US Politicians Slam NRA's 'Practice Range' Shooting App
Calls the game 'hypocritical'.
It doesn't look like the National Rifle Association is making many friends this week. A number of US politicians have spoken out against the organisation's release of an iOS app that teaches players from the age of 4 to use firearms.
The NRA: Practice Range app, which was first reported yesterday, was released as a free 'educational' game that taught gun safety and offered players the chance to use Colt pistols and MK11 sniper rifles.
Apple has changed the rating of the app to 12+, after calls from Senator Charles Schumer to raise it from its previous 4+ rating to 17+. "The NRA has acted in an unbelievably hypocritical fashion by blaming the nation’s gun violence on video games and movies, then coming out with a game for children featuring assault weapons," he said. "Apple should not facilitate children using it."
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg added that the NRA's actions were "the height of hypocrisy... If you remember the head of the NRA's speech on television, he blamed violent children's games for causing things like the terrible tragedy in Connecticut," Bloomberg said.
And he wasn't wrong - the NRA did squarely place the blame at the door of violent media such as games, movies and music.
Source: CBS New York
The NRA: Practice Range app, which was first reported yesterday, was released as a free 'educational' game that taught gun safety and offered players the chance to use Colt pistols and MK11 sniper rifles.
Apple has changed the rating of the app to 12+, after calls from Senator Charles Schumer to raise it from its previous 4+ rating to 17+. "The NRA has acted in an unbelievably hypocritical fashion by blaming the nation’s gun violence on video games and movies, then coming out with a game for children featuring assault weapons," he said. "Apple should not facilitate children using it."
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg added that the NRA's actions were "the height of hypocrisy... If you remember the head of the NRA's speech on television, he blamed violent children's games for causing things like the terrible tragedy in Connecticut," Bloomberg said.
And he wasn't wrong - the NRA did squarely place the blame at the door of violent media such as games, movies and music.
Source: CBS New York
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Ergo 16 Jan 2013 18:45
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So if I have this right: games don't affect people except when they do, Spong? Have I got that about right? You can't have it both ways, so either games do create murderous monsters (and this app is a bout as anodyne as it gets) or they don't.
Also: LMAO, you're stating that a game were people are shooting at TARGETS is somehow hypocritical of a group criticizing games where headshots are the new handshake? If that's the case, me throwing a vase at a wall is excessively violent--or is that only if I'm throwing it at someones head? It's so hard to keep track fo the shifting morality and ethics of the crack Spong staff!!
Do you even think before you write this stuff? (The answer is no but, then, you studiously ignore that politicians of a certain ideological bent are far more likely to go after games, and it isn't the party typically associated with the NRA that's doing it. A tiny bit of consistency would be great, guys.)
Also: LMAO, you're stating that a game were people are shooting at TARGETS is somehow hypocritical of a group criticizing games where headshots are the new handshake? If that's the case, me throwing a vase at a wall is excessively violent--or is that only if I'm throwing it at someones head? It's so hard to keep track fo the shifting morality and ethics of the crack Spong staff!!
Do you even think before you write this stuff? (The answer is no but, then, you studiously ignore that politicians of a certain ideological bent are far more likely to go after games, and it isn't the party typically associated with the NRA that's doing it. A tiny bit of consistency would be great, guys.)