Violence and Guns?

[Ahmed Quast]

He thinks that it is a quote that makes no sense and is illogical since it points to video games and movies as being a more guilty cause of gun violence rather than the guns themselves. He has it as his signature mainly as a joke that is poking fun at how silly the quote is.

Guns are a means to an end. Knifes often do the job aswell. And to use knifes or guns, you need two things: practise and conviction. You can get both to a degree from playing violent games. Therefore, people kill people, not guns. Are video games a good practising field? They are for shooting, but they are not for using a knife, as the user is pushing a button, not executing knife stabbing movement. Even though his statement is false being seen as a necessary factor, it is true being seen as one way to accomplish "success" of executing real violence.

In many areas, people start practicing in a simulator, be it flying a jet or even driving a car. Studies show, that people perform better after having practised in a virtual surrounding. So it is not far fetched to assume violent video games (not automatically violent movies) to be the original cause in the chain events that lead to violence instead of guns.