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Nation Fondly Recalls When Just Regulating Video Games Seemed Like Solution To Gun Violence

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WASHINGTON—Faced with seemingly ceaseless debates over how to curb the rampant number of shootings occurring across the country, millions of Americans took a brief moment Thursday to fondly look back at a time when simply regulating video games seemed like the best solution to gun violence. “You know, there was a brief period when slapping a ‘Mature’ sticker on the cover of a violent video game was the single, clear-cut way to end all gun-related deaths in America,” said Annalise Wexler of Los Altos, CA, who went on to nostalgically reminisce about the then-widely held belief that prohibiting the sale of first-person shooter games to children without parental permission appeared to be a totally concrete and comprehensive preventative measure against mass shootings. “Forget trying to figure out how to expand access to mental health services, enforce more stringent background checks in all 50 states, or restrict the sale of military-grade assault weapons and bulk ammunition—back then we figured we could just ban death metal music and call it a day. Man, those were good times.” Many Americans also admitted to reporters that they desperately miss the bygone era when they could blame anyone but themselves for perpetuating gun violence by electing officials who refuse to pass stricter gun control laws.

 

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Let's be clear. There are far fewer mass shooters among Grand Theft Auto fans than white supremacists. 🙂

Though one solution was to switch out guns for magic wands, I'd still be ok with that

Yeah, but there were also people who didn’t fall for that... I remember... Don’t blame video games. It is not the video game that kills, it is the person playing it. If only those soft-non playing persons had a console at hand! We need more video games to defend from video games

Get Tipper Gore on the case.

No we dont.

I've been playing Fallout for years prepping for the inevitable.

Thanks for this

I often roll up to some cops, nade spam them, and Jack their rides... But then I haul ass and hide in a garage till the heat cools down. In the games I just like to park all the cars on one lawn.

Tetris enrages me to no end, get me an AR15 quickly, said nobody ever.

I blame super mario for my debilitating turtle stomping problem

I do remember when video games and Judas Priest were responsible for all violent crime in the UK and US

Are there any good games like GTA2? Or are we doomed to perish?

'Gamers' need to chill, though. Ain't shit happening to games. They tried the same with rock and metal. I hear this all the time, and they don't do shit to games. Because any politician knows that would be political suicide.

Here comes round 2.

...or banning Tommy guns

Fun fact. Mass shootings in the USA have skyrocketed ever since Tipper Gore heard a Prince song at aerobics.

Sad when is the voice of reason and truth

Join me in remembering that conservatives cared less about the violence in the GTA games than they did about the sex scene that wasn’t even technically in the game.

them rainbow roads and those mario karts are turning our children into killers!

I remember that time where after playing a session of Stardew Valley growing crops & making wine, it made me want to go on a mass shooting spree.

They still do

Don’t forget Marilyn Manson!

I wrote a satirical piece myself: Good Guy with Gun Takes The Day Off Read article at:

They can take my video games frommy cold dead hands.

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