Before we place the blame for gun violence solely on the NRA, the Republicans for not supporting a ban on assault rifles, we should take a look at some of the kids’ video games. Recently a friend’s 7-year old asked her to download a game with the title: “Add blood” with the subtitle, “turn on blood to feel awesome!” And there’s a little figure slurping blood out of a glass through a straw. Yum! In addition to adding blood, he had the option to upgrade his choice of firearm, Uzi, Beretta, etc., the more sophisticated the weapon, the higher the cost. And this ups your ability to spill more blood than another player. You wouldn’t want to run out of blood! My friend was horrified and nixed the game.
This type of normal entertainment is protected under our right to free speech where the NRA is protected under the “right to bear arms” (I would prefer to arm bears). Our government protects these rights and our elected officials protect their money, the billions belonging to the NRA. Our politicians pockets are thick with money and their consciences are empty. And life is cheap.
The real problem lies in conditioning and desensitizing our kids to violence. If this game is out there, then they must be making money or it wouldn’t be out there anymore. Right?
Is it really too much of a stretch to use logic and conclude that this is the problem?
Violent games and images are like our thoughts; first they are verbalized and they then manifest in the physical world.
We have no control over politics or the dark energy that has made money their savior. So what can we do to prevent mass shootings?
Let’s take out the demand, start with our kids.
Show them what real blood looks like. It’s real, it flows and when you’re shot it gushes.
It’s messy.
Lose enough, you die.
In an operating room doctors and nurses slips on it.
It even smells.
We’re not protecting our kids by turning off the news. Let them see the progression of violence that video games like “Add blood” perpetrate.
Talk to them. Explain….they’re not stupid! Read poetry. Give them an instrument. Show them beauty, soften their hearts. That way guns and spilling blood will be abnormal and repellent to them.
Start with that. Then there will be no market for games where the winner is the one who has the biggest gun and spills the most blood.
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