[I cannot think of a name]

Damm, I don’t understand why none of these talking head nitwits ever do any homework.

-The facts are widely available about what percentage of troops fired their weapon the first time they were in combat during the Viet Nam war.

-The facts are widely available about what percentage of troops fired their weapon the first time they were in combat during the first Gulf War.

- The facts are widely available about what technology the military spent billions of dollars on between those two wars, and what they continue to spend billions of dollars on every year.

There is no debate. Get someone acclimated to pulling the trigger at a realist video human being, and they will pull the trigger when confronted with a real human being.

The big difference is that the military spends a couple of hours a day letting people get used to shooting real people via a video game, and then the other six hours teaching them when it is OK to actually shoot someone.

A strange loner playing realistic video games 14-15 hours in a dark basement receives no such balance.

[SMARTY]

The way things are going, there will be no business remaining in California...except for the production of video games and pornography.

Nancy the nitwit has to make sure these ‘industries’ are encouraged.

[phormer phrog phlyer]

I posted this on a thread a couple of months ago:

I was mobilized to go to Iraq in 06(USNR), and I was in my late 40’s at the time. One day we were doing shoot-house training and I talked to a Sargeant First Class recently returned from Iraq about the youth of today. He said while our generation may have trepidation about pulling the trigger for the first time to kill someone. The younger generation had no such issue, they had practiced 10’s of thousands of times.

[Strategerist]

There's no debate? Take a look at this:

The first really popular, really violent and realistic first-person shooter video game was "Doom" in 1993, and they've taken off in popularity from there.

So why do murder arrest rates of 10-17 year olds suddenly collapse right when violent video games become popular? Shouldn't the rate go up if video games are causing it?

[JerseyanExile]

Those numbers produced by Dave Grossman were based on extremely flawed and skewed data - more recent historical research has shown those statics to have been incorrect.