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"I'm not exactly sure why a closed door meeting about gun legislation would be held with Joe Biden and 20 religious representatives, unless we're finally admitting that people love guns so fervently in the US, it is a kind of religion here in and of itself."
It never really occurred to me like that before, but yeah, I can see that. A lot of people pretty much just full on worship guns in this country. It is indeed very similar to religion, in a way. It has the same sort of unreasonable fanaticism about it that can often be attributed to religion, at any rate.
As for the rest, it's just the same old banal song and dance we've seen a hundred times before. These stupid asshats roll up and try to blame video games (and, usually, only video games) for all of society's ills and want the government to Do Something About It™.
"It's sort of scary that the government would seriously consider a tax like this, yet if you suggested something similar about guns, an extra tax that would go to the victim’s families, you'd have an uproar so loud it would deafen you. 'Guns didn't kill those people!' they'd cry. 'They’re just objects! It was the deranged individual!'
"Of course, video games are also objects, though if you hypothetically took away a killer's access to Call of Duty, or a killer's access to guns, only one of those actions would have directly, obviously prevented mass murder. But there's no video game lobby in Congress, and people don't vote on the fear that the government will take away their video games.
"I hate this debate. I simply hate it. Sure, it’s annoying that video games take the blame, but it’s obstruction of a real issue this country has with a slavish devotion to guns that quite literally costs thousands of lives every single year. Yet you even dare bring this up, and you'll have a hundred subsequent comments about what a terrible American you are for daring to question why we all need practically unlimited access to lethal weaponry.
"And when the next tragedy happens, we'll have to do this all over again."
Yeah, this. The blatant, unabashed hypocrisy that gun nuts regularly display just straight up boggles my mind.
It never really occurred to me like that before, but yeah, I can see that. A lot of people pretty much just full on worship guns in this country. It is indeed very similar to religion, in a way. It has the same sort of unreasonable fanaticism about it that can often be attributed to religion, at any rate.
As for the rest, it's just the same old banal song and dance we've seen a hundred times before. These stupid asshats roll up and try to blame video games (and, usually, only video games) for all of society's ills and want the government to Do Something About It™.
"It's sort of scary that the government would seriously consider a tax like this, yet if you suggested something similar about guns, an extra tax that would go to the victim’s families, you'd have an uproar so loud it would deafen you. 'Guns didn't kill those people!' they'd cry. 'They’re just objects! It was the deranged individual!'
"Of course, video games are also objects, though if you hypothetically took away a killer's access to Call of Duty, or a killer's access to guns, only one of those actions would have directly, obviously prevented mass murder. But there's no video game lobby in Congress, and people don't vote on the fear that the government will take away their video games.
"I hate this debate. I simply hate it. Sure, it’s annoying that video games take the blame, but it’s obstruction of a real issue this country has with a slavish devotion to guns that quite literally costs thousands of lives every single year. Yet you even dare bring this up, and you'll have a hundred subsequent comments about what a terrible American you are for daring to question why we all need practically unlimited access to lethal weaponry.
"And when the next tragedy happens, we'll have to do this all over again."
Yeah, this. The blatant, unabashed hypocrisy that gun nuts regularly display just straight up boggles my mind.
