There is a press headline that reads "Video games and shooting: Is the NRA right?" - Yahoo! News
From the Yahoo article "The NRA says the problem with mass shootings like the recent one at the Sandy Hook grade school in Connecticut is not too many unregulated guns but violent video games. But most academic and government research does not support the gun lobby's charge.”
Guns have been around for hundreds of years, video games, not so much. Given the date closeness of video games vs. guns and school shootings, it does not take a rocket scientist to get a clue...within 20 years of the patent being filed for video games, the first school shooting happened by a man who was trained as a Marine. I believe the world is so messed up is because we listen to the advice of “experts” over intelligent people with common sense!
“Gun
Timeline
1364 - First recorded use of a firearm.
1380 - Hand guns are known across Europe.
1400s - The matchlock gun appears.
August 1, 1966Guns have been around for hundreds of years, video games, not so much. Given the date closeness of video games vs. guns and school shootings, it does not take a rocket scientist to get a clue...within 20 years of the patent being filed for video games, the first school shooting happened by a man who was trained as a Marine. I believe the world is so messed up is because we listen to the advice of “experts” over intelligent people with common sense!
Here’s a touch of common sense in the emotional situation resulting from the school shooting in Newtown, CT. How long have guns been around? (1364 – first recorded use of a firearm) How long have video games been around? (patent filed in 1947) Put both dates up to the list of mass shootings in America and see which was closest. Common sense says that guns were around for hundreds of years and within 20 years of the filing of the patent for what we know as video games, the mass shootings started, August 1, 1966.
Also, there is a lot being said about these shootings being false flag operations designed to create fear in people.
Below are my
research notes as I look deeper into this issue. Let me know what you think.
History of guns
“Gun
Timeline
Historical
timeline of the development of modern weapons starting at 1364 with the first
recorded use of a firearm and ending in 1892 with the introduction of automatic
handguns.
1364 - First recorded use of a firearm.
1380 - Hand guns are known across Europe.
1400s - The matchlock gun appears.
Before the matchlock, guns were fired by holding a burning
wick to a "touch hole" in the barrel igniting the powder inside. A
shooter uses one hand for firing, and a prop to steady the gun.The first
device, or "lock," for mechanically firing a gun is the matchlock.
Powder is held in a "flash pan," and ignited by a wick, or match, in
a movable clamp. Both hands remain on the gun, vastly improving aim. Early
matchlock guns are extremely rare. The matchlock shown here was made around
1640, and is typical of the muskets used by militia in Colonial America.
1900 – Historical firearms period
concludes. Contemporary period begins”
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History of Video Games
The history of video games goes as far back as the 1940s, when
in 1947 Thomas T.
Goldsmith, Jr.and Estle
Ray Mann filed a United States
patent request for an invention they described as a "cathode
ray tube amusement device." Video
gaming would not reach mainstream popularity until the 1970s and 1980s, when were introduced to the general public. Since then,
video gaming has become a popular form ofand a part of
modern culture in most parts of the world. There are currently
considered to be eight generations of video game consoles, with the
First mass school shooting
”Timeline Deadliest modern mass shootings http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2012/12/14/20432891.html http://timelines.latimes.com/deadliest-shooting-rampages/