Talk:Dayton nightclub shooting
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Is there any viable evidence that the shooting had anything to do with violent video games? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by BernieandTrumpFan (talk)
- 9 kills plus 27 injured, all in 30 seconds. Impossible without training, which almost certainly would have been on violent video games by the 24-year-old. Juries convict on less evidence.--Andy Schlafly (talk) 13:41, 5 August 2019 (EDT)
I wholeheartedly support gun rights, but I think if he practiced, it was either at a gun range or in his backyard. Also, he was using a basically military-grade weapon. That being said, I would not support heavier restrictions on guns. However, I reject the premise of your argument: I and millions of Western adults and adolescents have played many violent video games, but are not murdering people. So, how is it that he "almost certainly" trained on violent video games, especially considering he had a real gun and could have trained in the real world?
- @BernieandTrumpFan: Either way, guns aren't the problem. Guns have been extremely common in the U.S. since its foundation, and we've had automatic and semi-automatic guns since before World War I. However, mass shootings only started becoming "normal" in the 1990s. The reason is that something is happening to our society. The moral/social fabric that prevented people from deciding to commit mass murder is decaying. This tweet thread gives some good examples of what I mean: [1] --1990'sguy (talk) 18:44, 5 August 2019 (EDT)
1990sguy I support guns.