Posted on: Saturday, September 21st, 2013
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It’s that time of year again where all the scumbags on TV voice their opinions, and those opinions seem to overlook the actual important details…
Actual dialogue from that “show” BTW.
I’m sorry to drag politics into this, but the recent tragedy, AND with the release of GTA 5 shortly after, the scumbags of our time cannot help themselves but to indulge in the suffering of others to further political gain, and luckily for us gamers in the good ol’ US of A, we get the blame! Yep, we’re all scumbags, we’ve got hyper aggression running in our veins, we’re obsessed with violence, and our Nintendo Xbonestation4 is secretly training us to go on a killing spree by shooting the heads of unlucky bystanders! Guns don’t kill people, games kill people!
Members of Angry Joe’s Angry Army, lets do each other a favor: If you know somebody who is depressed and just using video games as an escape from every day life, reach out and talk to them! A good friend by one’s side can really brighten things up and make somebodies day a little bit better. This army is proud, angry, and most of all, STRONG, and the things we do can influence a lot. Never forget that.
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when a game generates the amount of money GTA 5 has it doesn’t matter what these naysayers bitch about, it’s full steam ahead for whatever rockstar decides to do next! Let’s get a torture mini game for GTA online!!
These people are stupid, nobody takes them seriously and even the games they are attacking are taking the piss with them, like Gta 5 which, can be seen as a satire of America. I mean its the gun stores that sell you all the equipment used to do all of the killing and violence in the game, without them all you would do is steal cars.
What politicians don’t want to tell you is that since the induction of video games in society, crime rates actually dropped by a significant amount. I won’t bullshit with numbers I don’t know but I know that statement to be fact. What is truly painful are these politicians that slap our intellect in the face with this half assed, half measured attempt to lay blame on anything they can other than what was the real threat.
The real threat is a lack of psychological treatment for KNOWN problem children.
to clarify that statement a few years ago a guy murdered 2 of my friends. A man and a woman. He was 39 and she was 24 and had 2 children from the man that murdered them. They were split up and had been for awhile. After the fact it was found out that the murderer had done numerous crimes and assaults on the 2 and was set free every time. And at his trial after the sentencing the DA looked all of these victims family and friends and said that the law had a very good way of dealing with traffic tickets, armed robbery and murder but the things in between…… NO.
Good comic, but I would have gone for the blaming something like watching honey boo boo as the alternative and how little the discussion would have changed…
It’s always something Else’s fault. It can’t possibly be the over abundance of unnecessary guns that can be accessed by children far to easily. This is why I hate the republican party… and fox.
Oh, the Republican Party isn’t the only political party to always shift the blame onto something or someone else.
The Democratic Party also does that, and quite often. Neither political party should be given any slack.
The problem with politics is that it relies on emotional appeals and the worst aspects of competition rather than reason and the better aspects of competition.
and NBC, CBS ABC and the crown jewel of liberal stupidity MSNBC are doing EXACTLY the same thing…
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Just some friendly advice Phil… stay away from politics..
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http://www.mediaite.com/tv/msnbc-guest-on-violent-video-games-in-1950s-we-blamed-comic-books/
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The liberal left does it to…… One conservative channel doing it annoys you… but FIVE liberal ones doing it don’t?
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I personally detest games like GTA.. will never buy it.. but would not ban it.. or Hip Hop which leads the pack in vulgar, vile messages.. but come on here…
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a great many conservatives play games too, we aren’t the enemy on banning games.. that you can blame on the TV pundits.. all of them… even the liberal ones..
Government and media elites need Time Out corners built into their offices where they have to stay and wear silly hats until they understand the 4th amendment.
FUCK COMMUNISM! Say no to gun control!Say no to oppression!Don’t ask how many guns have killed but how many they have saved!My home is my castle!
You spelled fascism wrong
Gun control problem ignored much?
Hey, as political posts go… good job. (Although I’m not sure Drudge Report is the villain here. Matt Drudge strikes me as one who plays FPS and survival-horror, himself – although, yeah, not GTA. He might even lurk here.)
I personally am pro-gun, in principle, and pro-game as well. I suspect I’m not alone here.
The problem is mental-illness and its sibling, religious fanaticism. The antidote and cure is human interaction.
“and its sibling, religious fanaticism…”
Yep, especially atheistic religious fanaticism, because when atheists become fanatical in their religion, they tend to either execute bloody revolutions like during the French, Russian, Cuban, Chinese, Cambodian, and other marxist uprisings and kill lots of people yet somehow get away with saying Christian and Muslim beliefs are somehow invalidated due to violent shit Christians and Muslims have done.
Bah,games arent the real problem.They are just a diversion from the bigger picture,that THEY dont want you to know about.Its the pants!You need to worry about the pants!!
