Saw that Alex Jones guy who was defending no gun laws he is apeshit nuts.

Colbert is just a funny guy.... totally gets how ridiculous politics are. Listen to whole show not just the 8min mark...its well worth the time.

I agree we have better gun regulation to reduce gun deaths like we have drunk driving. People still drink and people will still get their guns just in a way that reduces the homicide substantially. Theoretically that's possible and should done. However this blaming it all on anything other than the guy who committed the heinous act or certain types of parenting which would put the parent in jail for life or several years is something you should not do. Guns just makes it where people kill more effectively. It does not solve the problem that these people wanted to kill someone or multiple someones. 10,000+ from gun violence annually because its the easiest fastest method but around 2,000 every year die from knife or sharp objects, and hundreds to thousands more from blunt objects, hand to hand, strangulation, etc. It may be true that if you experience see gun violence or experience trauma yourself, you may be more likely commit a form of gun violence yourself. Remember though that was a person who caused that trauma or violence, not the gun. Everything can be traced back what a person does. So yes guns should regulated to keep them out of the wrong hands because they are dangerous weapons but we should never blame the gun for human action.

Looking at all these agrees, it looks like us gamers actually aren't that fond of real guns. Maybe the next time someone wants to blame video games for a shooting they should talk to us.

Stephen Colbert: A man with common sense. I swear, it's like only the most dimwitted of our population believe that something else can be held responsible for a person's actions. In the United States, a criminal can never be held responsible for their own violent crimes, specifically the ones that make national headlines (i.e. shootings).

The NRA and uneducated parents all want to blame violent media, especially video games, but they fail to realize that some people are just plain sick in the head. They don't want to acknowledge that human error is a very real thing. "Oh, we humans cannot be violent by ourselves. Something has to influence that violence." You know, the usual spat of crap that often comes from the mouths of those kinds of individuals.

I have a question to those people: Exactly what influenced every single violent atrocity that has happened over the course of human history? I would say political agenda, religion, colonization, and vie for personal power have had more influence on people committing violent acts than any form of media ever has. Video games didn't exist until a few decades ago. Looking at American history, plenty of things were blamed before hand. Comics, Dungeons and Dragons, and rock music have been blamed before for influencing the "innocent children" to become communists, do drugs, and join gangs.

People need to wake up and realize the truth. I mean, if celebrities are more aware of the certain things (like Seth Rogen taking a jab at the Grammy's for having Chris Brown on) than why can't the common citizen? Guess it's just that some people need more of a slap to the face by reality than one thinks.

Never knew about this guy before. America is so ripe for satire because they take so much so seriously about themselves!

I've recently studied this topic during university, and it pretty much books down to violent media can have a slight negative effect on people with violent tendencies, not solely games.

Its because games are fairly new into mainstream media. Movies and whatnot went through similar debate when initially released.

Why do people always focus on the negative, when there are so many positives in gaming.

Stephen Colbert is so wrong, there has been studies that violent games = disaster.

Here is proof http://www.foxnews.com/stor...

Sure it may be a bit more stimulating than watching a movie, reading a book or listening to music.. but it's just ridiculous to blame video games as the main reason for the issue.

T.T

I blame playing too many video games for playing too many video games!

Please children, don't attack the Christians for their beliefs, and Christians, don't try to force those beliefs on others. Reason with people, but let them choose.

People that choose to kill, will murder no matter what. They'll find inspiration in a happy meal... or an excuse for their crimes.

Can what we watch, read, play, and listen to influence our thoughts? yes. But people still have free will. The problem is, some adults don't reach full mental maturity. So They do get too influenced by some entertainment.

But how can we weed out those people in society and prevent them for obtaining these products? Mental competency tests for all 15 year olds before the play COD? of course not. Ban these games so that no one can play them? Doesn't seem fair. But if it would prevent just ONE more death, wouldn't it be worth it?

As a society, we should be asking ourselves, why are we so obsessed with killing on video games?

Back in the 80's, the world was in love with fat plumbers and docile extra-terrestrials. Today, we love visceral murder simulators and conflicted anti-heroes.

I don't have a sociology degree, but it doesn't take more than a little awareness to realize that our culture's sensitivity to violent acts has been degraded to a point of apathy, acceptance, and even glorification.

Video games are just one arm of the media we are all exposed to today, and over time will of course contribute to our (de)evolving mindset concerning their content. But video games are not solely to blame. We are all constructs of our environment, like it or not. Movies and television - any form of mass media, really - also factor in.

Personally, I feel that violent video games are more a product of our culture and society, not the other way around. But the violence in all of today's media only propagates the effect, creating something of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau