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  NRA calls games a "corrupting shadow industry"

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    Basque

    So...it's not the parents' fault for buying their 8 year old a clearly marked 'M' rated game with blood, gore, [...]

    So...it's not the parents' fault for buying their 8 year old a clearly marked 'M' rated game with blood, gore, suggestive themes, and violence? Seems like the parents just want to blame someone else for their lack of basic child-raising skills.
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    LEGOMatrix

    Only crazy people cannot tell real life from games or movies. He is right on one account, the news media [...]

    Only crazy people cannot tell real life from games or movies. He is right on one account, the news media is irresponsible and glorifies and sensationalizes these crazy nuts, plastering their faces all over the shop and making them famous. I'll not get into the ridiculousness of letting the public own guns for "personal protection" or even having an organization such as the NRA in a first-world country anyway... shameful!
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    Malakie

    Personally, I feel video games AND movies HAVE had an influence on the younger generations without a doubt.. As any [...]

    Personally, I feel video games AND movies HAVE had an influence on the younger generations without a doubt.. As any other military person because as I have seen, younger military are coming in with a completely different mindset not to mention skill capability and familiarity. There is no disputing that. Games and movies have desensitized kids in a major way when it come to seeing dead people, gruesome visuals and the emotional impact of those type actions. Those of you disputing this actually have no factual basis where with my argument I do being that I was active duty military and experienced this first hand. I saw newbie military come in to combat grinning, laughing and joking around about 'taking' someone out. I have seen those who were just outright anxious to see battle. I have even seen the reaction to a few of them that honestly could not comprehend that in real life, you cannot go back and reload the last save when you screw up or things do not go your way... For me that was probably one of the largest shocks.. seeing or hearing someone come to the realization that this is not a video game! The other area game violence and graphic display detail is the affect it has on the moral of individuals. Think about it.... How many of you play games and have NO problem blowing away human beings including kids, babies, women etc? How many of you have literally laughed out loud when you nail a human being with a particularly gruesome kill? You think that is normal? I happen to be one that when I play games I will NOT shoot or take out innocents. I treat any game I play as if my decisions were the same ones I would make in real life. That is moral choice. And it is an honorable choice. One good example is in the Call of Duty Modern Warfare series where you can opt out of a terrorist strike on civilians in an airport setting. How many of you played that part and felt no moral ambiguity when you did? Sorry, but video games and movies DO impact the growth and mental choices kids make. There is no disputing it no matter what you gamers want to say.
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