http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/commentary/news/story?page=keown/101116 What a steaming pile of shit. I understand that gun rights are always a hotly contested issue, but this a commercial for a video game. Give me a break.
The guy obviously has never played COD. The new COD lets you add your clan tag to your gun. Oh yeah, it's a fuckin video game. What a douche.
I mean, I understand that it's a terrible, terrible thing when a child dies. It doesn't matter if it's guns, or poison, or car accidents, etc, but the leaps that this guy makes in his article are simply ridiculous. Little boys have been simulating violence since the beginning of time. My dad played cowboys and indians, and simulated fighting the Germans in old WWII surplus gear. Blaming television, or video games, is an easy target, but it ignores the problem. If you're so worried about your kids seeing this kind of violence, don't let them play the games. Don't let them watch violent shows. Don't let them play with toy guns. Although I think it's funny when parents don't allow their kids to play with toy guns, because my parents didn't either until I was older, so I made my own guns out of things like electric carving knives, sticks, and pretty much anything else I could get my hands on that looked like the shape of a gun. I've been watching violent movies, playing video games, and messing around with toy guns since I was a kid, and I've never shot anyone. I've never felt the urge to shoot someone... The problem is the parents who ignore their children. Who ignore the warning signs. Who hide guns away like they're a secret, and never educate their children on the dangers and the seriousness of a firearm. My dad taught me about guns when I was old enough to know what he was talking about. The gun was never accessible, but he brought it out and showed it to me. Told me about how important safety was. Took me shooting and made sure I understood that it was not a toy. I swear some of the people in this country think that hiding something, that shielding your child from something, that making it go away is going to keep your child safe. It's just like anything else, cigarettes, alcohol, drugs.... if you make it taboo, they're going to be all the more curious. It's time for this country to wake the fuck up. We're ignoring a much bigger problem. In many cases, kids are growing up without a strong parental influence in their lives. Both parents work, so the kids are at home alone or are stuck at a daycare somewhere. I had a stay-at-home mom for most of my life, and she was a huge influence in how I turned out. I remember all the latch-key-kids in school, and many of them were the trouble makers who were constantly getting sent to the principals office. No matter how you shake it, I think the problem is that kids aren't getting enough of a positive moral, ethical, and educational influence in their lives. Blame it on the economy, blame it on television or the internet, but laying blame doesn't fix the problem.
Yup, I completely agree. Let a kid shoot a gun & they'll truly understand the power behind it and how much damage it can really do. They won't be waving it around like a toy after that.
We definitely need more guns and violence, and the glorification of guns and violence, in our society. I don't see how anybody could debate this point.
Shoot a kid with a gun, and they'll really truly understand the power behind it and how much damage it can really do. barfo
I believe the quote you were looking for is paraphrased like: Build a man a fire and he will be warm for a day, Set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life...
Don't feel like angering myself by reading the article, but is there any mention of Jimmy Kimmel being on there, or is he off-limits because he works for the Disney conglomerate?
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Not only should Kobe not participate in that commercial, he should not play the game. It perpetuates virtual violence and desensitizes us all, creating killers amongst us. Before video games no one killed anyone. Further, Kobe should not participate in McDonald's commercials or advertising for Nutella. Obesity is an epidemic and more people die of fatness than from guns. Finally, Kobe should not be a pitchman for Nike. Athletics maim participants (see: Greg Oden) and create celebrities that perpetuate societal problems (see: Kobe Bryant). Ed O.
Yes, and if Oden is going to the same doctor that Kobe did because he saw it on tv, some hotel employee is going to die if Oden mimics everything Kobe did there. Stop the madness.
I don't really care about the Kobe shit but this commercial is fucking funny. I love the guy at the end!
