Here we have the nexus to part of his madness.
I know an ER psychiatrist who when a parent brings a teenager into the Emergency Room with complaints that he is suicidal or homicidal always asks the kid if he plays war or other such violent video games.
The child ALWAYS says yes.
Then he asks how many people he killed today. The kid gives usually a number in the 100s and the parents are shocked.
We now have soldiers receiving treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder who are flying the drones and killing people. These are adult men who are trained to kill from a chair and a video screen.
So when you allow a child or teen, to sit in their room, for hours, playing games where all they are doing is killing, and these games look real, it's not a leap to think that they will go real-life. We have a whole generation of kids with PTSD and it's only going to get worse.
I’m on the Autism spectrum and I killed 45 last night. I admit that some of those were shared kills but I was using a bolt action part of the time.
Before I had teenage sons, I would have agreed that playing violent video games might mess with their heads. And cause violence in real life.
I don’t feel that way any more, though. If you asked all of my son’s friends if they play shooter video games, they will say yes. Some more than others, but all do it. They are athletes and good students and most have good families — intact, loving. One or two don’t, but they still seem like good kids.
It might be that asking a teenaged boy who comes into a hospital for suicidal tendencies or depression if he plays video games is like asking him if he ever eats chips.