Lo and behold, some stupid idiot ran an article bashing violent games
after the ucc shooting. The article spreads tons of lies surrounding
video games and video game violence. It's nonsense and I can't stand
nonsense like this. I will debunk it's claims 1 by 1 to show how stupid
it is...
Link to Initial Article:
http://www.movieguide.org/news-articles/its-time-for-video-game-companies-to-take-some-responsibility-for-these-shootings.html
Here is the bs, and I will debunk it below:
"Through research, reports often indicate many mass killers were addicted
to violent video games. Chris Harper Mercer was no exception to this
trend."
Not one trustworthy source tries to say Chris
Harper Mercer played violent games or was addicted to them. The one
person claiming he was was a person sending a letter to the editor of an
Oregon Newspaper, and claimed Mercer played violent games all day, but
the link she used to prove this didn't even say that at all. The idea he
played all day was her invention. No other articles are saying he was a
gamer. This one is clearly making it up too!
"Mercer was known as a recluse who obsessed with violent gaming and
the digital world, even finding supporters on those sites. On an
anonymous chat room website called 4chan, there are messages that talk
about what he was planning to do. A comment stated, “
Some of you guys are alright. Don’t go to school tomorrow if you are in the northwest. So long space robots.” The responses he got back to this were terrifying to say the least:
“DO IT”
“You might want to target a girl’s school which is safer because there are no beta males throwing themselves for their rescue.”
“I am so excited for this. If this comes true then thank you for my late birthday gift anon.”
“I suggest you enter a classroom and tell people that you will
take them as hostages. Make everyone get in one corner and then open
fire. Make sure that there is no way that someone can disarm you as it
possible. I suggest you carry a knife on your belt as last resort if
someone is holding your gun,”
“Do not use a shotgun. I would suggest a powerful assault rifle
and a pistol or 2x pistols. Possibly the type of pistols who have 15+
ammo”
Here are the responses after the shooting:
“THE MADMAN ACTUALLY DID IT”
“That score, ouch. Not even double digits on current reports.”
“GOOD SHOW OP”
“MAY YOU RIP IN PEACE.”
These were the responses by other people SUPPORTING his decision to
kill innocent people! People responded by calling the death toll a
“score,” and how they were disappointed he had not killed more. One
cannot turn a blind eye to the obvious link between violent video games
and mass murders. For the 40th time this year, the 141st time since the
Sandy Hook Massacre, a gunman has opened fire in a school. Hollywood,
especially the gaming industry, should be taking some of the
responsibility for these shootings."
What this idiot
writer fails to tell you is that the board she is talking about is not a
gaming board at all. It's a board for celebate men called /r9k/. It has
nothing to do with gaming at all. So much for this chearing to be the
work of the gaming community! What an idiot. This idiot is bashing
gaming for the work of 4channers that aren't gamers?
"With video games becoming more and more realistic, we need to be
extremely cautious as to what our youth and young people are being
exposed to on a daily basis. Fantasy violence can leave a troubled mind
craving more and more until they act out in reality. There is a violent
cultural script that too many children are influenced to live out. To
dig further, here is a list of some of the most violent horrible
killings in the past few years; all of these killers had an obsession
with violent video games."
Hello. Games aren't getting more realistic, that's bullshit, debunked
here...
And "Fantasy violence" doesn't make people do real life violence at
all, despite her bullshit claim that it does. The claim that violent
games can make people addicted to them then commit the real life act's
in them is a bullshit claim made up by the hack psychologists in the
90's on talk shows. It's complete bullshit. Her list of violent killers,
has a lot who weren't obsessed with violent games either...
"Here’s a list of the mass murders linked with video Games:
1. Adam Lanza, Sandy Hook Elementary, was a frequent player of
violent first-person shooter video games. It was said his existence
largely involved playing violent computer video games in a bedroom."
What this idiot doesn't say is Lanza played more non-violent games than violent ones.
"2. James Holmes, went on a rampage in a movie theater showing
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES in Aurora, Colorado in July 2012, He was a
frequent player of violent video games including “World of Warcraft,” an
infamously addictive role-playing game."
HELLO! World
of warcraft is a sword fighting game! How does that lead to GUN
VIOLENCE? Also James Holmes played a lot of "Violent Games" Like Guitar
Hero. Right. Like that's a violent game now...
