So how does this relate to gaming? About a third of young people, including half of young men and teen boys, say that gaming influences how they think about guns. On average, men get their first firearm at 19, so what they learn about guns as teens can seriously impact their safety (and the safety of those around them) as young adults.
In some of the most popular games, guns can give you power. In real life, guns put you at greater risk. Shooting your intended target in a high-stress situation is incredibly difficult. In fact, studies have found that even police officers hit their intended target about half the time – at best.
So do what you want in the game. But in real life, gamers can help set the record straight. Guns just make things riskier.
— Project Unloaded‘s new Leave Guns in the Game campaign
“But in real life, gamers can help set the record straight. Guns just make things riskier.”
Young males and risky behaviors go together like… Use your imagination… 😉
Guns and ammo! 🙂
“Guns and ammo! 🙂”
I was thinking more along the lines of guys and girls, but guns and ammo works as well. Both can lead to meeting each other leading to explosions and discharges of a sort… 😉
Reminds me of 2 friends talking about money.
1 says to 2: if you had a million dollars would you give me half?
2 says to 1: sure if I had a million I would give you half.
1 says to 2: if you had 1/2 a million would you give me half?
2 says to 1: sure I would for we been good friends for over 20 years.
This exchange continues until 1 says to 2: If you had $20,
and before 1 can finish the question, 2 says: Man shut up you Know I have $20.
Easy to give away what you don’t have and real life ain’t the way it may seem in games, movies etc.
Many gamers, once they came of age, decided to find out what those guns were like in real life. They found out that they were actually pretty cool and also how many laws there are in the way. Just like action movies, shooter games show the guys with guns winning. Banners hate that so they try to write their own narrative. Games are a key way to influence youth to get into guns.
Gamers who grew up playing first-person-shooters are our biggest supply of new shooters replacing the old fat white guys dying off.
Guns and shooting is only getting more popular…