but muh rights to go pew pew!
/s just in case not clear…
Otkaz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It use to be video games and movies taking the blame. Now it’s websites. When are we going to decide that people are just bat shit crazy and guns need some form of regulation?
DigitalWanderer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Noodle07@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Just go to school if you want pew pew
CoughProductions@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I hate that reoccuring “joke”.
CaptainAniki@lemmy.flight-crew.org 1 year ago
Then get mad and do something about it
AngryAnusHornets@lemmy.world 1 year ago
[deleted]lud@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Or fucking Cicso for daring to switch those evil packages.
ofk12@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t know man, sounds a bit too much like sense to me.
Anonymousllama@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s not popular nowadays to mention that people need to have self accountability, there’s always apparently a website, service, game or social media platform to “blame” for the actions of the individual
Shapillon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How is self accountability incompatible with systemic issues?
Marsupial@quokk.au 1 year ago
Exactly and sites that profit off of hosting extremist content that radicalises terrorists need to be held accountable for their actions.
aidan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Extremist content- or calls to action?
Natanael@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
Why is that an either or?
aidan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Guns have more legislation written about them than nearly any other product. They are heavily regulated. They are not effectively regulated however.
dhork@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This ineffectiveness is directly due to NRA lobbying, and their zero-tolerance attitude towards any new gun legislation. Any gun-friendly lawmaker who even gets close to writing gun control legislation will end up getting harassed (and likely primaried in the next election). So when gun control legislation passes, it’s inevitably written by people who don’t understand guns at all. No wonder it’s all shit!
Maybe now that the NRA is having financial difficulties legislators will have make leeway to enact things that might have a chance of working.
hydrospanner@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s the biggest ball of nonsense speak I’ve read all day.
So we have regulations, the regulations don’t work, and that’s the fault of the NRA…because they oppose more regulations?
Look, I’m no fan of the NRA either but that’s just word vomit.
Also, the political angle you describe is also nonsense. Just look at Sen. Feinstein, one of the biggest gun grabbers in American politics, who’s been in her seat for thirty years.
Getting the party nod or not getting it based on being anti-gun is basically a non-issue. If you’re an anti-gun Democrat, that won’t likely set you apart from other primary challengers, and certainly not enough to singlehandedly unseat an incumbent (not to mention the questions raised by your party leaving you vulnerable to primary challengers). If you’re an anti-gun Republican, you’ve got bigger issues to worry about than the NRA.
No, the NRA doesn’t make it so that gun friendly legislators don’t draft gun legislation, leaving it to be written by those who know nothing about the subject…rather it’s just common sense. A pro gun legislator knows that we’ve been trying that shit for years and it just… doesn’t…work. You’re expecting them to push for something that is not only against their political self interest but also their personal self interest, then blaming the NRA when it doesn’t happen.
jampacked@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Why are video games immune to neuroplasticity?
SCB@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Neuroplasticity is not really relevant here - it’s just the ability of the brain to form new connections. You’d need a casual effect of video games/entertainment toward radicalization inherently and science does not support that position.
Even meta studies are not showing any causal link between gaming/entertainment and aggression
Redditiscancer789@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Anecdotally I play a genocidal maniac in every game I can. I love playing total war and killing every single thing I come across, razing pillaging their villages and enslaving the survivors. I’ve done it since I was a young child playing RTS games like age of empires. Adding up all my video game kills would probably in literally the billions. Can you guess how many people I’ve killed in real life?
jampacked@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Why is every commenter defending it so aggressive then?
Redditiscancer789@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I imagine it feels that way when tons of people disagree with you. But that’s also part of posting in public discourse, if people don’t like what you’re saying they will surely let you know.
5473MP4RRit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What do you mean, “immune to neuroplasticity”?
jampacked@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Basically when you do something over and over your brain rewires to do it more efficiently but nobody seems to think hours of video games or perceived negativity/positivity has any effect when it comes to certain entertainment.
Suru@mander.xyz 1 year ago
I mean… if you play video games for hours and hours, your brain will likely learn to play videogames better? Sure. I hardly see a correlation to mass murder here.
If you believe that action repetition is to blame for rewiring people’s brains to be more efficient at mass murder, why not blame the military, or he’ll, why not just start picketing outside your local airsoft or paintball places?
5473MP4RRit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Badabing. It’s okay. You heard a word somewhere and misunderstood how to use it. It happens.
Anonymousllama@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Is there any actual scientific studies that back up that summation? Because video games have been under intense scrutiny for decades and every time it’s bright up the consensus seems to be that there’s no direct link
TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Because clicking a mouse to go pew pew at fictional characters is drastically different than pointing and shooting a gun at a human being.
Even the most realistic military shooters, you don’t just get a red tint over your eyes if you get shot, you can’t wait it out or use a medkit to immediately be fully recovered, and people don’t respawn the next match after they are killed. They don’t show how gruesome and nerve-wracking real violence it is. They can’t show the lasting consequences of that. People who play video games might not even know how heavy a real gun is.
And then there are things like Fortnite and Overwatch, which are just silly cartoons. No comparison.
Gork@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Video games are not the causal relationship here. Do other countries have gun violence like America does? No. But they play video games just at much as we do.
It’s not video games that are the problem, it’s the easy access to lightly regulated guns.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Because every gun owner thinks they are “the good guys”
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Just wait till I use my gun to save a bunch of lives. Then you’ll see that I’m a hero. /s
ZombieZookeeper@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And most of them fantasize about killing liberals and BLM protesters.
Shapillon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Why always equate gun owners with right wing wackos? It’s getting a tad tiring…
ZombieZookeeper@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Because they think dead schoolkids are a necessary sacrifice for their gun collecting hobby?
lennybird@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Because most are.
Now I know the new trendy thing is for gun lobbyists and right-wing operatives online to stoke the division by pitching guns to the left. I know the intent is to profit from a wider market while simultaneously muddying the waters of who is the most violent ideological group.
… And some ground is being made with this vector, but it’s still nowhere close to comparable.