"The reason, though the thought behind it is somewhat faulty, that parents and activists go after the video game industry and not the firearm industry is because they want to get rid of the root of the problem, not because they're afraid of men with guns.
Even if the comic is funny.
Certainly, it would be a much better thing to have kids that wanted nothing to do with mangling each other all together, than to have kids that wanted to do violence but couldn't.
Now, if you accept that video games are the thing that makes children want to hurt each other, than getting rid of the video games would be better than getting rid of the guns.
Of course, it doesn't really make sense to blame the video games, but then the parents and activists would have to look for a more complex, more personally responsible solution."
""Making money is hard sometimes, and if you convince yourself that you need to make money (in order to eat, or fund the next game, or whatever), then you are automatically on a slippery slope..."
Hmm."
"It doesn't seem to me that he's equating playing video games or TV watching to underachievement, but rather that video games and TV shouldn't be the only things that the children are occupied with."
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