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04-06-2008, 03:48 PM
|  | He punched out all my blood! | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Winston-Salem
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 : 43 rd | | | Stephen King Weighs in on Video Game Violence
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What really makes me insane is how eager politicians are to use the pop culture — not just videogames but TV, movies, even Harry Potter — as a whipping boy. It's easy for them, even sort of fun, because the pop-cult always hollers nice and loud. Also, it allows legislators to ignore the elephants in the living room. Elephant One is the ever-deepening divide between the haves and have-nots in this country, a situation guys like Fiddy and Snoop have been indirectly rapping about for years. Elephant Two is America's almost pathological love of guns. It was too easy for critics to claim — falsely, it turned out — that Cho Seung-Hui (the Virginia Tech killer) was a fan of Counter-Strike; I just wish to God that legislators were as eager to point out that this nutball had no problem obtaining a 9mm semiautomatic handgun. Cho used it in a rampage that resulted in the murder of 32 people. If he'd been stuck with nothing but a plastic videogame gun, he wouldn't even have been able to kill himself. Case closed
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04-06-2008, 03:54 PM
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And if there's violence to be had, the kids are gonna find a way to get it, just as they'll find a way to get all-day shooters like No Country for Old Men from cable if they want. Or Girls Gone Wild, for that matter. Can parents block that stuff? You bet. But most never do. The most effective bar against what was called ''the seduction of the innocent'' when this hot-button issue centered on violent comic books 60 years ago is still parents who know and care not just about what their kids are watching and reading, but what they're doing and who they're hanging with. Parents need to have the guts to forbid material they find objectionable...and then explain why it's being forbidden. They also need to monitor their children's lives in the pop culture — which means a lot more than seeing what games they're renting down the street.
If HB 1423 becomes law, will it remain law? Doubtful. Similar legislation has been declared unconstitutional in several states. Could Massachusetts legislators find better ways to watch out for the kiddies? Man, I sure hope so, because there's a lot more to America's culture of violence than Resident Evil 4.
What really makes me insane is how eager politicians are to use the pop culture — not just videogames but TV, movies, even Harry Potter — as a whipping boy. It's easy for them, even sort of fun, because the pop-cult always hollers nice and loud. Also, it allows legislators to ignore the elephants in the living room. Elephant One is the ever-deepening divide between the haves and have-nots in this country, a situation guys like Fiddy and Snoop have been indirectly rapping about for years. Elephant Two is America's almost pathological love of guns. It was too easy for critics to claim — falsely, it turned out — that Cho Seung-Hui (the Virginia Tech killer) was a fan of Counter-Strike; I just wish to God that legislators were as eager to point out that this nutball had no problem obtaining a 9mm semiautomatic handgun. Cho used it in a rampage that resulted in the murder of 32 people. If he'd been stuck with nothing but a plastic videogame gun, he wouldn't even have been able to kill himself.
Case closed.
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04-06-2008, 03:58 PM
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04-06-2008, 04:05 PM
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04-06-2008, 04:25 PM
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04-06-2008, 04:36 PM
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04-06-2008, 05:17 PM
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| | | well, he got the parenting thing right, at least. Too bad he didn't stop there.
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04-06-2008, 05:21 PM
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| | | Yes... for the most part... he's right. But don't blame Cho's rampage on the guns, blame it on the people who saw he was nuts all along the way and didn't get him help.. a jail cell... or whatever before he finally snapped.
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04-06-2008, 05:40 PM
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| | Guns don't kill people, I kill people. 
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04-07-2008, 02:14 PM
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| | | Can we get King to weigh in on Jack Thompson? i would love to have something that entertaining.
I think one quote that i read from a Christian Book of some sort( go figure, Irony and Hypocrisy in Religion) It had something to do with Lust. Its one thing to have a woman who will dress like a whore, its another thing for a man or on looker to visually or physically indulge in the woman. So when you tie this in with Video games, and many of the people who are advocates against video games, they are just saying that they dont want the chance to have temptation, and that they have no control over themselves. Who is at fault here? the Company that releases the material and puts it on shelves, or the mom who lets their child indulge in the video game. Seriously people, get a clue. you cant remove someone else's rights just because you are a retard and cant see your own fallacies.
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