EC1
NES Member
imo the video quality of todays' first person shooter games desensitizes some people with respect to violence, in addition the current graphic violence in movies has served the same purpose, both without any consequences .
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The video game comment(s) are getting old. How they hell can anyone even have that asinine thought run through their head?
Considering the age demographic of the shooters and the video game demographic, the overlap is virtually 100%. That's like saying drinking water causes shootings, since 100% of shooters drank water.
MAYBE you could have made this argument in the early 90s. Maybe, grasping at straws. But now it makes absolutely no sense.
Same. Started out with sega genesis + computer games (Doom, half-life etc) in the 90s all the way through 2013ish with PS3 (first person shooters, GTA etc). Haven't played since and I never harmed/killed anyone.I played so many violent video games as a kid, you'd think I would have turned out to be a psychopath. Not so much.
I really want to hear/see Mr LaPierre giving his reply assuming he’s done shopping for a new suit today. Will it be a plea for more donations or throwing people under the bus and then asking for
More donations?
Same. Started out with sega genesis + computer games (Doom, half-life etc) in the 90s all the way through 2013ish with PS3 (first person shooters, GTA etc). Haven't played since and I never harmed/killed anyone.
The four entities I've been donating to for years are NRA, Ducks Unlimited, GOAL and Comm2A. I am really going to have to think hard about whether or not I still want to contribute to NRA. If I stop though, I may have to give up my membership to one (or possibly both) of the gun clubs I currently belong to. That would suck. :/
I think you misread most NES members here. All Trump did here is appease the dems and sound presidential, with his, something has to be done talk. That's what America wants to here the President say. Don't hold your breath waiting for Trump to institute more gun control than we already have. I've said it before ad I'll say it again. He gave up bump stocks because he was advised that overall none of us gave a rip about having a bump stock in the first place. I thought it was a great "political" move for him to give up something that you and I didn't even want. While we are all extremely thinned skinned about losing any 2A ground. Any ground at all. Losing the bump stock didn't really affect the gun toting masses one bit. Try that with AR'S though, and any President will buy himself a second revolution, in his own backyard.
Good point. Online video games didn't really take off (for me anyway) until I had a PS3 and played COD etc. By then I was in my early 20s. And back when I played video games on Sega, N64, PS2 etc. I actually did go outside and interact with friends etc. A LOT different nowadays.But I would venture to guess that as a kid you also didnt live online
that you probably were not one of the kids that when they did get out sat around as a group silently texted each other and others instead of interacting with each other.
IOW....the video game was a game.....it didnt become your life or a very large portion of your percieved reality
Usually you are
Now you're advocating for continuation of the progressive approach to this......cloward and piven
Overwhelm the system by continued support of progressive policy that continues to release criminals onto the streets to commit crimes against the rest of us
I really want to hear/see Mr LaPierre giving his reply assuming he’s done shopping for a new suit today. Will it be a plea for more donations or throwing people under the bus and then asking for
More donations?
Oh man, Goldeneye on N64 was beyond addicting. I can't even imagine the number of weeks possibly months spent playing that game with friends and family. I'll never forget playing that for the first time circa 1997? Got a N64 for christmas that year and coming from Sega, I was absolutely shocked by the graphics and fun factor etc.I had Genesis. Before that I had the original 1987 Sega Mastersystem! Gangster Town was a cool first person shooter game for that system. But into the 90's I played a lot of Mortal Kombat, Tekken, Lethal Enforcers (at the arcade), Bond on N64 (I was pretty much addicted to that game). By the time GTA came out I was getting away from video games and trying to get back to more time spent outdoors. Who knows what I could have turned into had I continued on the path of stealing cars and beating up hookers on GTA.
From trumps twitter feed this morning:
“We cannot let those killed in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, die in vain. Likewise for those so seriously wounded. We can never forget them, and those many who came before them. Republicans and Democrats must come together and get strong background checks, perhaps marrying........this legislation with desperately needed immigration reform. We must have something good, if not GREAT, come out of these two tragic events!”
Bob
This. He's also tying illegal immigration to any proposal knowing that the democrats will oppose it then blaming them for any inaction.
Oh man, Goldeneye on N64 was beyond addicting. I can't even imagine the number of weeks possibly months spent playing that game with friends and family. I'll never forget playing that for the first time circa 1997? Got a N64 for christmas that year and coming from Sega, I was absolutely shocked by the graphics and fun factor etc.
Please, do not miss my point entirely. You will keep your guns in the same way how you would keep your old flip phone. Nobody will be knocking on your doors.......Everything else will be gone. Ranges, forums, manufacturers, and if you will raise your voice you will be the leftover white nutzi which needs a treatment.
LOL, we thought Pong was great!! Think about how lame it actually was. Then Pacman came out and it was off to the races. Anyway, I never played a video game after the mid seventies.Oh man, Goldeneye on N64 was beyond addicting. I can't even imagine the number of weeks possibly months spent playing that game with friends and family. I'll never forget playing that for the first time circa 1997? Got a N64 for christmas that year and coming from Sega, I was absolutely shocked by the graphics and fun factor etc.
National ERPO and no more individual sales with an FFL involved ...meh.
Video games as a tool/entertainment is one thing
When the tool playing the game has no life/social interactions with people then it becomes their reality to some degree