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Shooters train you to handle guns and teach you strategy... of course it does. No better way to learn how to handle a gun and move around a building then playing games like Counterstrike or Battlefield 2. They teach you the workings of the guns, they heighten your reflexes, they teach you to have priorities in what you do, how to have better overview and dozens of things more that will assist you when in the middle of a firefight. There's no denying that and every single person in the gaming industry knows these things.
HOWEVER the idea he has that the games actually encourage kids to shoot up their schools is total f*cking bullsh*t. Anyone with a normal brain knows the border between reality and fiction and if you can't see that difference then there's something mentally wrong with you already, the games don't have anything to do with that. Banning games because some mental retards can't handle them is like banning stairs because crippled people can't use them, it DOESN'T make ANY sense.
Havoc
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Wonderfully said.
I also agree because of games shooters in general but any military/fps whatever games I've played have made me that much better in let's say lazer tag and I just went paintballing this weekend for my first time and I used tons of tactics I had learned from entertainment/media/games etc. I'm just glad that majority of us are in agreement that the games, media, etc effect us but you have to have a screw loose for you to decide to open fire on people and become immersed so far that you would do something so ****ed up.