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NEWS: Video Game Groups Ask U.S. VP Biden to Not Censor Games

I'd like to see people crusade against movies or TV for a change. Would make for a more interesting change of pace. Wonder how far Biden would get if he tried to challenge Hollywood.

American TV is the way it is because of these "crusaders." Look at any show made before 1996, children's shows especially, and you'll see what I mean.

Note here the three justifications for the right of citizens to keep and bear arms:
1. Defense of one's personal rights and those of others.
2. The capacity to quickly raise a corps of qualified arms-holders in crisis situations (they didn't call them the Minutemen for nothing, you know).
3. A protection of liberty from the danger posed by a large, federal, standing army.

You're wasting your time, victor viper. Most of the people arguing about this couldn't care less what the Constitution actually says, or what it means. They just Want Something Done. They want to feel that Someone is Doing Something, and this is the need the Biden is fulfilling, like the good little politician he is.

It's intellectually lazy because people refuse to acknowledge that incidents like Newtown and Aurora are not forecastable and are the products of innumerable small factors, any one of which individually is harmless. And history should teach us that when citizens beg governments to strip away their rights out of fear, things usually end badly.

Um, do you even know what that phrase means? Because applying to violating gun control laws completely destroys any meaning it ever had. There's also the little fact that your draconian controls don't really address the fact that the gun used in the Sandy Hook shooting belong to his mother, whom he murdered and took it from, unless you're proposing to make her guilty of terrorism for not being able to avoid said murder and theft, in which case I suspect you might not pass one of your vaunted psychological exams.


EDIT: You know what, it deserved to be said: the gun control arguments presented in this thread do nothing but use this tragedy to back a political agenda. None of these proposals to "stop another Sandy Hook" deal with the fact that the shooter didn't own the gun - and legally couldn't own one.

EDIT2: If you really want to change the world for the better, do your research first. It does no good to reinforce the lock on the barn door if the horses are getting out through a hole in the side.

I am always amazed when people think that prohibition of anything is the answer to a societal problem. Alcohol prohibition was a failure (if anything, organized crime in America can point to prohibition as a "growth opportunity"), and the same can be said for drug prohibition. However, of course gun prohibition will be different. We'll just weed out those disturbed people. Who? Those diagnosed with autism-like conditions, ADHD, anyone with a current prescription for Prozac or other drugs which treat similar conditions? There goes probably 20% of the population. Of course, this conveniently ignores that there's an existing black market for guns in the United States, so those disturbed people will just have to arm themselves that way instead of going to a sporting goods store (as Polycell pointed out).

You're wasting your time, victor viper. Most of the people arguing about this couldn't care less what the Constitution actually says, or what it means. They just Want Something Done. They want to feel that Someone is Doing Something, and this is the need the Biden is fulfilling, like the good little politician he is.

If this whole "blame video games" for the act of an insane person seems irrational, it is because it *is* irrational. And trying to apply rational argument to irrational people is a wasted effort. There are a lot of scared people out there right now -- scared parents and non-parents, too. They want to see their fears addressed regardless of whether or not it really makes any sense. Hopefully some of them will come to their senses before things get too out of hand, but it's hard to tell.

Yeah, I know. But you've hit the nail on the head here. This whole business is based on fear and intellectual laziness. It's intellectually lazy because people refuse to acknowledge that incidents like Newtown and Aurora are not forecastable and are the products of innumerable small factors, any one of which individually is harmless. And history should teach us that when citizens beg governments to strip away their rights out of fear, things usually end badly.

So many people now have no idea what they're giving away every time something bad happens and they go running to government saying "do something, do something, do something."

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