I’m playing a video game right now.
I’ve played them since I was seven years old.
When am I going to be involved in a mass shooting on the perp end?
My friend George is the same way, but he likes to play and is an expert at first person shooters.
When is he going to be involved in a mass shooting on the perp end?
These are rhetorical questions, btw, because your theory is invalid.
What has changed is two things.
1. Life no longer has any value, and is not respected.
2. People are insane, and insane people are being pushed over the edge by politicians super charging politics with lies and hate.
That’s all there is to it, and it doesn’t have a thing to do with video games.
Of course only a small minority of gamers will ever be shooters. But knowledge of whether mass shooters have also been players of violent games prior to their attacks would be useful.
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I’m playing a video game right now.
I’ve played them since I was seven years old.
When am I going to be involved in a mass shooting on the perp end?
Insufficient info with which to draw a conclusion; Please describe your family life, your education, and your spiritual life ...
(not really; I don’t mean to pry, but, you get the idea.)
I agree with your two points.
Never much of a gamer. After a week of fixing problems for idiots, staring at a box for more hours doesn’t happen much now.
Drugs
Dead on. Either that, or you are doomed. :)
I don.t play any of the games, but your post is excellent.
But it does omit one very important point.
Many of the mass murderers had serious problems known to their associates.
Most were known to the local cops and some were even known and under surveillance by the FBI.
Every one of the known to be potential killers were ignored. Nothing was done to prevent their criminal acts.
Why?
That is the question that must be answered and proper corrections made to the way these people are treated.
Taking guns away is not going to stop mass murders. Timothy McVeigh did not use a gun. A rental truck loaded with fertilizer, and I believe doctored with kerosene, did the job.
The Boston Bomber did not use a gun.
The 9/11 hijackers did not use guns.
There have been several instances of vehicles used to run through crowds of pedestrians.
Recently a guy set a building on fire with a can of gasoline. Many died in the fire.
As for video games, after we ban them what do we do about the movies. Late night TV plots are written by very sick people.
What do e do about the TV news? Maybe like New Zealand? Jail people who report or show pictures of crime scenes?
Burn books? Start with the pulp fiction detective magazines of old? They must have been the root cause of the likes of John Dillinger and Bonnie and Clyde.
Banning guns and video games will change nothing. The solution is to find and treat or imprison both those who are potential terrorists and especially those who encourage and egg them on.
Tom Arnold, Kathy Griffin and maybe a dozen others who are starved for media attention should be jailed. Inciting murder is not protected as freedom of speech.
+1
“by politicians super charging politics with lies and hate.”
U bad mouthin Mad Maxine from Kalifornicate ?
Life no longer has any value....50 million abortions has to have something to do with that.