kyew
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I watched a video on another thread with a woman making some pretty good arguments against the anti-2A camp. I was impressed until she blurted out the same "but no one said anything about the violent video game market that causes kids to commit these crimes!" drivel I've heard all over the internet ever since Sandy Hook.
My warning is, distractions such as these do our cause no good whatsoever. Not to even mention it's a moot point (if you agree with your own points on keeping your guns). Allow me to illustrate:
Anti-2A people claim that guns kill; that they're designed for nothing more than to cause bodily harm. We know this is not true. We know that guns are designed to propel a projectile at high velocity in the direction the barrel is pointing. We know that the person firing that weapon is the one using it for bodily harm (or preventing bodily harm as the case more often is).
Now, it seems, we're fully prepared to take up the same fallacious argument the anti-2A people have against guns, only we're directing it toward video games. How is this justified? Video games do not harm anyone. They do not, in and of themselves, cause any predictable transformation or degradation of the psyche in the average, "normal" person. Millions of people (not just kids) play computer/video games and they're NOT killing anyone in shooting sprees. The same as millions of people own guns who do not shoot up theaters and such.
If you want to blame someone, blame who's at fault - the parents, for being too lazy to guide their children through their formative years and allowing them to spend hours upon hours in front of the screen. You see, just as in the debate for and against guns and gun rights, it always boils down to the common denominator - people. SomeONE, not someTHING, is always at fault. In this case, the parents are (or were at the time a child formed these deviant thoughts) responsible for that child.
Myself? I don't think it's an intentional distraction, but focus is directly equal to the value of what you're fighting for. Lose focus and you're giving away the fight. Vigilance is its own reward.
My warning is, distractions such as these do our cause no good whatsoever. Not to even mention it's a moot point (if you agree with your own points on keeping your guns). Allow me to illustrate:
Anti-2A people claim that guns kill; that they're designed for nothing more than to cause bodily harm. We know this is not true. We know that guns are designed to propel a projectile at high velocity in the direction the barrel is pointing. We know that the person firing that weapon is the one using it for bodily harm (or preventing bodily harm as the case more often is).
Now, it seems, we're fully prepared to take up the same fallacious argument the anti-2A people have against guns, only we're directing it toward video games. How is this justified? Video games do not harm anyone. They do not, in and of themselves, cause any predictable transformation or degradation of the psyche in the average, "normal" person. Millions of people (not just kids) play computer/video games and they're NOT killing anyone in shooting sprees. The same as millions of people own guns who do not shoot up theaters and such.
If you want to blame someone, blame who's at fault - the parents, for being too lazy to guide their children through their formative years and allowing them to spend hours upon hours in front of the screen. You see, just as in the debate for and against guns and gun rights, it always boils down to the common denominator - people. SomeONE, not someTHING, is always at fault. In this case, the parents are (or were at the time a child formed these deviant thoughts) responsible for that child.
Myself? I don't think it's an intentional distraction, but focus is directly equal to the value of what you're fighting for. Lose focus and you're giving away the fight. Vigilance is its own reward.
