Yea no...

There has always been a fairly big deal about violence in games. One even has to be a certain age to buy certain types of extremely violent games.  Trust me there are a lot of games and game related items out there I will not let my 3 year old play with. Not till he is much much older.  I have a bit of experience in the gaming arena, old school gaming that is:

• Tore peoples heads off in Predator
• Hunted Nazis in Wolfenstein
• Went fucking crazy with weapons in Doom
• 2003 I devoted some serious play time to Postal

I played some games so much, I got to the point were I was just hunting.  I was out for blood and vengeance and my God I was going to get it! Since then I have chilled out a bit.  Focusing on other things: husband, children, house, watching the cat shred some helpless creature in the garden. Saner more normal sorts of things.  Then I discovered the NRA is launching a shooting app aimed at 4 and up!?  So we put restrictions on who can buy violent video games, or at least list guidelines, but the NRA can offer my soon to be 4 year old and app?  How is this going to improve our society were the fear of gun violence is escalating?  There is enough studies and data available now, that support a direct correlation between violent games and aggressive behavior among children.  Under a minute I can find about 50+ research studies, below is one example of a study cited in a news release:

Violent Video Games Linked to Aggressive Behavior April 24, 2000 -- The one-year anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting has come and gone, reopening old wounds and revisiting unanswered questions. The unthinkable remains unexplainable: What could have caused two seemingly average kids to go on such a rampage?

Some of the blame has fallen on violent video games, which the two Columbine shooters, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, played religiously. But are these games actually part of the problem, or just an easy target?

When enough correlation is found between violent video gaming and violence among children/aggressive behavior...why would the NRA develop and an app, that my 4 year old can use?  Unless they are the Devil? 

Before you get your panties in a twist, let me remind you, historically, the NRA supported for gun control. "For nearly a century after, its founding in 1871, the National Rifle Association was among America’s foremost pro-gun control organizations. It was not until 1977 when the NRA that Americans know today emerged, after libertarians who equated owning a gun with the epitome of freedom and fomented widespread distrust against government—if not armed insurrection—emerged after staging a hostile leadership coup." The NRA has lost its central focus and direction.  Those running the organization are clearly deranged and so quickly forget their own history. In the 50s I might have actually trusted their insight into guns, gun usage, and related information.  Today, I would not, they have turned into a group of psychos developing shooting apps designed for my soon to be 4 year old.