Very few but it can’t be blamed on one single thing like video games.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shootings_in_the_United_States
Looks like they started in the 80s when video games consisted of Pac Man and Asteroids.
FPS(first person shooter games) weren’t realistic looking until the mid to late 90s.
I’d sooner blame things on Hollywood before FPS games. A person from the 50s would cry, vomit or run from today’s TV/Movies.
Society has gone downhill since the 60s. I think today’s young male shooters probably have many things going against them. They have no purpose in life. When I was their age, in the mid 80s, anyone who wasn’t headed off to college, got a job by the time they were 18/19. It wasn’t flipping burgers either. It was either entry level sales, office job or a trade. Then came the great exodus of jobs with a new “global economy” that started around the same time. All this ‘free trade’ to lift up other nations knocked ours down. President Trump is bringing the jobs back but it’s been a few generations since young people have been able to go out and get a job that no one can fathom the idea. Get a job? How does that work when people don;t even know HOW TO WORK?
Do kids do chores anymore? I had to shovel snow, rake leaves, mow etc. Rural kids still do that stuff but there’s no jobs for them. Suburbanites hire people to do everything now. The kids have their face in a screen all the time now.
The internet has turned out to be quite the horrendous thing. The El Paso kid allegedly picked up information of a Great Replacement theory(not so much theory as fact). So what does a young white male have to look forward to these days? Nothing good really. Being called the scourge of the earth? Hearing that there will be no jobs due to POC importation or robot replacement? Being called colonists, bigots, homophobes if straight, xenophobes? Being born into the term racist?
Then of course we have disconnected parents who’s first instinct when Johnny isn’t just like them, is to get advice from a doctor or school psychologist and then Johnny gets put on drugs to make him “normal”. All poor Johnny needed in the first place was more interaction with parental figure, preferably male one, if one of those happens to be around and preferably is the actual father.
Parents used to raise kids. Now the village does. This village consists of Day care, Public School, TV, computer, phone, prescriptions, Hollywood.
Parents used to raise kids. Now the village does. This village consists of Day care, Public School, TV, computer, phone, prescriptions, Hollywood.
AGREE. Parents are absent or function as just older friends rather than as responsible adults to their kids. Nobody grows up any more. Thirty year olds think of themselves as kids, a candidate for President is as likely to skateboard onto the stage as she is to bark like a dog.
All societal support is going to girls.