are violent video games ruining the youth of tomorrow

[boondocks77]

Originally Posted by lord_carbo

1) You'd need to be mentally unstable to not be able to distinguish games from reality.
2) You'd need to be a violent or mentally unstable person to do something violent because you were influenced by video games in the first place.
3) Games don't teach you how to shoot a gun.
4) Games don't prepare you to shoot a person.

Crime has gone down ever since the PS1 hit the market rapidly (it actually was increasing slowly up to that year), and has been a record low in nearly 25 years. greekanilater, unless you live in England, you are wrong and I'd love to see some data to support what you said. (In England, the problem is gun control. Yes, the almost complete ban of guns spiked crime rates! And don't give me that cum hoc crap, if you even know what that is bwahaha.)

Oh, and violent crime would decrease even less by a huge amount if we decriminalized, hell, legalized drugs.



"So carbo, you're saying that drug legalization, gun rights and violent video games actually decrease violent crime?!"

"Yes."

"You're ****ing nuts."

wut u said aobut being mentally unstable not to distinugish games from reality isnt necessarily true. I have a friend who saw the movie 300 and wants to kill ppl with a sword
and he wuz serious about doing it too im not even joking he isnt mentally unstable, hes in the high school honor roll for pete's sake