They're At It Again:Fox News’ Hasselbeck: Navy Yard shooting shows need for video game registry

Deadpool1986

Cook with a Mouth
Joined
Jun 6, 2013
Messages
5,043
Reputation
6,765
Daps
18,773
Reppin
#midnightboyz/ #Neggas-Black & White/ #TNT
New Fox & Friends host Elisabeth Hasselbeck on Tuesday suggested that “the left” was trying to make Monday’s mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard about “gun control,” when what the country really needed was a registry to track video game purchases.

“You know, certainly, this topic has already taken a turn again, the left’s already making this about gun control,” Hasselbeck said.

Co-host Steve Doocy noted that 34-year-old Aaron Alexis was thought to have taken a shotgun onto the Navy Yard and then possibly used it to acquire a handgun and an AR-15 assault rifle from someone at the facility.

“Is this about gun control or is this about a guy who has a history of drinking a lot, playing video games a lot and a few shooting incidents?” co-host Brian Kilmeade asked.

“One thing that happens often in a situation as tragic as this is we start to spread blame where it possibly doesn’t belong, right?” Hasselbeck remarked. “I think we all know where the blame truly belongs, and that would be right in Alexis’ hands.”

“But you talk about this guy’s background, as we look into it,” Kilmeade continued. “He’s got a friend, who said, ‘Yeah, he had an obsession with video games, shooting video games. In fact, he would come over and he would be playing so long — these video games, these shooting games — we’d have to give him dinner, we’d have to feed him while he continued to stay on them.’”

“Are more people susceptible to playing video games?” Hasselbeck wondered. “Is there a link between a certain age group or [demographic] in 20- to 34-year-old men, perhaps, that are playing these video games and their violent actions?”

“What about frequency testing?” she added. “How often has this game been played? I’m not one to get in there and say, monitor everything, but if this, indeed, is a strong link, right, to mass killings then why aren’t we looking at frequency of purchases per person? And also, how often they’re playing and maybe they time out after a certain hour.”

“You go to your room!” Doocy quipped.


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/...need-for-video-game-registry-not-gun-control/
 

SuikodenII

Where's Suikoden VI??????
Joined
May 4, 2012
Messages
13,630
Reputation
2,321
Daps
23,319
I at times feel the urge to go on shooting sprees and I hate playing video games (I suck at most of them)......there's no correlation nor connection :ld:
 

beanz

Superstar
Joined
Mar 18, 2013
Messages
11,923
Reputation
2,420
Daps
25,215
Reppin
DR
im not gonna claim that games lead to violence

but lets not act like they have NO effect on this sick fukkin country

i think they have plenty of effect on certain people but not thru any fault of their own. for example if a person already suffers from mental health issues or is genetically predisposed to mental problems then marijuana can make them crazy, but that doesnt mean marijuana makes sane people into crazy ones. same thing with video games. mental health is the issue here to me.
 

Deadpool1986

Cook with a Mouth
Joined
Jun 6, 2013
Messages
5,043
Reputation
6,765
Daps
18,773
Reppin
#midnightboyz/ #Neggas-Black & White/ #TNT
This is part of my paper that I wrote on the effects that video games have on kids.

Children's rights advocate and attorney Paul Mones, who has been representing teenagers in homicide cases for over 30 years. He notes that if the research about media of any type being connected to violent acts were strong enough it would have been used by every attorney in the country as a defense in teen homicide cases. It hasn't.

"If there was any truly meaningful link between homicide and media exposure from any source, then by now one would have seen a whole body of supportive forensic research being used in our courts," writes Mones. "If any of this research being trotted out now held even a glimmer of hope for a person accused of murder, attorneys all over the country would be mounting vigorous defenses based upon this connection -- but we haven't. And the reason we haven't is that the connection between the psychological and behavioral dynamics of youth homicide and violent video games and violent movies is simply not there."
 

mrken12

Veteran
Supporter
Joined
Apr 16, 2013
Messages
80,804
Reputation
20,860
Daps
300,331
Reppin
Maryland
im not gonna claim that games lead to violence

but lets not act like they have NO effect on this sick fukkin country

Millions of people play these games and maybe 5 of them do something crazy in a year. And almost all of them had mental illnesses that weren't being properly treated. Video games really don't have a strong enough effect to make someone go out and start killing people if they didn't already have those thoughts in their mind.

i think they have plenty of effect on certain people but not thru any fault of their own. for example if a person already suffers from mental health issues or is genetically predisposed to mental problems then marijuana can make them crazy, but that doesnt mean marijuana makes sane people into crazy ones. same thing with video games. mental health is the issue here to me.

Exactly. The guy was hearing voices and talking about microwave vibrations but they want to blame video games for that? :rudy:
 

dallastexas

Banned
Joined
Aug 15, 2012
Messages
827
Reputation
-535
Daps
498
Reppin
NULL
see the distractions they are throwing out,, instead of it being a gun control issue which this clearly is because this guy SHOULD NOT of owned a weapon given his past they make it into their own issue.... register games? really,,,,,,, ok lets do that right after we register every gun
 
Joined
Jun 11, 2013
Messages
40,607
Reputation
6,155
Daps
107,728
Reppin
Birmingham, Alabama
im not gonna claim that games lead to violence

but lets not act like they have NO effect on this sick fukkin country

How much of an effect? And if thats the case so does everything else. We should all live in White houses, with all white rooms and no tv, cell phone, or computers if thats the case.
 

The_Sheff

A Thick Sauce N*gga
Supporter
Joined
Apr 30, 2012
Messages
25,314
Reputation
4,714
Daps
114,864
Reppin
ATL to MEM
Take any male age 18-35 and its a very good chance they have played violent video games. That proves nothing.
 

Data-Hawk

I have no strings on me.
Joined
May 6, 2012
Messages
8,420
Reputation
1,985
Daps
16,303
Reppin
Oasis
He was 34 yrs old?!?!? everytime they bring this up, they skip this part. He was old enough to be somebodys father. gonna ban adults from games too? forget the fact he was hearing voices, lets focus on video games.
 
Top