Shade of idiot Jack Thompson with brain worm here.
RFK Jr. Blames violent video games for Mass Shootings.
Submitted 11 months ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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MHLoppy@fedia.io 11 months ago
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
so the cheap access to assault weapons that NO ONE FUCKING NEEDS is not a factor? Also, the lack of mental health care? Yeah… right…
Cheems@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Remember when Mortal Kombat came out and we all started ripping each other’s heads off and pulling out still beating hearts? Those were the days.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Switzerland has a comparable number of guns as we do, and the last mass shooting they had was 23 years ago
so does he believe that Swiss people do not play video games, or what
DacoTaco@lemmy.world 11 months ago
He was so close to the truth, yet so damn far
tino@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I love that he is telling something stupid, trying to validate it by using a fact that is probably the best way to prove how stupid it is.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Funny, Hillary Clinton said the same thing.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
And Tipper Gore in the 90s.
Xed@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
This man is an absolute moron, him saying this is no different from the uneducated garbage he’s been spewing
paraphrand@lemmy.world 11 months ago
WhatYearIsIt.jpgBosht@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I mean, typical boomer shit from an ignorant boomer. I’m not surprised at all.
RFKJrsBrainworm@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Hey fuck you…I know video games didn’t cause shit…it seems like I ate that part of his dumbass brain.
selkiesidhe@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Played adventure games and fighting games growing up. Never in my entire forty-something years have I even thrown a punch at anyone.
Japan LOVES video games, you don’t see them being brought up for the reason they have sooo maaany murders. Oh wait…
(Now I play MMOs and I never cast a spell at anyone either, in case y’all wondering…)
Cybersteel@lemmy.world 11 months ago
World War 2? Nanking? Unit 451. They were plenty messed up.
freeman@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
So you are saying videogames fixed them?
Lemminary@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They also gave us anime. I wonder what effect that has had on the world. Nyaaa~!
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I played tons of first person shooters, GTA, etc, and I also have never thrown a punch at anyone.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’ve punched multiple people, but I know I punched people before I ever had a game console or computer.
HubertManne@piefed.social 11 months ago
If its a stupid idea. RFK jr. has had it.
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 11 months ago
the single biggest reason for American hegemony is Grenada was pacman
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Binding of Isaac is why I torture children /s
BipolarSilence@lemmy.cafe 11 months ago
So it’s a mass shooting now?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
If you’re referring to the Kirk shooting, this was before that.
BipolarSilence@lemmy.cafe 11 months ago
Ohh gotcha
Colonel_Panic_@eviltoast.org 11 months ago
Kirk was pretty dense.
mechoman444@lemmy.world 11 months ago
God. Are we back on this loop again?!! Incidentally what is the most selling game currently?
A game about a bug with a needle? Super violent.
rozodru@piefed.social 11 months ago
I'm old enough to remember "Mortal Monday" with the release of the first Mortal Kombat on consoles and everyone was CONVINCED that it would result in kids ripping the spines and hearts out of peoples bodies.
Hell I remember when the original TMNT and Power Rangers was bad because it would encourage kids to do "ninja stuff" to the point where in the UK they changed "Ninja" to "Hero" and eventually Michaelangleo wasn't allowed to use nunchucks anymore because out of ALL the weapons the turtles had, THOSE were a no-no. Sword? Sai? that's fine...even the boe! but heaven forbid a child crafted their own nuncucks!
Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 11 months ago
We never left it, its just not been getting as much traction. It also pivoted, to “Video games cause sexual violence towards women”. And yes, GTA was the main culprit as it always has been.
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 11 months ago
Well, if you take away video games we’ll have to find entertainment somewhere
normalexit@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Jfc, this again?
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
He outed himself as an ignorant fool.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 11 months ago
He’s been doing that his entire life.
readyno@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Hey, that’s an insult to ignorant fools
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Yeah. When all y’all are talking about how we need government intervention and legislature to get you what you want?
THIS is why some of us are very wary of that and don’t think “We are just idea people. Other people can make it a law” is at all a good idea.
General_Effort@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What did they tell him about how his father and uncle died?
Probably the truth, just like they told him the truth about vaccines.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
The Kennedy assassinations were clearly the result of the Hula Hoop.
wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Wolfenstein was pretty good, ngl
hopesdead@startrek.website 11 months ago
Is the shooter a person of color? Seriously, ask yourself that. Likely that is the citing factor for someone coming up with fucking bullshit like this. When the shooter is white, the defenders of gun rights will point to mental health. The point I am making is that POC will be a used as a scapegoat to upturn causes in society for their actions while a white person is largely upheld by gun rights advocates as a sign of failure to address mental health.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
To be fair, a lot of POC gun violence is gang related, not mental health related, because POC tend to be stuck in poorer areas and resort to gangs to make ends meet. There is certainly white gang violence as well, but there’s also a lot of mental health related crimes that happen to be committed by white people, probably because they have more ready access to guns that the average non-gang affiliated POC.
Games are unrelated to both cases.
BlackLaZoR@fedia.io 11 months ago
I blame faulty condoms for RFK Jr
ms_lane@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I guess RWS can add a ‘Kennedy Mode’ to Postal2 Redux. (in reference to the previous lowest difficulty, Liebermode, named after Senator Joe Lieberman.)
HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Spoons made me fat!
ms_lane@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Truth in England.
Brotha_Jaufrey@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Christ man, it’s either “god had a plan” or “captain price from mw2 indirectly shot the suspect, your honor”
BanMe@lemmy.world 11 months ago
His office leaked his plans to link video games to behavioral issues earlier this week, so he already had the press release ready, he just swapped some words around.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Even if you’ve never heard of video games, you can tell this is total bullshit by the fact that RFK jr is saying it.