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bayareamike

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6. I've grown up in the video game generation

Reply to cynatnite (Original post)

Mon Dec 17, 2012, 02:46 PM

Dec 2012

and have played several shooters, a few competitively in tournaments. I'd say that in general they do not. However, I would concede that for a few individuals, perhaps those prone to violence and aggression already, they have the potential for promoting it or desensitizing the user to violent imagery and actions.

That said, myself and everyone I know who play first person shooters are certainly not more violent because they play them.

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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

Does it matter? The problem is that it's as easy to buy a gun as a video game. nt Comrade_McKenzie Dec 2012 #4

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