This is just grasping at straws.
Before video games we were blaming rock music and Marilyn Manson for violence. This is just stupid. The only ones guilty here are the perpetrators and the society that failed to catch them falling in between the cracks and gave them easy access to firearms. There have always been people with murderous aspirations and always will be. The weapon of choise is just a tool and a force multiplyer. They likely would have used a tactical nuke if they had access to one. They didn’t so an assault rifle was the next best choise. Focusing on AR-15 is ridiculous. They’ll use what ever the best thing is they have access to.
Focusing on AR-15 is ridiculous. They’ll use what ever the best thing is they have access to.
No, because an AR-15 was used in this specific case, and these specific companies were involved in making and aggressively marketing this specific gun to the specific person who used it to kill these people.
This isn’t a “Marilyn Manson/video games/anything-but-guns is the real reason” type argument.
These specific companies’ obviously dangerous practice of marketing guns to teenaged boys contributed to the events at Uvalde, or so the suit alleges.
It’s an argument worth hearing the details of before judging.
On the other hand, CoD is just U.S. Army recruitment propaganda, so fuck it.
“When we have a new product that has elements that we’re not sure how people will respond to, what do we do as a corporation?” he asked. “We market it as much as we can — we do all the things we can to essentially brainwash people into liking it before it actually comes out. I’d like to see the government doing this too.”
Under capitalism, production is obviously shaped by demand, and if something that is perceived bad is being produced, that is obviously because people vote with their wallets to do that. Obviously. See also why you personally are to blame for climate change for not recycling hard enough and paying for fuel.
Before video games we were blaming rock music and Marilyn Manson for violence.
Marilyn Manson’s first song was released in 1992.
Video games were being blamed for violence by that time, and there was even a congressional hearing on the topic of video games and violence in 93-94.
