When you provide those on the mental edge of life with training films that are tactical in nature (violent video games), then compound that with television and movies that de-values human life and makes it exciting or fills some anger place in their mixed up brain giving them new ideas, we have to expect those roaming the streets or left to their own merits to do things that shock those that still have the capacity to understand the difference between right and wrong. Getting a handle on the mentally ill is a good step. Perhaps if we could get teeth back in the FCC, we could get a handle on the intertainment industry. That would be another good step for those on the fringe of irrational thinking. Call your representatives to put the teeth back into the FCC. Lets get our complete freedom of gun rights back by being proactive where it will be more effective than just a token step to stroke the gunophobes. Keep calling your representatvies and encouraging others to do like wise. They won't listen to a few, but they will listen to a majority.
So your answer to getting the focus off of gun control is to throw video games and freedom of media to the wolves? For starters, it's been proven over and over and over again since this movement started in the 90s that violent media has little to no influence on violent activity. Tens of millions of gamers alone buy the Call of Duty series, and I don't see tens of millions of psychopaths walking the streets.
Second, let's pretend the spotlight does swing towards the violent media and there's some sort of reform to bring down the level of violence, whatever this theoretical action is. When they're done, do you really think they won't come back to guns?
The idea of sacrificing one right for another is horrible. I'm sure those rights to play a video game or see a violent movie aren't as high on the list, but it's just as bad to say we should pin everything on that; and to be blunt, is a bit hypocritical.
And as an aside, to everyone who thinks NY is going to be the only state that this is going to happen to, think again. Today it's 'oh, poor little NY, but I still have my guns, sucks to be them.' If there isn't some sort of solidarity amongst gun owners, the whole country is going to be an NY. Hunters don't care about assault weapons owners, rifle owners don't care about pistols; today it's something that isn't important to you, but they'll get to it. NY managed to cut down semi-auto rifles and pistols in one move, and it wasn't even hard. Before today, I was one of those people that felt something like this could never happen. Don't let your arrogance and organizations like the NRA tell you otherwise; the chances of it happening are very, very real. It takes one law to set the precedent and get everyone else thinking.
