(08-06-2019, 06:40 AM)Cleatwood Wrote:

(08-05-2019, 10:53 PM)lastonealive Wrote: Or just not give them an easy opportunity to kill lots of people in a few seconds.

Weird these global video games don't cause mass shootings everywhere

Lol I was just thinking this.

Mental Illness and video games are prevalent all over the world and yet the good ol USA is the one making the headlines for these shootings.

I appreciate everyone's perspective on this problem even when we don't agree on the solution. Having said that, we should also work from a factual basis, and that factual basis is that the United States is not the only country where this happens and doesn't lead in any of the categories related to frequency or deaths per capita or by population (data at the link below). But you are right that we "make headlines", I wonder if that in itself isn't an indictment of the business of "headline news" on the creation of copycats?

http://worldpopulationreview.com/countri...y-country/

I know Mikesez and others like him just can't wait to start ripping these factual numbers apart in an attempt to make Orange Man Bad, but the truth is that we hear about American events more because America is closer and bigger than any of these other countries that are dealing with similar instances.

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