toddler shoots herself after mistaking real gun for wii toy
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Yeah... one thing you definitely don't do when handling firearms is leave a loaded one in reach of children. Pure carelessness.
That's a stretch. I know we have some looneys out there who'll blame the bad weather on video games, but it isn't even relevant in any way here.
Some nutter murdered his wife "because she played too much GTa4" and people where outraged at GTA and called for it to be banned.
That's right, man brutally stabs woman to death and his defence lawyer straight faced says it was the playstations fault.
It's 'the right to keep and bear arms'... but never mind
Fun sponge
Well fine if you want to keep the poor bears arms that's up to you I suppose
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I'm getting tired of seeing video games blamed for firearms incidents, this was entirely down to the lack of education of the step-dad.
Also; no amount of gratuitous video game violence turns you into a killer.
Your introduction to shooting should be via a club, where you are surrounded by well trained people and are taught what to do and what NEVER to do with the weapon.
As an example Penn & Taller take a kid who plays a lot of violent video games, then get him to fire a rifle which is too big for your 1st go if you're 9. Physically a safe activity, but I think they just scared the poor kid off shooting for life.
In the air-cadets you start out at 13 years old on a .22 converted Lee Enfield #8 rifle, there's no kick at all, it's great to learn marksmanship technique, and it's a nice accurate rifle. Once you're 14 you can have a go at the SA-80 derived L98-A1 (A2 by now); its loud, hot, brutal and a lot of fun to fire. Unless you're a particularly small 14 year old, then you'll just end up fighting with it, it'll win, and you'll never want to see one again as long as you live. I know this because it was 2 years before I had the guts to try it a second time, and it was a lot of fun that time round.
My point is, to kill someone or a class of your fellow students with a gun takes an unbelievably deranged mind and a good level of experience with firearms. No computer game comes close to either of these.
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I'm getting tired of seeing video games blamed for firearms incidents, this was entirely down to the lack of education of the step-dad.
Also; no amount of gratuitous video game violence turns you into a killer.
Your introduction to shooting should be via a club, where you are surrounded by well trained people and are taught what to do and what NEVER to do with the weapon.
As an example Penn & Taller take a kid who plays a lot of violent video games, then get him to fire a rifle which is too big for your 1st go if you're 9. Physically a safe activity, but I think they just scared the poor kid off shooting for life.
In the air-cadets you start out at 13 years old on a .22 converted Lee Enfield #8 rifle, there's no kick at all, it's great to learn marksmanship technique, and it's a nice accurate rifle. Once you're 14 you can have a go at the SA-80 derived L98-A1 (A2 by now); its loud, hot, brutal and a lot of fun to fire. Unless you're a particularly small 14 year old, then you'll just end up fighting with it, it'll win, and you'll never want to see one again as long as you live. I know this because it was 2 years before I had the guts to try it a second time, and it was a lot of fun that time round.
My point is, to kill someone or a class of your fellow students with a gun takes an unbelievably deranged mind and a good level of experience with firearms. No computer game comes close to either of these.
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It's 'the right to keep and bear arms'... but never mind
Fun sponge
Another misconception its actually the right to
