I'd be willing to bet several paychecks that the number of mass shootings in this country has climbed in direct proportion to the number of assaults rifles in circulation. The idea that increased access to firearms is causing the school shooting problem is not supported by facts. We should pursue scientifically supported solutions to gun crime problems, or any problems. We actually know that those are people who tend to commit violent crimes, with firearms if they have them. Some so-called "common sense" measures like taking guns away from perpetrators of domestic abuse are not in fact common sense anything, but ideas whose value have been proven by the scientific process. We do have to solve the gun violence problem. Meanwhile, it will cause problems for people who depend on those firearms, and it will be a boon to those who wish to oppress others en masse. And even if on that bullshit basis you should reduce school shootings by reducing access to firearms, you will still have that problem causing problems. Something else is causing it, and by focusing on access to firearms, or even less meaningful bullshit like total number of guns on the country, you are willfully avoiding seeking the real cause in favor of feel-good bullshit. So we know absolutely, definitely, conclusively by the numbers that what is increasing the occurrence of these shootings is fundamentally not an increase in access to firearms. Reducing access to guns might well reduce school shootings, but young people absolutely, definitely, conclusively by the numbers have less access to guns today than they have at any point in American history. Are you very fucking stupid? Because you're acting like it. And that was the argument, and it was very fucking stupid. If the argument is that an increase in mass shootings is due to an increase in juvenile access to firearms then we have to look at whether that is true or not, and we find that it is not at all true. Fact is the US not only has more guns in civilian's hands than it has people That's a very slanted way of looking at things. The number of households with guns is continually shrinking, and guns mostly went from being stored in drawers and cabinets to being stored in lock boxes and safes over the last century In the '90s, "There was really no pushback," said Chris Ferguson, Stetson University's co-chair of psychology, who has studied violent video games' impact on gamers for about 20 years.įewer kids have guns now than they used to. For more than 20 years years, the idea that video games like Doom somehow spurred these heinous shootings held sway in popular culture. Most coverage of Cruz's comments (and Fox's interview) were in the service of invalidating the question itself: Decades of research have shown no connection between playing violent video games and committing violent acts.
Zapor dodged, instead citing the dissolution of community bonds. A Fox News host asked his guest, Arizona State University criminal justice professor Bernard Zapor, whether violent video games' heightened realism contributed to an increase in mass homicides. It was how little traction it received in the mainstream media. In addition to "broken families" and "declining church attendance," he said, "desensitizing the act of murder in video games" has contributed to the epidemic of mass shootings. These tragedies, he said in a speech at a National Rifle Association convention, were a mirror of our culture, and specifically, where our culture is failing. In late May, after two such attacks - in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, it was Texas Senator Ted Cruz. An anonymous reader shares a report: On the painful occasion of a mass shooting in the US, it has become customary for some politician or pundit to point an accusatory finger at video games.
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