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1. They don't create it.

Mon Dec 17, 2012, 02:40 PM

Dec 2012

These games don't "cause" violence, they reveal our cultural tendency for committing it.

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Do you think video games promote guns and gun violence? [View all] cynatnite Dec 2012 OP

They don't create it. zipplewrath Dec 2012 #1

I agree. bayareamike Dec 2012 #7

And the 2nd is a reflection of our history zipplewrath Dec 2012 #10

I honestly don't know. While I don't think they help an TwilightGardener Dec 2012 #2

I will say, also thinking of my own sons, that the interest in TwilightGardener Dec 2012 #9

I think they promote the fantasy of gun violence. Same as the movies do. n/t Egalitarian Thug Dec 2012 #3

Certainly not enough to justify an attack on the First Amendment. backscatter712 Dec 2012 #5

I've grown up in the video game generation bayareamike Dec 2012 #6

I see the sane majority is ahead of the pearl-clutchers. Odin2005 Dec 2012 #8