Woke up and did some house chores and preparing for a 10km run under the sun and before that lets do some rants this morning.

Mass shooting incident in the PH and the assailants are minors. It's becoming messy because a violent game is being dragged into the issue despite the fact that the violent game is rated 18+ and apart from that, more stringent firearms laws on ownership is being pushed because it turns that the incident involved a gun from a police officer that was used by the assailant.

Games do affect the mental state of people even adults. In fact, back in 2021 when I joined a group of Call of Duty Mobile (CODM) players from other places while we are on Covid19 at lockdown, at some point one of the boy teens said he wanted to join the reserve force and he was serious and then he said he hopes he can enter the reserve force without any trainings because he is already very good in CODM. Even if I tried, I could not help but suddenly burst into laughter and that offended the boy teen. I had to explain to him that there are a lot of the physical stuffs that he don't have to wrestle in CODM but in real life he has to. For example, he can jump around many times and run and jump to evade being hit by the enemy and in real life, you can only jump for a certain height with all weight of the gear pulling him down due to gravity and he can only sprint for so many times and it will take the breath out of him because simply, games does not reflect the realities of Physics that we feel.

Now the guns, I've seen this debate in the US happen for a long time now because we all know that in the US, two factions are arguing about the root cause and solution for the regular mass shooting. One side wants stricter gun regulations while the other side believes that doing so adds the pressure to law abiding citizens yet the criminals does not get affected because criminals won't spend their time submitting to the laws of gun control. Basically, advocating for stricter gun laws does not really solve the problem. Even if the state bans the use of guns except for state forces, then the criminals will simply use knives, machete. Again, ban these bladed tools and the criminals will resort to using hammers. The solution is not about weapons control. It has something to do with security and early signal detection with counseling involving the parents, health professionals, schools, and police force.

If PH really does not like the idea of a violent game in PH, they should simply ban violent games in the PH.