I better be careful or I’ll do something crazy, like start throwing tiny critters (like with Pikmin) at animals and attempt to shove the weakened animals into small spherical objects (like with Pokemon) before I use them to battle other animals. I really hope I don’t start running around with a big water-jet (like with Mario Sunshine) and try to wash away paint everywhere like a madman. I also hope I don’t arm bees with various guns (like with Buck Bumble) and train them to do barrel rolls (like with StarFox) as I force them to shoot at random polygonal objects.
Why… Next thing you’ll know, I’ll be cutting-up some edible plants (like with Fruit Ninja) and throwing some flying creatures at walls (like with Angry Birds), expecting the walls to crumble into jars in organized patterns (like with Tetris). Please help me, before I start chiseling patterns into stone (like with Mario Picross) and making profits by selling various items that people need on their adventures (like with Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale).
Cheap attacks on video games come equally from both the right and left so careful with the polarizing as if its one sided. This article in reason magazine is worth reading – http://reason.com/archives/2013/09/23/grand-theft-auto-is-the-todays-great-exp
I love the comic, but I especially like your message after, Phil.
National registry of video games?! Are u freakin’ kidding me?! What about access to and uncontrolled sales of fuckin’ guns?! I think there may be a strong link to mass shootings…
The guy had a history of violence and mental unstabillity and yet 2 days before the shooting he bought a new gun with no problem whatsoever. 2 days later he shot 12 people with it…. What about some background checks? What about some gun control legislation? People like these guys on TV make me sick!
The law in Virginia already had background checks, and laws against people with records owning guns. Check Washington Post’s archive for for “Contractor that vetted Snowden says it also ran background check for Navy Yard shooter” .
Gee, it almost seems as if a faction in America had an interest in ensuring that guns stayed in the hands of lunatics and out of the hands of law-abiding citizens.
Guns don’t kill people, PEOPLE with guns kill people. The gun laws in America are a joke. I know a kid (21) that works at Chik-fil-A that has spent tens of thousands on guns all legally purchased. As far as I remember he has told me about at least 30 DIFFERENT rifles and handguns he has bought. The guy could outfit a small army. If this guy isn’t on some kind of NSA list by now, they are not doing their job as far as I’m concerned.
Oh no! He might use his 30 hands to shoot 30 people all at once with his 30 guns. No, scratch that, he WILL use his guns that way because guns=deaths, period.
You do realize that some people just collect guns for the sake of putting them into glass cases for display purposes?
Much like how people collect dolls or figures of the past for similar purposes.
It’s the collector mentality.
Just because someone collects weapons doesn’t necessarily make them crazy, much like just because someone collects toys of the past isn’t necessarily crazy.
Guns are tools, plain and simple. What purpose someone chooses to use them for is what the matter of concern is about. Some use it to defend themselves at home, and other use it to enforce the law, and others still use it for acts of violence from any number of motivations.
The cause of violence is from within a person’s impulses and desires. A person decides for his or herself whether or not to act a certain way. It’s a choice.
People should be held responsible for their own actions. While I agree that some means of limiting who can get their hands on guns is necessary, one must also account for the fact that a majority of criminals obtain their weapons illegally.
The answer to this video game thing is easy. The Japanese the British the Europeans the rest of the world plays and often makes these violent video games. Yet gun violence in those countries is a fraction of what it is here.
Therefore these games are not the cause of our woes. We must look elsewhere for answers.
That’s correct. I live in Europe and in my country things like this don’t come up at all. I remember in the late 90’s someone tried to link playing games to violence but ultimately failed. On the contrary, it’s a great way of relief. Much better to do all those things to nonexistent pixels and polygons than the real people.
Well, Phil, it appears you have trouble identifying a factitious argument when you see it. This is obviously a parallel drawing to the irrational shrieks of gun fearing nut jobs who demand that inanimate objects be held responsible for every bad event that occurs.
That’s not correct. You’re uninformed if you think Europe is less violent. The stats are out there to see.
Europe is a continent. America is a country.
Actually America is a group of continents (North America and South America). I have no clue what this has to do with anything since I never claimed Europe was a country.
Guns per 100 people in America = 94.3
Guns per 100 people in Europe = ~30
The U.S. has over 50% more firearms per capita than the next two highest nations, Serbia and Yemen at about 0.55 and three times as many as major European countries such as France and Germany.
Firearm related deaths per year per 100,000 people:
America = 10.3
Europe = ~1.72
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate
Do the research yourself Candel.
The simple fact is that more guns = more gun violence.
admitably though while it has less gun violence ti still has considerable violence. however people use that as an argument for gusn because they are stupid. the difference between a madman with a knife and a madman with a gun is the efficiency. with a knife, you are far less productive as a murderer. you cannot kill thirty people in a few seconds with a knife, hell not evne V from V for Vendetta could kill that many people so quickly with a knife, and he is Olympic in his physic and skills.
in Europe gun violence is replaced with more physical violence. meaning it has been replaced with far less efficient violence. violence will never stop, not tomorrow nor a thousand years from now or as long as humanity exists. what we can do is decrease the number of bodies that end up in the morgue.
