When are the makers of violent video games going to start owning up to some of the responsibility of what is happening to our culture? I am sure kids who eat Tide pods will have a hard time differentiating between, fantasy violence and disrespect for authority, and reality
There is a general lack of respect now days right from our elders to law enforcement. Why do I have to lock my doors? I was taught to respect all other, apparently those principals have been lost!
Rant over.

When they start getting sued.

blaming the games, is as bad as blaming the guns...placing blame on something other than the guilty party.

Fast cars have killed a ton of people, when will we put horsepower restrictions on these killing machines?
Cell Phones kill a crap load of people, young and old alike. Lets ban those.
Money has destroyed more lives than booze, or drugs combined, gotta get rid of that.
Internet, dont get me started on whats happened since the internet...

rant over.

oh yeah, tide pods, its tides fault dumbtailed idiots eat them. So we must hold tide accountable.

now rant over.

My kids are grown. I'd rather just beat the L out of them for putting profit before social responsibility but then I'd be the one going to jail. I'll just do the next best thing because it's my opinion they contribute zip/zero to society.

If that offends you. Oh well....

For clarification: I was talking about the video game producers. My kids don't make any profit from video games.

This is arguing to put the government back in control of our kids... Something that has worked so well.

Some of these video games are violent and vulgar, no doubt.

I would call on parents to be involved and decide which of these games are suitable for their kids to own.

That way the free market carries on. "Artistic expression" (if you want to call it that) carries on. And hopefully big brother government goes by the wayside.

Mike

mike, i pray you realise i was being superman level sarcastic there

I did Hillbilly. I was agreeing with you.

I probably goofed my reply somehow... I'm getting older and tireder. Lol

Mike

ditto, lol

that chart will never work, its logical. Gotta be something else to blame other than the obvious.

It's the parents buying & renting most of the games. All games have a rating just like movies.
I and millions grew up with violent games and haven't gone a shooting spree. Mind you we were limited on them and had to use the only tv in the house. You remember the ones you had to actually walk to to change the channel and volume.

As I was transporting my grandson home the other night, I informed him that he was no longer allowed to play PS4 shoot em kill em dead video games in my house or in my presence. He's 11 and he will learn gun control under my supervision this summer. Gotta start somewhere.

I commend you for taking an active interest!

Mike

Do his parents feel the same way? If not, maybe you and them need to play the game together to show them how rotten it is! I commend you for taking action!

I can sway my daughter but my grandson's father i have no influence over, maybe his father learned something from his federal prison time that will help him see the correct direction.

if he learns gun control and respect, he can play shoot em kill em dead video games till he's blue in the face. The games have absolutely nothing to due with it...just like the guns have nothing to do with it. Passing the blame yet again.

How do you know what affect a violent game has on a developing mind when combined with mental illness?

Do you just think you know or is it based on your personal experience?

Mortal Kombat taught me how to rip a persons head off, spine attached, and make it look cool(points if you remember the character). Yet ive never done it.
That was 1992...and boy howdy did folks get upset about that. Yall remember the blood code? How many of us who do committed school shootings?

Im sure spine ripping cases are on the rise since that game was the certain end of society back then, lotsa folks said so...
here we are later, blaming games.

sheeesh

Video games hadn't been invented when I was a kid. I was in the Air Force when I saw my first one. A two player tennis game in a bar.

So without video games we played army with toy guns shooting each other for hours. That evolved into bb gun wars. Every boy I knew had a pocket knife and we played mumbly peg and stretch with them. Most kids were part of a family with one tv, one car, and dad earning the money. A lot of people didn't have a house phone. Cell phones weren't invented and a few didn't have electricity or water in the house.

Today we need more stuff. More cars, more phones, more games, more TV's, more clothes, computers, satellite or cable tv. Women don't know how to cook or garden. Everything comes packaged, frozen, microwavable in a can. Men don't know how to butcher.

The result is kids are spending all the time we spent outdoors using our minds to entertain us, indoors watching tv or playing computer games. Mom is working to buy the extra stuff nobody really needs and kids are being raised by their schools and tv and video games.

In way to many cases mom is a parasite living on welfare and dad is nowhere to be found. We can't do anything about women to lazy to cook and working to buy stuff her family doesn't need that is actually probably detrimental to kids welfare, but we can end the welfare that is the number one reason for so many fatherless families.