what a joke.....lay the blame everywhere else but where it should be.......

Like I said before, if media and interactive entertainment make you want to go on a shooting spree, something was already wrong with your brain in the first place.

Can someone slap that guy?

and here we go the NRA on its defensive/offensive.. its not gamers fault that wacko did this.. its NRA friends that bred his dumb behind into existence which is the root cause of the tragedy.. if NRA so afraid of the ANTI-NRA view.. then why dont they admit there's no need for assault rifles.. yeah i still have yet to see an armored plated rabbit, deer, or sheep!.. gun nuts suck it!

"Why don't we protect schools with armed guards?" Because that'd be a blatant waste of resources that should be going to the children's education. These people who want to change schools into prisons and think that would be better for a child's development are either beyond stupid, or trying to get votes from people who are beyond stupid. And I'm not even going to start the "violent media makes people violent" argument because anyone who has stopped to look at any evidence or examined past and present society already knows what the answer is. These politicians are just looking for a scape-goat to let people focus their blame on, like always.

There was a recent study that showed that the US had 15 of the 25 worst mass shootings in the past 50 years. Finland with 2 was the only other developed country with more than one. Japan, where games may be even more popular than they are in the US, had a grand total of zero on that list. So, how exactly are games, music or movies a real factor in these shootings?

The NRA always does this crap. There IS a major gun issue in the US there is no denying it.

see? this is exactly what i was saying. i said that they were just trying to use media as a scapegoat so people wont talk about gun control, and i got a ton of flak from pro gun people, but i was exactly right. thats exactly what theyre doing.

this crap is seriously getting on my nerves

Why did this guy have to be just smart enough to conclude an irrational statement with a rational argument? Now if I agree with the armed guard thing, I seem just as ignorant as he is.

Yeah that's it NRA blame something that is more or an outlet then a catalyst. How about we take away your precious Assault Rifles. I am a gun owner, but also a avid gamer and this pisses me off. Video games have numerous pros while owning a AR-15/AK has almost no benefits other then fun range shooting. The velocity of the ammo is to high for home defense and will most likely go through a wall into a neighbor's house. So focused on not taking high capacity magazines and assault rifles it blinds you into blaming something completely farse. How about the major issue and the more then likely real issue these shootings are happening; mental illness and how our government has shut down more then 60% of the institutes resulting in over half of the prisoners diagnosed with mental illness and kept there. This is a witch hunt and they are no better then the left-wing gun control nuts who don't want anyone to own a weapon besides a police officer/military person.

I agree in that violence is seen everywhere, from the news, movies, games, it's all over.

But to pass the blame around to another medium, to make yours less targeted, is pretty damned low.

Shame on the NRA.

Let me see, gun's kill people, correction, people with guns kill people, people with video games, play video games. While we're at it, did the killer like music, was it Ozzy? Then let's blame Ozzy!

Hmmm... Go figure, I just wrote an articl on this.

Human ideology and psychology is sometimes disgusting. People, especially the media (news groups, politicians, etc.) always feel a need to lay the blame on something. The tragedy in Connecticut was just that - a tragedy. But now the news is trying to pin the blame on their favorite scapegoat: Videogames. They say it was videogames that spurred the shooter to action. Well, news, times have changed. Video game media isn't the small force it was before that couldn't stand up for itself. The people can speak for themselves better than ever before. The shooting was NOT caused by videogames. Here's your proof.