"4. Eric Harris, based on his journal, a panel of
psychologists, psychiatrists, and FBI agents point to Harris’ contempt
for others and his total lack of empathy and conscience as evidence of
his psychopathic tendencies. He also enjoyed violent video games."
Another fucking idiot trying to blame Columbine on Doom. Fuck you!
Oh
BTW, Columbine was a revenge crime designed to kill cops for raping
Harris during a 1998 bomb making materials arrest where the Sherriff of
CO Sexually abused him.
"5. Elliot Rodger, killed 7 young men and women including
himself. He was hooked on violent video games from a young age from his
own admission, hiding himself in “the World of Warcraft,” a place where
he felt comfortable and secure."
Again, World of warcraft can't cause gun violence, It's a sword fighting game!
"
8. Anders Behring Breivik, 68 shot dead at a youth camp of the
Norwegian Labor party, another 8 in a bombing of government buildings
According to the judgment rendered against him, he liked playing violent
games."
What this piece of shit article doesn't say is
that Anders was an anti-islamic terrorist who killed people for their
religion. He admitted he trained on Call of Duty, but mostly he played
World of Warcraft, again a sword fighting game! Also this idiot listed
his name twice, once with his middle name once without to make it look
like there were TWO Anders Breivik's, when there are really only one
Anders.
"9. Michael Carneal, shot girls as they prayed in a prayer
group. Carneal never moved his feet during his shootings, and never
fired far to the left or right, but instead fired only once at each
target that appeared, just as a player of video games maximizes his game
score by shooting only once at each victim, in order to hit as many
targets as possible."
More bullshit claims. This time
this writer makes up a bullshit claim about Paducah. Video games do not
train people to maximize their score this way. The game Carneal played
was Doom, which HAD NO SCORE IN IT. In fact no games in 1997 had a
system with a score that did what this pile of crap writer claims it
did.
"Other killers have been hooked on violent video games too and have a
warped sense of what’s real and what’s not, thinking that real life is
just like a video game."
Where's the proof to prove
this? Nowhere! In fact this idiot makes up so much shit she should be
ashamed for herself, a fucking zealoty anti-gamer cockwad is what she
is!
"Numerous studies have linked violent behavior to consumption of violence in video games."
No... NO Studies prove violent games cause violent behavior. Tons of
Flawed studies prove they cause aggression. But Aggression =/= Violence. She is a liar to say it does.
"Recently, researchers at Ohio State University conducted a study and
concluded that, “People who have a steady diet of playing these violent
video games may come to see the world as a hostile and violent place.”
Brad Bushman, professor of communication and psychology at OSU,
continues, “These results suggest there could be a cumulative effect” in
making video game players more aggressive and violent over the long
term as well as over the short term.
This is just one of thousands of studies about depictions of violence
in the mass media, including video games, that come to similar
conclusions."
This study author, Brad Bushman, is one
of the most flawed study authors out there. He is a fucking anti-gaming
quack, and his studies are known to be false. No trustworthy studies
have been done that say violent games cause violence. They are all being
funded by groups like the "Center for Successful Parenting" who say in
their mission statement that their goal is to get the health industry,
the government and the media to get rid of media violence. These studies
are NOT to be trusted.
"Of course, this doesn’t mean that ALL children, teenagers and young
adults playing video games, even violent video games, will act out
violently, but when will people realize that the most dangerous weapon a
person yields is their mind? The more minds corrupted with violence,
the more dangerous society becomes."
Bla-Blah-Blah Save the children, Blah-Blah-Blah FUCK YOU!
EDIT: Another fucking idiotic newspaper ran the SAME ARTICLE:
http://www.charismanews.com/culture/52651-14-mass-murders-linked-to-violent-video-games
EDIT: 3 More sites running the same idiotic article:
http://www.yournewlifeinchrist.com/14-mass-murders-linked-to-violent-video-games/
http://thesechristiantimes.com/2015/10/16/14-mass-murders-linked-to-violent-video-games/
http://myinforms.com/en-us/a/17713783-14-mass-murders-linked-to-violent-video-games/
EDIT 3: When trying to post a rebuttal, it got deleted twice at the sites... It's stupid... They are trying to censor me when I am trying to tell the viewers that the article is false...I had to censor this article to prevent Libel when I decided to post a link to this article in a comment, not knowing that risks libel, fucking crazy....
