Violence and Guns?

[Kreekakon]

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 and movies 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.

I'm sorry to have split up your thread but I feel like that this could be a thing that is worth talking about if you really want to get into it in a thread of its own. So if I've messed up any of your posts from the other thread, feel free to put them back in.

Anyways to continue on the talk. I do think that video games do have the tendency to brew aggressive behavior, but I do think it has also been shown in studies (I may have to look this up) that they rarely do affect adults who play them to a point where they would go out and put their aggressive behavior in real action. Adults in this manner while they do get very aggressive when playing games tend to be able to differ a fantasy world form a reality world and therefore would not act on it too often.

It's not far-fetched to believe they may get better somewhat (This is arguable since video game depiction of violence is more often unrealistic than realistic) at using the tools of violence but I would say it doesn't foster too much into their actual motivation in taking such actions.

Another study I read a while back though shows that this is less true for children who can very realistically be motivated by violence in video games to act upon such impulses since they lack the more clean-cut distinction between fantasy and reality that adults may have. However in this case, it is up to the parents to ensure that they do not allow their children to be negatively affected by entertainment which was not meant for them to be consumed in the first place.