Parents blaming plastic for their problems

[XXDarrienX]

http://www.shoutwire.com/viewstory/1..._Bad_Parenting


Personal Responsibility at its lowest

[Boozy]

I won't comment on the actual issue, but I would like to point out that the author of the article doesn't seem to have a firm handle on the concept of the "rhetorical question".

[RecoveringKinkoid]

"What kind of message are we sending when we buy it for our kids?"

[Soulstealer]

"What kind of message are we sending when we buy it for our kids?"

That you can't properly learn to aim with one of those wand thingies unless you're Harry Potter?

Seriously I believe the message is that the kid is playing a video game, tell your kids it's pretend and if you're still uncomfortable with it the writer did suggest the extrodinary measure of not buying it.

[MystyGlyttyr]

You know, I've taken a police simulation shooting test and it's been shown that I am capable of shooting at the level of a police lieutenant. Apparently, that's good. However, that test was all digital...it didn't use a real gun, it was basically a giant video game, and they factor in error like kickback and things of that nature for your final score, but I apparently was still quite impressive.

Obviously, this is because I played Duck Hunt five or six times when I was a little girl with my Nintendo gun.

I UR KILLUN MACHIN.

Sorry, but I'm treating this news with all the dignity it deserves...

[Flood]

Well, I used to love shooting games in the Arcade. The first time I ever picked up a real gun was when I went thru USAF Basic Training, where I scored high enough to earn a Marksman ribbon. Meanwhile, people with actual experience hunting barely passed.

The difference being that while playing video games may hone your aim, it doesn't teach you anything about handling a firearm. I didn't have any bad habits to unlearn, where the experienced hunters were too used to their old rifles to handle the ones they gave us properly. That and an apparent over reliance on highly calibrated scopes amongst modern hunters.

But there's still a huge leap in logic between learning how to do something in a video game and thinking that it's a reasonable thing to do in reality. The only time I've ever been violent was when I was mugged and I nearly gouged a guy's eye out. But I learned that from growing up the only white kid in a racist neighborhood. You learn to fight from being around violent/abusive people, not from a video game.



As a side note, eyeballs feel icky and I'd never want to do that again.

[MMATM]

A “very concerned grandparent” wrote:
“….Why don’t they enclose an application to the NRA in every box as well….the marketing person who came up with this brain child of an idea should be fired.”

Firstly, a "brainchild" IS an idea, and therefore whomever came up with that idea of an idea should be fired? The marketing person who came up with the idea to enclose an application to the NRA in every box should be fired, sure! They're clearly an idiot. What? You mean YOU were the one who suggested they enclose an NRA application in every box? Well, shit.
Also, "marketing" people didn't come up with the zapper. Designers (either game or system) did, and I can guarantee they didn't create it just so that kids could learn to shoot guns at other people.

People are mind-blowingly stupid.

[DesignFox]

People are horribly stupid. I'd like to take my old nintendo zapper and bat them on the head with it...

Oh wait...I guess that's why I had that violent thought...you know, all those video games and sessions of duck hunt must have ruined me...watch the headlines folks!



I remember the day they added those rating systems....

And I really don't think that the most violent games I ever played were ever for Nintendo...

Actually, my BF and I were talking about this the other night. It's interesting how civilized peoples in the dark ages watched executions and real-life fights to the death for FUN.

I think video games are a much healthier and less deadly outlet...at least, if you teach your kids the difference between real and fake, right and wrong...etc, etc.

I'll reiterate what everyone else said here...Parents need to take responsibility and stop blaming everyone else for their ass-hatery!