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Reggie Fils-Aime comments on "the ill-informed" who are blaming gun violence on video games
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Tell me when you meet one.
Anyway
Edit: pretty clearly fake bc lack of evidence, just thought it was funny my b
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It baffles me that after all these shootings literally every person can still have access to a gun. Blaming video games is just sickening and a lie. But it's all about the Benjamin's. Young lives destroyed with the squeeze of a trigger.
Good for him for telling the truth. A pixel on a screen doesn't end lives. It's could be harmful when the person viewing does not have enough cognitive capabilities to see a game for what it is. But you still need bullets and guns to go on a murder spree. No more access, no more shootings.
Good for him for telling the truth. A pixel on a screen doesn't end lives. It's could be harmful when the person viewing does not have enough cognitive capabilities to see a game for what it is. But you still need bullets and guns to go on a murder spree. No more access, no more shootings.
Wait, did he actually say that? Had hoped there was a video or sound bite, but it's just an image.
lol yeah, went back and saw those, loving the responses to that guy.
i like it that he is defending his former industry even after he retired! and yes violent video games may have effects but gun accessibility has way more effects
Basically:
- You need a license (gained through gun safety training and a background check) to own any guns.
- Handguns and semiautomatics need to be registered.
- You can't carry guns outside without a good reason (e.g. you're a police officer and you've been issued one).
The man doesn't even work in videogames anymore and he's doing awesome shit like this.
What a boss.
What a boss.
I have to see a video of this. That's too stupid to comprehend.
I figured. It's impossible to be ill-informed.
Wasn't aware that gun violence is relatively high in Canada as well, also didn't expect the UK to be so much lower than e.g. Italy.
Gun violence is hardly a topic in western / central Europe anyway (terrorist attacks in France aside).
Thank you Reggie btw.
It's sad that facts mean very little to the people who jump to these easy scapegoats. Easier to blame a video game than to consider giving civilians access to deadly weapons might not be a good idea.
Boggles the mind, honestly, the lengths people will go to defend and justify what they want.
Well done to Reggie, always a legend.
Boggles the mind, honestly, the lengths people will go to defend and justify what they want.
Well done to Reggie, always a legend.
"Hyper violent FPS games" are extremely popular everywhere yet the US is literally the only developed country where this shit happens regularly.
Hell, it isn't even the only country with both that AND guns. We have guns in Spain too. As far as I know guns can be legally owned in the UK and Canada as well.
It's not about videogames and it's not about "guns or no guns", it's about having sane gun legislation. About a system of gun control that keeps guns in the hands of people who actually have a good reason to have them (sport shooters is one example) and who can reasonably demonstrate on a semi-regular basis they're not fucking nuts.
In my head I just imagine Reggie on stage and on one side of the crowd one dudes tells him to stick to games and some other random dude in the theatre yells out to the other guy to shut the fuck up.
My in head lore gave me quite the chuckle.
and still, those people exist everywhere in the world and, still, mass shooting is (almost) only happening in USA.
We both know they either wouldn't read them, dismiss them because it provided information that works against the position they take, or both.
Yes, because the lack of knowledge is making republicans parrot pro-gun talking points.
The sad thing for the USA is that there is such a proliferation of weapons that, even if the most stringent of gun laws were brought in, it would probably be decades before any change had an appreciable effect. And in the interim, while guns were still everywhere, every time there was a mass shooting (post-gun law changes), and that would still be often, you'd have the NRA screaming that clearly the gun laws didn't work and should be changed back.
*America after banning violent videogames, clearing up illegal drug problems nationwide, sorting out the economy, healthcare, poverty, literally addressing every societal issue but the fact that you can just go buy a gun*
"Why are we still seeing mass shootings?"
"Why are we still seeing mass shootings?"
I vaguely recall that suicide being included in gun violence is one of the reasons why Canada's is higher than you'd expect. Canada also has way more guns than Canadians tend to think - there are a lot of the in rural areas and not so much in urban ones.
Common sense and something the rest of the world is very aware of. Bizarre and frightening to see so many American replies to his tweet disagreeing that gun access is the problem.
But great to see Reggie using his platform to speak out and not pull any punches on such an important issue.
But great to see Reggie using his platform to speak out and not pull any punches on such an important issue.
fantastic to see reggie posting the hard facts. all game companies should do it too, and don't tolerate video games being blamed every time when we all know the real reason.
So the US owns nearly half the worlds guns......fuck me,I knew it was bad over there......but not that bad.
Banning guns in the US is about as likely as banning tea drinking over here in the UK....in other words....it ain't gonna happen.
Banning guns in the US is about as likely as banning tea drinking over here in the UK....in other words....it ain't gonna happen.