LIVE: NRA Press Conference

[CarRacer]

I'm pretty happy that I'm not a member of the NRA. Digital guns are bad news and should be banned but real ones are a-ok? Idiots. How about instead of blaming a video game or the media they blame the parents or the people?

[Heffay]

Didn't watch. What did they say?

[grousemaster]

Didn't watch. What did they say?

It was long....sure it will be re-played on Piers Morgan tonight

[rugersol]

Digital guns are bad news and should be banned but real ones are a-ok? Idiots.

... you musta been watchin' a different feed?!

I didn't get that, at all!

A video game where ya "shoot at and kill kindergarten children" ... ya, I don't see a need for anyone to play that ... or sell it!

... but I'm purdy sure Buck Hunter weren't what he was talkin' about!

[Heffay]

Apparently he blamed rock and roll.

/sigh

[shooter115]

An online video game called Kindergarden Killer where the targets are the children is about the sickest thing I've ever heard of. And apparently it's been around for years, funny nobody else mentioned it.

[Heffay]

And apparently it's been around for years, funny nobody else mentioned it.

Probably because nobody plays it. It's tough to blame a video game that nobody has ever even played. But sure, let's ban video games because they are the problem.

[xd9]

Snip from address........

Entire thing here....
http://home.nra.org/

Through vicious, violent video games with names like Bulletstorm, Grand Theft Auto, Mortal Kombat and Splatterhouse. And here's one: it's called Kindergarten Killers. It's been online for 10 years. How come my research department could find it and all of yours either couldn't or didn't want anyone to know you had found it?

Then there's the blood-soaked slasher films like "American Psycho" and "Natural Born Killers" that are aired like propaganda loops on "Splatterdays" and every day, and a thousand music videos that portray life as a joke and murder as a way of life. And then they have the nerve to call it "entertainment."

But is that what it really is? Isn't fantasizing about killing people as a way to get your kicks really the filthiest form of pornography?

In a race to the bottom, media conglomerates compete with one another to shock, violate and offend every standard of civilized society by bringing an ever-more-toxic mix of reckless behavior and criminal cruelty into our homes — every minute of every day of every month of every year.

A child growing up in America witnesses 16,000 murders and 200,000 acts of violence by the time he or she reaches the ripe old age of 18.

And throughout it all, too many in our national media ... their corporate owners ... and their stockholders ... act as silent enablers, if not complicit co-conspirators. Rather than face their own moral failings, the media demonize lawful gun owners, amplify their cries for more laws and fill the national debate with misinformation and dishonest thinking that only delay meaningful action and all but guarantee that the next atrocity is only a news cycle away.

[xd ED]

I'm pretty happy that I'm not a member of the NRA. Digital guns are bad news and should be banned but real ones are a-ok? Idiots. How about instead of blaming a video game or the media they blame the parents or the people?

A more exact comparison might contrast targets with bull's-eyes vs this

[Heffay]

As a general rule, kids witness zero murders. That's just dumb. All it looks like he is doing is shifting the blame.

[CarRacer]

For people who freak out over the 2nd amendment, the others don't seem to hold a lot of value. Video games fall under the 1st amendment, it's free speech.

[shooter115]

And apparently it's been around for years, funny nobody else mentioned it.

Probably because nobody plays it. It's tough to blame a video game that nobody has ever even played. But sure, let's ban video games because they are the problem.

Did I say anything about banning video games big mouth. Just that the idea of that particular one is pretty sickening.

[Heffay]

Did I say anything about banning video games big mouth. Just that the idea of that particular one is pretty sickening.

No, not you. The NRA guy is blaming them.

[xd9]

For people who freak out over the 2nd amendment, the others don't seem to hold a lot of value. Video games fall under the 1st amendment, it's free speech.

Well, unlike the Anti-2A crowd, they don't say ban them, they just trying to highlight what might be causing some possible loss of our youth's morality.

[plblark]

http://home.nra.org/pdf/Transcript_PDF.pdf