Discussion for article #225963
But…but…but…what about the gun?! Is it OK?!
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NO! It couldn’t have been a video game! People can never been influenced by entertainment media!
Either way, unless the game controller was used to bludgeon someone it is an irrelevant detail.
If the kids had been good Alabama kids and had been arguing over who got the next go at the family Bible would that have made the news?
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…Few people are going to tell you that minds, especially young ones, aren’t affected by the media at all.
The argument is that video games are a marginal contributing factor at most to situations like these.
- A nine-year-old shouldn’t be playing Call of Duty, and it’s not easy for a kid to get access to it if the parent is generally mindful of what entertainment they’re letting their kid consume. If it hadn’t been a video game, I am doubtful that he or she wouldn’t be emulating one of the many other kinds of media that have gun-based heroism.
- A nine-year-old shouldn’t have access to guns.
- Video games, unlike guns, have a value to society that does not involve the destruction of people or property.
Hoping the toddler turns out okay. Well, all the kids. It’s going to be rough on the others psychologically too.
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The 9-year-old told police that he learned how to handle the gun and get it ready to fire by playing “Call of Duty: Black Ops,” according to the news station.
I can’t believe that game comes with a loaded handgun! The GOP is right! We do need to start regulating video games!
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Survival of the fittest, really. That three year old should have armed himself.
Or, less neglectful parents would have gotten that kid a bulletproof blanket already.
I’m just glad that mom and dad, with three kids in the house, had a gun around to keep everyone safe. And unsecured, too, so that the kids could get to it in an emergency! Imagine if bad guys had come busting into that house to shoot someone. Little Ralphie could have given Black Bart a right seeing to!
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Whoa! Ease up there, fella! You can abridge the First Amendment all you want, as long as you don’t go after my right to impose my religion on heathens, but the Second Amendment, that’s sacrosanct. If they want to package a gun with their game, that’s their inalienable right!
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Freedom statistic.
Another gun would have leveled the playing field.
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[quote] Chavez was arrested and police said they planned to charge him with child abuse resulting in serious bodily injury for leaving the gun unattended. [/quote] Wait - someone was actually arrested for a gun “accident”?? WTF, O?
And gun-friendly Colorado no less!
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Look at the guy’s last name. Ethnics aren’t supposed to have guns.
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Playing at killing people with photo realistic graphics and sound = a value to society.
Really killing people with photo realistic reality and sound = a scourge on society.
Got it.
and it’s not easy for a kid to get access to it if the parent is
generally mindful of what entertainment they’re letting their kid
consume
Parent’s generally aren’t mindful of the entertainment that their kids are consuming, and even it they are moderately aware, it’s still absurdly easy for a 9 year only to get their hands on violent video games.
The different between a movie glorifying gun violence, and a video game glorifying gun violence is one is highly interactive and very addictive–you get to pull the trigger, and see the blood spatter.
I’m not calling for a ban on hyper violent video games, but to call a game like “Call of Duty” or one of the countless other modern FPS games as having a “value to society” is a bit of a stretch. I suppose it’s one of the prices we pay to live in a nation that glorifies violence. Is there a fix? Unfortunatally, I do not believe there is.
At least now we know what it takes for someone to be arrested in one of these kiddie shootings: You have to be named Chavez.
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Yeah, one ends up with someone dead. The other doesn’t. Pretty big difference.
So it’s cool as long as someone doesn’t die?
Video games my a$$. What went wrong in that house was that the gun owner failed to properly store a gun. I am glad to learn that the CO police are going to charge the gun owner. Stay tuned for the gun rights crowd to attempt to use this story as a means of clouding the issue when it comes to gun safety…“See, it’s those darn video games. We must first address the culture of violence in our country before we start to reform our gun laws.”
You know what else was involved? A gun. And Children. And someone that owned that gun. And someone parenting the children.
…and the gun is where now…?
That was a shock. Usually it’s just treated as an unfortunate incident.