Yeah, more people are dying, but its less efficient deaths.
Do you tards think about what you type at all?
I said Europe is more violent, not more violent “in this ridiculously specific way that morons care about.”
Well, as dumb as the reasoning is, the shooters aren’t playing strategy or rpg games, they’re playing the rockstar/fps shit.
Just depends how you want to spin it.
if they look realy hard.. they will probably see that most of the shooters went to school…. maby there is a link between gun violence and education? (this is a joke)
I know about what happened, but what was the exact news clip that this was inspired by?
I think it’s this one:
http://www.gamepolitics.com/2013/09/17/fox-friends-co-host-elisabeth-hasselbeck-we-need-national-registry-video-games#.Uj9gM4Z00xE
@ Phill: maybe you should have added a snake tounge to the guy on the right in the first panel…
There was a shooting?
EDIT: Okay, the Navy yard shooting. That’s the one they were talking about.
The military being causal to mass shooting is more probable than violent video games. I mean, remember that scene in full metal jacket?
It’s for reasons like this that since the age of 13 (41 now), I’ve not watched TV news, and TV in general. The only thing I watch TV for now is F1 and a few specific shows.
And, this is nothing new to those of us who legally carry a firearm every day. Guns get the blame all the time. Nobody ever tries to ban big SUV’s when some gray-hair drives one into a crowd killing and maiming people.
I also find it amusing that they harp about GTA. I’m just glad that nobody has shown them FarCry3 lol.
Ow please! People don’t know what Far Cry 3 is. Not the kind of “hard working”, “upright”, “law abiding”
citizensnarcissists that are the ones most likely to fall for this crap.lol, ok I’ll give you that.
Then there is the young man who paid for GTA each week until this past Tues., only to have it stolen from him when he walked out the GS door.
They hafto realaise its more than games that does this shit. We have video games AND guns in other countries too, but this stuff rearly happens outside USA. I know it was one time in Finland but i thats all i know off. I have no idea why its like this but they need to look outside their own country and realise their not the only country in the world.
phill,i realy liked this one. but you really should explain yourself more, we not all from the US. when you say somthing like “recent tragedy” i dont have an idea what you tallking about.
That would be the recent shooting in Washington D.C. just a few days ago, before GTA 5 was released. Just google Washington Navy Yard shooting and you’ll get all the info.
Ow THAT shooting! Doesn’t that have more to do with PTSD than video games? And also, how exactly can GTA5 be implicated in that shooting if the game was released after the shooting?
Or do the viewers just not care/be incapable of distinguishing the order of events?
PTSD? No, people are too quick with that label. Makes it seem like 50% of vets have it. This guy was a Navy reservist and an electrician to boot, he likely never fired his weapon at anyone.
I don’t know that PTSD is the same as hearing voices which is apparently just one of the things this guy had going on in his head.
No, it isn’t. PTSD is a condition in which the stress reaction gets “jammed” and sufferers don’t feel the difference between a stressfull situation and a relaxing situation. It’s all the same to them and that is their base problem in life. Hearing voices in the head is the tell-tale sign of schizophrenia, AKA “madness”. But it can also come up in some other illnesses.
Also responding to Kapow: I have to admit I don’t follow the news regarding that incident. I saw that the guy who did it was a reservist, had a sort of a on-off arrangement with the military (that’s what I got, I may easily be wrong) and previously had some mental problems. I just basically assumed PTSD had a hand in it. So my bad.
do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Couldn’t be more true. If people were looking out for each other the world would be a more sane place.
You’re not exactly showing anyone that gamers are a mature audience to be taken seriously.
Next time you say something like that you should show some proofs… Until then blow away your stupidity
why gamers should be taken seriously and why should they be mature. gaming is a hobby(and for some a profession). just like football, basketball, painting, or music. who are you to tell me what to paint or what painting to watch. who are you to tell me if i can go to a football game or play it. and by the way, football is way more violente because the violance is real unlike the games we play. and you know what, telling someone what he can or cant do when this someone is not hurting anybody is called bullying witch is a type of violance.
Fox News is not a mature audience that can be taken seriously. There are zero reasons to take the high road with these people other than personal preference.
These are the same people who claimed Mass Effect 1 was an online multiplayer sex simulation.
A mature audience watches MSNBC. An even *more* mature audience just goes straight to the Daily Worker.
Reminds me of when people that that Counter-Strike was designed to train terrorists…
Hah! That line always cracks me up. Yes, my console games train me how to be a mean killer, with all the right training, such as how to kill while sitting on my ass, probably with some Doritos and a Coke or Pepsi by my side, targeting with my thumbs.
Mean killer I be.
My observation is that everybody is in favor of liberty to do things that they want everyone doing. And everybody is against freedom to do things they dislike.
Way to completely mishandle a sensitive situation.
Yes. That is exactly what he is poking at. How the media mishandles a sensitive situation.
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