Tragedies like this are the result of a failed society. Until you all change your hateful, judgmental, tyrannical ways you will face their wrath. You brought this upon yourselves.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 19588417 Moreover violent video games have nothing to do with it, it's just a scapegoat so you can avoid the real problem. You're the problem.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 19588417 When we where kids, back in the 1950s... we didn't have video games.
Nah, we watched TV and Movies and we watch Cowboy and Indian, and WWII combat movies.
WE then after our alloted 1 hour a day TV or a once a month movie at the theaters, we went outside to play.
We used sun dried clods for stones, sticks for swords, shields out of plywood scraps, buckets for helmets.. use used short two by fours for rifles, we made bows and dull 'arrows', and wooden knifes. We had battles on the hills, the forests, the grass field, the roads... we had mock wars... and people got hurt, knots on heads, skinned knees and arms, dirt in the eyes, bruises. We learned it hurts.
Later on in the 1960s some of those 1950s went to real War.. some died come back alive, some have never come back. Many of them had been Drafted.
PinGun is pussified compared to what we kids did as 'war games' in the 1950s and early 60s.
But I sit as nearly a 60 year old guy now, watching this teenage and pre-teen grandkids playing their Violent Video games and see how focused in, how mesmerized they are, how hypnotized they are -- and I see kids that are removed from reality of physical HURT. I see these kids killing real people on video screens running lethal air-drones, and land robot drones.. thinking it is all a game.
Yet, most of them if you drop a book on the hard-floor behind them will almost shit their pants.
Oh, we didn't have SSRI's back then. Psychos went to the Pysch-wards and rarely were ever seen again.
Legal Drugs kill thousands upon thousands of people in the USA, likely Millions in the world every year... and that is not because of Violent Video Games... its because of Sorcery called Pharmaceuticals in the hands of mega profit, mega corporations and backed by their Stock Holders holding Shares on Wall St.