1. Yes, Adam Lanza played video games, just like any other 18-25 year old male does. Wow. Get the president on the line - we have a teenage to young adult male gamer. But what was his favorite game? -Dance Dance Revolution- And if you wanna get to the violent side, -Starcraft-. Whoa. Alert the presses. As you might know, Dance Dance Revolution is about as violent and murder inducing as an episode of Sesame Street with Whoopie Goldberg as the guest star. Starcraft has violence, yes, but I'd compare it to watching two ant colonies at war. Titullating.
2. In the past there have been several studies done on a local, national, and worldwide level trying to link videogame violence to real world violent incidents. These have been done by the Surgeon General, major universities, police forces, newsrooms (heaven forbid), and study groups. They were conducted usually using the most violent and grotesque of games (Grand Theft Auto, Manhunt, God of War, Call of Duty, etc.), and yet each one had the same result. No. There was no link.
3. The news is getting scared. Its scapegoat is fighting back. They're demanding more studies, and video game companies are gladly lining up and volunteering to be first. They have referred to past studies, but politicians turn a blind eye each time, only making themselves look stupid and ignorant.
4. In 2011, video games were declared and honored to be protected under the first amendment. They are free speech. Even if there was some sort of angry politician who wanted to make changes and censor the more violent video games (which kids shouldn't be playing anyway - see the ESRB rating system - yeah, you IDIOT parents who buy your 6 year old Halo 4 and let him play online, shame on you! Get him the heck off and take away that game til he's MATURE enough to play it, as the label suggests!), which there are, he would have to get around the Constitution to accomplish anything.
5. I reiterate. The news is scared. For example, FOX news recently had an entire 30 minute segment where they wanted to highlight how videogames was the "hidden and inherent" evil behind the tragic shooting last Friday. They planned it out well. They'd have two heavily biased politicians talk to Neil Cavuto first to set the mood. They'd come out swinging against videogames and get their veiwers riled up. Then they'd bring in a video game developer to debate the opinion, where they planned to smash him and thereby prove their flawed, flawed point. Problem was, the developer smashed Cavuto instead. The debate was an obvious loss for Cavuto and at the end of it, you see Cavuto recieve a command in his earpiece, and desperately (and quite rudely) cut off his guest. The kicker to this entire thing? FOX news CENSORED it. They REFUSED to air that bit of their so-called "coverage." Now, FOX isn't the only station at fault for this kind of fraud. You don't have to go far to find the same crap from ABC, NBC, CNN or anywhere else.
People, video games don't cause violence. Movies don't cause violence. Books, comics, paintings, and dancing doesn't cause violence. Yes, we have seen deranged minds glean ideas from all of these sources to accomplish their disgusting means, but that's just it - they're DERANGED. They were messed up beforehand and whether or not they had played a videogame, they would have ended up doing what they did. H. H. Holmes didn't need games. Ted Bundy didn't need games. And that is EXACTLY who we should be comparing these people to. Murderers. Because they ARE murderers. Not gamers. Murderers. Something either in their head, or in their upbringing has caused them to be murderers. And it's a sad, sad shame.

-Ricky

I don't mean to sound insensitive toward the tragedy in Newtown in any way. This article is solely to show that 1: Videogames causing violence is a stupid, immature, and copout idea, and 2: Don't blindly believe everything the news tells you. They all have their agendas. Investigate everything.

Linked to this is the video that FOX didn't air of Cavuto. Although I don't agree with everything the developer says, his points are valid, and his victory obvious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYTY843ehkU&feature=player_embedded

I watched the press conference. I think he is out of touch. I been playing games for years and am not thinking that I need to kill someone. Our society is out of touch with whats going on in their own homes. We as people are the ones responsible for what is going on out in the world. You think countries where they dont play video games yet people are getting killed by people brandishing guns, that their people or goverment are going to place the blame on video games. We have crazy people who can careless about another person. They are just crazy and even if you eliminated all forms of entertainment the violence would continue.

Kindergarten killers is a freaking flash game that I think 99 % of people don't even no exists. All there trying to do is shift blame...

If video games were responsible for causing such madness there would be a sharp increase in crime. However, violent crimes rates have been dropping. Millions of people play video games but we do not have millions of shooting massacres every year. In nearly every instance in which there is a shooting like this, the shooter has had some kind of mental issue, they've been suffering from depression or emotional issues or a combination of both. People need to stop using games, movies and music as a scapegoat already.

Everyone is pointing fingers because it is easy. Maybe problems like this aren't so simple. MAYBE, it isn't simply because we have the right to bear arms that this happened. Maybe it isn't simply because Violence is enforced in our culture and entertainment, but GOD FORBID if any of our kids see sex or a boob in there entertainment. MAYBE, a part of it is a collective apathy and a fear to appear to care about things, like reporting crazies and maybe our Gov is so big and inefficient that getting real help for crazy/sociopath/psychopaths is near impossible. And just maybe, out of the 300,000,000+ people living in our country, some of them are intent on murder and are clever and will accomplish it by any means necessary.

Please think.

"Kindergarten Killers", a game I feel no one has ever heard of, looks like it was made in MS Paint. It's also like probably a Newgrounds game or something. That's practically inadmissible.

What an ass. I own multiple guns, and I play plenty of violent video games. I also possess a stable mind that doesn't allow me to think that taking those guns out in public and mowing down innocent people is a good idea. If the NRA is going to deflect at least put mental health care in the cross hairs and leave video games out of the conversation.