violent video games even being discussed? They have 0 impact

Both the U.S. Army and Marine Corps have conducted studies on why todays recruits are cream puffs,don't know how to fisticuffs and seem to be numb when they take a human life on the battlefield. Violent video games seems to be the reason.

Kids today are inside their homes playing video games instead of being outside playing be it sports, cow boys and Indians or war that could likely end up in an argument and turning into a fist fight. The intent while fisticuffing isn't to inflict bodily damage on your opponent, but who will yell uncle first ?

Ever taken a human life before ? The first time you find yourself in a firefight and you actually know you just killed someone it's kinda like getting kicked in the gut.You just killed a human being !!! Then your brain housing group kicks in. Better him than me..."kill or be killed." Then your military indoctrination kicks in, the enemy isn't human.

Note: Since the early 1990's political correctness today doesn't allow demonizing the enemy.

Before political correctness was forced upon the U.S. military the enemy was demonized. Army and Marine recruits were indoctrinated to hate the enemy, that the enemy wasn't human. Nothing more than cockroaches.

Today millennial as soldiers or Marines who were indoctrinated in political correctness and grew up playing video games are sent to some shithole country to kill Muslims (********s) and they are numb to killing. But eventually it may take more than a few months their brain housing group kicks in and it a huge shock to them that they aren't playing a video game but it's for real.

 

Look I know you get your jollies from pissing on the youth of America but this is just ridiculous. Sounds more like what you want to be true than what is actually true.

 

Theres far more evidence that violent games are a venting mechanism that actually reduces violence in most people. I would imagine that they, like everything else, have an opposite effect on a small minority, but I think in the big picture, we would see violence increase if we took that venting mechanism away from folks.

This whole idea that we should be restricting or socially altering everyone in response to a tiny fringe of 'deviants' is backward, whether its video games, pharmaceudicals, or even weed and guns. Why can we all look at something like cars objectively, and realize that even though a rediculous number of people are maimed and killed as a result of their common use, their overall effect is a net benefit, but we can't apply that same logic to everything else?

 

Gun laws huh ?!

You really should consider moving out of the USA to Canada or Australia or even downtown London in Merry Olde England.

You don't belong in the USA.

You did not get anything out of 8th Grade History or 12th Grade Civics.

Meanwhile you will fit well with the other non-geniuses on my iggy list.

Goodbye.

 

There's a problem today in America that America has never seen before.

What is different today that didn't exist in the past ?

Eliminate guns because back during the good old days there was really easy access to guns. You were able to buy them mail order and no such thing as back ground checks.The AR-15 was on the gun shelves back in 1958 being sold to civilians six years before the military adopted the AR-15/M-16.

So what's different today that didn't exist when America was great ? Political correctness and video games.

 

I reject the idea that the youth of America are somehow weaker or compromised in a way that previous generations weren’t. Before you start looking for causes for your problem you must first establish that the problem exists in the way you believe it does. Feel free to use actual linked evidence at any time.

 

Weaker physically or mentally or both ?

70% of all millennial's who try to enlist in the military are rejected because most are physically cream puffs.

Name one generation before the millennial snowflake generation that required safe spaces ?

 

Not so fast...


"Top 10 Violent Crimes Tied To Video Games"
http://listverse.com/2017/10/28/top-10-violent-crimes-tied-to-video-games/
EXCERPT "With that being said, video games have a long and disturbing history of being tied to violent criminals and have even been touted as the direct inspirations for some of the most heinous crimes that the world has ever seen. These are some of the most infamous crimes tied to video games."CONTINUED

In addressing America's homicide rate, we should look at everything, not just guns.
Something has changed in the last few decades to desensitize people to killing large numbers of people.
I worked in the Juvenile Justice system and found that the young people who spent hours "killing" people via video games were more likely to be violent than those who didn't.
I know that's far from a scientific study but the brains of young adults are still in the formative stage and a disproportionate amount of time "killing" in a virtual world is bound to be a factor in desensitizing people in the real world on some level.

 

How come they have zero impact? It is known that constant exposure to violent media can desensitize people, expecially the more vulnerable ones. How is any good, to let your children watch violent crap like game of thrones, in the first place... they obviously have some impact on the human psyche.

 

That's under today's standards. Not sure how they would do under 1940s standards. (we instituted the school lunch programs because too many WWII draftees were malnourished).

 

The number one reason why someone was rejected from military service during WW ll was for poor dental hygiene that was blamed on malnutrition during the Great Depression.

Are you aware that even today flat feet will prevent you from joining the military even though today's soldiers no longer grunt and hump, they are transported to the battlefield by helicopters and HUMVEE's.

 

If you're nuts anything can set you off. Like every intelligent person knows, its not the tool or the media...its the brain controlling the crazy person. I couldn't shoot an innocent person ever. But a crazy person can. I can't drive my car in front of a train, but crazy people do. I don't drive drunk, but LOADS do. I don't drink so much that I fall over and pass out, but dumb people do it. You don't ban the gun or the knife or the car or the alcohol or whatever IT is. When loads of responsible people can use said item without incident, its NOT the item. Its the person.

 

Of course; remember that school shooting where someone dressed up as a plumber and threw fireballs at people?

Or that one where a young boy threw balls containing magic creatures that killed people?

Translation; "we should look at anything but guns".

It' can't possibly have anything to do with the media instantly turning mass shooters into huge celebrities?

If you can't prove it, don't claim it.

 

No, I don't remember those incidents. Do you have links to them?

No, I meant what I said. We should look at other factors because according to the FBI, homicides are at a 51 year low and there are more firearms in America than ever before(1)
Ergo, the guns are not the problem

I agree that turning mass shooters into huge celebrities is bound to be a root cause behind motivating mass shooters.

I believe most other Posters when they relate personal experiences & will continue to express mine when they are salient to the topic at hand. I also trust that you're not a bot.



(1) "FBI: US Homicide Rate at 51-Year Low"

https://mises.org/wire/fbi-us-homicide-rate-51-year-low

Public Unaware that Homicide Rates Have Fallen

EXCERPT "As Pew has reported in recent years, in fact, the American public is "unaware" that the homicide rate in the United States has fallen by 49 percent over the past twenty years. And while Pew doesn't report on it, it's also a safe bet that the public is also unaware that homicide rates have collapsed as total gun ownership in the United States has increased significantly."CONTINUED