[MeshugeMikey]

so now a crazed gunman's FRIENDS are experts in the field of aberrant psychology?

of course an angry delusional punk would be obsessed with acting out ,...KILLINGS..

[Mamzelle]

Anybody—are there photos of the shooting victims? Anywhere?

[Vendome]

So?

I just played “World at War” and I have no predilections to harm another living being.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Ive played Grand Theft Auto V(Which rocks by the way) and Call of Duty a bunch of times, never had any desires to shoot up a bunch of people..the left will stop at nothing to destroy this country

[WayneS]

I guess that means Obama needs to use his executive powers to require background checks, waiting periods and “One-Game-a-Month” rules for violent video games...

...and he needs to make sure he closes the “video game convention loophole”.

[RedStateGuyTrappedinCT]

No!!! No!!! Don't you see, the gun just jumped into this poor innocent veteran's hands and started firing itself at unarmed people.

It's time for outright confiscation of these dangerous self-acting machines before they come to your town and start mowing people down.

[Paradox]

I have no problem in believing that there are some marginal personalities/mental cases, which are very susceptible to violent video games and can make them “turn”. There probably isn’t a “solution” to this problem that makes sense in a free society, but its something that I won’t neccessarily deny.

[Dead Corpse]

All of the FPS/violent video games I’ve been playing over the last 20 years must have been faulty because I utterly failed to go on a killing spree.

Shooting random people for real just doesn’t sound nearly as fun...

[b4its2late]

Here we go.....

[alloysteel]

So when do violent video games get outlawed?

Don’t laugh, folks, there was a similar push by the Federal government to outlaw violence in comic books - COMIC BOOKS! back in those dark old days of the 1950’s and 1960’s.

Admittedly, some of the “graphic novels” from that period depicted some pretty gruesome scenes and various means of enacting crimes. They were almost an instruction book on how to kill and maim.

But they were tame in comparison to most of the “mature content” TV programming and video gaming now available.

[Veto!]

The perp had an addiction problem, with alcohol and with video games.

Conveniently, media tends to leave out the drinking part, perhaps because they have alcohol manufacturers and bars and restaurants as advertisers.

The Wall Street Journal blogger fills in the blanks:

Mr. Alexis was a “hardcore drinker,” he (Suthametewakul) said, and was also skilled in videogames, which he would play for marathon sessions that lasted hours. Another friend, Michael Ritrovato, a government worker, said he witnessed Mr. Alexis playing first-person shooting games online.

Mr. Suthamtewakul said he and his family would sometimes bring Mr. Alexis plates of food during his videogame binges."

Political Insight and Analysis From The Wall Street Journal's Capital Bureau September 16, 2013, 7:53 PM

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/09/16/friend-aaron-alexis-skilled-at-shooter-videogames/

[LostPassword]

I hear he also drank water, slept in a bed, and rode in cars. And I’d guess he occasionally drank soft drinks over 16 oz. At least the hard core gamers I know wouldn’t play 16 hours of video games without lots of soda. I’m starting to think the water, beds, and cars had nothing to do with this and we need to ban big sodas.