Democrats aren't much interested in politicians who blame video games for gun violence. This isn't the 90s anymore.
Then how do you explain that basically the only thing the Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik did in the entire year before his mass killings was playing video games? No connection whatsoever? And it wasn't just any kind of video game. It was the single most violent there is out there. The combination mental illness and violent video games can be pretty deadly, just as the combination of mental illness and gun possession can be pretty lethal too.
No, just no.
I've played Grand Theft Auto V for WEEKS STRAIGHT before. Never in that time did I ever seriously think about going out to the gun store, getting a sweet ass assault rifle, and shooting up a school. Now, I have thought about getting into a fight with meth addicted bikers, huffing some super glue, having sex with four different hookers to get back at my wife for cheating on me the smurf smurfing smurf she is, getting some rock cocaine, and even robbing a Jewelry store so I wouldn't have to work for the next two years so I could pursue my Master's degree, but shooting up a school full of kids?
Now the few times I have held a Nerf gun? Yeah, I obviously don't trust myself with an actual gun so I don't blame people who are in support of gun control policies. I mean yeah I wouldn't propose them myself nor am I a huge advocate of them, but obviously a gun culture like we have in America is just not right and needs addressing.
But of course you are talking about people with mental illnesses, which really proves you don't know what you are talking about. People with mental illnesses often go psycho over teddy bears, barbie dolls, Jodie Foster, the color of the sky, gluten free spaghetti, and a bunch of other completely totally random GD things that wouldn't make sense to any regular person. Trying to lay it all down on violent video games, which are extremely popular in nations with very little violent crime compared to the US, is just wrong. Video games if anything help people channel their innermost psychological urges into the game, thus giving them an avenue to take out much pent up aggression, rage, and anger. I could just as easily argue that the downtrend in crime over the past thirty years SINCE THE 80S correlates to the rise in video game technology beyond simple Mario and Luigi smurf into all out Goldeneye and Fallout 3 smurf that allows kids to kill people and feel good about it but not in real life.
