STOP supporting the bullshit violent culture!!! JUST STOP!!!

[LittlestStar]

Do not support movies, tv shows, or video games that celebrate guns. No more Mortal Kombat, Call of Duty, these disgusting CIS shows, these movies that glorify military men blowing the shit out of other people. Just STOP SUPPORTING the culture in general. We are a culture that glorifies violence and it is so sickening. Its not just the NRA assholes, It is every person who buys their kid Call of Duty and think that its normal for a teen to spend their days blowing away imaginary bad people. From an evolution perspective, it is terrifying what we are doing to our kids. YES we need to BAN assault weapons and more, but a major step for us, as a society, is to reject what the manufacturers are trying to sell us. Stop buying fictional books about military operations and shooting people.

Imagine what a great society would look like, and create that. A great society would never have any of these elements in it.

Our gun problem will not be solved until we, as a whole, reject the culture as we reject the guns themselves.

[Zoeisright]

1. There was plenty of violence in this world before movies

and tv shows and video games. The problem is the easy access to weapons that make it very simple to kill large numbers of people in seconds.

[ananda]

2. Yes, it is time.

Time for all of us Americans to do some soul searching about our culture of violence and gun fetishism.

"The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates

[Bicoastal]

3. Um, maybe you haven't noticed the global economy....

...the entire world watches the same movies and listens to the same music and plays the same video games as we do.

Yet--once again--we're STILL the only ones with the major gun homicide problem.

[defacto7]

4. I agree, but...

although it's a great cause and maybe in a perfect world it could have been better your way, it's not what we have and that isn't going to change in probably the rest of the violent history that humankind has left on this planet; it's in the genes of our species.

It's a great dream though, and in my own little world I do my best to strive for the kind of peaceful and intelligent world you advocate. I also do my best to combat the violence machine in politics. That's what we do.

[Justin_Beach]

5. The entertainment industry gives people what they want to see ...

It's not just movies or video games. American culture glorifies violence. Look at the heroes of American History ... with few exceptions (JFK, MLK, some movie stars and musicians) they are criminals, or soldiers or both - Jesse James, Bonnie and Clyde, George Custer (who was a psychopath and an egomaniac), US culture celebrates the American Revolution, the Civil War, "cowboys and indians", WWI and WWII etc., Honoring those who have sacrificed in war is one thing, celebrating the actual combat is different (and something not many veterans are happy about.)

Then there is sports - WWF, Boxing, UFC, football (to an extent).

It's pervasive ... violence is how legends are made, how scores are settled, a route to fame, glory and wealth.

Turning off the fictional depictions of it is, in a way, just a way of hiding the reality.

[white_wolf]

6. Your argument would make more sense if those games weren't played around the world.

I'm sorry, but this whole blaming entertainment thing is completely stupid. Violent videogames are played around the world and only the U.S. has these kind of problems to this degree. Blaming videogames is just stupid. It's just another moral panic like Comic Code during the 50's dealing with comicbooks. It's inane. Our gun problem won't be solved until we deal with the issues surrounding access to guns and lack of access to mental healthcare. Furthermore how many great works of literature and art must be banned in your ideal society? All of the works of Homer since they involve killing. Oh, and Beowulf is gone too, along with Lord of the Rings and countless other classic works.

[LittlestStar]

7. Where else in the world are assault rifles available to use??? Thats the difference.

[white_wolf]

8. Yes that is the difference so what is the point of this thread?

Obviously the problem isn't violent videogames or movies, but access to assault rifles so really what is the point of this thread?

[Berserker]

9. LETS BURN BEATLES ALBUMS

and books fuck yeah and then lets ban everything. Yes I think you are on to something!
We don't need no water let the motherfucker burn...burn motherfucker burn.

[Odin2005]

10. Oh great, here come all the Tipper Gores wanting to ban video games.

The 90s called , They want their moralistic Baby Boomer outrage based on pseudoscience back.