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Originally Posted by bronco67
That NRA pile of shit Wayne Lapierre is trying to deflect the argument toward violent entertainment, and he just demonstrated how out of touch he is. He used Natural Born Killers and American Psycho as examples, but didn't do enough research to find out those two movies are actually a statement on violence, and more specifically in Killers, violence in the media. Wow that was a giant fail, and I'll bet him or anyone else in his crew will ever know.
There would be more violence if we didn't have violent video games and movies. Just like if there was no porn, there would be dudes running around with no pants trying fuck every girl they see.
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He might have a point. I myself believe the increased "mass" shootings are a combination of things - drugs and medication we take, society's growing concept that "I am right, everyone else is wrong", and the violence we are subjected to in movies and on TV, and also video games. While this might be fine for the 99.9% of the people, all it takes is one or two who has mental issues, has seen this violence played over and over in his head, AND has access to firearms.
The NRA is also partly to blame here. The NRA used to be about gun safety, less concerned about the 2nd amendment, and wasn't telling America that we need to protect ourselves with more firepower. I went to dinner with a friend of mine who I go to the range with once or twice a year, and he told me that he would go to war with the government if they took his firearms away from him. He is not former military or law enforcement - he owns a window cleaning business - he's thirty years old, lives in a town with a unbelievably low crime rate, and has never been faced with a robbery no less a home invasion. For reasons I cannot understand he fears for his life and feels he needs to arm himself.
I just don't get that.