Here comes the "video games cause school shootings" nonsense.

That didn't take long.

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Here comes the "video games cause school shootings" nonsense. (Original post)	Odin2005	Dec 2012	OP
Ohio Joe has taken up the good fight,	uriel1972	Dec 2012	#1
I used to have that decathalon game for the Atari 2600	lizerdbits	Dec 2012	#2
Of course it's also coming from the	JoeyT	Dec 2012	#3
In the UK, blaming video games for everything is so Nineties	LeftishBrit	Dec 2012	#4

Response to Odin2005 (Original post)

Tue Dec 18, 2012, 01:12 AM

uriel1972 (4,261 posts)

1. Ohio Joe has taken up the good fight,

but I don't like his chances.

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Response to Odin2005 (Original post)

Tue Dec 18, 2012, 10:16 PM

lizerdbits (3,443 posts)

2. I used to have that decathalon game for the Atari 2600

and I have yet to compete in track and field events in the almost 30 years since playing.

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Response to Odin2005 (Original post)

Wed Dec 19, 2012, 12:41 AM

JoeyT (6,785 posts)

3. Of course it's also coming from the

very same people that blame video games for everything. Which are the same kind of people that blamed grunge when I was a kid, heavy metal ten years before that, D&D ten years before that, pot ten years before that, rock music ten years before that...

Some people just need a simple answer they can rally behind, doesn't matter how unrealistic it is.

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Response to JoeyT (Reply #3)

Wed Dec 19, 2012, 05:21 PM

LeftishBrit (40,017 posts)

4. In the UK, blaming video games for everything is so Nineties

Nowadays, it's Facebook and other social media.

Susan Greenfield, who really should know better, has even implied that the (supposedly) increased rate of autism might be linked to over-use of social media. Considering that autism by definition must be present by the age of three, and few toddlers use Facebook, this is not very logical.

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