If such video games are the 'root cause', how many other COD type clones are there? And how many other thousands, hundreds of thousands, or is it over a million, players also play such video games but don't go out and shoot people to live their fantasy?
Address the mental illness of each individual lunatic, instead of lumping all video gamers to be blamed.
To give him credit, he did say as a nation, we should return to religious root envisioned by the Founders.
They always blame a substance.
These shoot em video games kids play on their puters and hand held devices in one of the main reasons for these mass shootings. The other is prescription drugs some doctor’s are giving these kids.
I play first/third person shooters.
I have murdered zero people.
Sometimes the right is as dumb as the left.
I don't think he lumps all video gamers together. However, for these weak minded nerds who go on killing sprees, first person shooter games are probably an unhealthy influence.
Address the mental illness of each individual lunatic, instead of lumping all video gamers to be blamed.
so true. how about lumping in the violence on TV and movies.... Tipper Gore redux . Here we come.
Until we get someone outright stating “ I did this because I play video games, and wanted to see what happened in real life “ stop with the cliches...
I tend to agree with him.
Oh, please. What decade is he in ... the 90s?!
POV Shooter games seems to be a common factor in many of these mass killings... The video game is not the sole reason, but it does appear to be a factor. Sitting on a couch and mindlessly slaughtering for hours on end. likely numbs their brains to some extent.
I live in the province of New Brunswick Canada with a population of just 770+ thousand people. Five police officers and two civilians have been killed in two incidents. One in 2014 and another last year and both shooters were avid video game players.
He is blaming the turning away from God for the violence.
And that there was a substitution made that never should happen; substitute video games etc for God.
This quote from Lt Gov Dan Patrick is what I was referring to:
“As long as we continue to only praise God and look at God on a Sunday morning and kick him out of the town square at our schools the other six days of the week, what do we expect?”
I agree with him 1000%.
Sorry, but if your raise kids playing games where they literally Kill other people... more and more realistically with every version, do not think this will have zero impact.
IN WWI the Army had a problem, they were finding that when faced with killing another human being in combat, that many of their troops were hesitating to pull the trigger.... They switched from using traditional circular targets, to human shaped ones, and found this hesitation lessened... They conditioned their troops to shoot at human shapes without thought.
The studies on this are out there for you to see if you want.
Imagine now if you will, you have millions of children being conditioned to pull the trigger to “kill” as lifelike a rendition of another human as possible, for entertainment... and are rewarded instantaneously with an endorphine and dopamine release for that kill. You think that has no impact? Particularly on those on the margins of the bell curve?
If you do, you are indeed a fool.
No, there is not on single “cause” for these things, but do not think for one minute that modern shooter video games have no impact, or play no role in this kind of crap.
the fact that shooter video games have not turned 500 million ps4 owners into rampage killers does not therefore mean that these games never give an unhealthy psychological nudge into darkness to those that may already be clinically unsteady — especially teenagers, who can be erratic in the first place.
so, maybe we can forgo the next 50 replies where people with an xbox indignantly deny that they have ever committed a slaughter in a movie theater crowded with people.
Video games aren’t the root of the problem. It’s lack of parenting, most notably the lack of a strong, responsible father in the picture.
Another professional politician piling on!
Demonstrating that thinking is “hard” and maybe beyond him!
***by blaming the shooting on a video game. ***
Nothing new. John Kennedy’s death by a Communist sympathizer, was blamed on 1950s and early 1960s TV “violence”, movie violence, comic books and pulp fiction.
Then when Bobby Kennedy was murdered by a Palestinian immigrant, it was blamed on the same. To avoid government supervision, comic books changed, pulp fiction got rid of their blood soaked covers, TV shows dumbed down to kiddie shows.
Only Movies got a pass with a joke of a ratings system. they then began to add more blood, guts and sex to get the coveted “R” rating.
1960s movie and TV shows were very mild compared to today’s shows.
I mostly blame Madalyn Murray O’Hair.
These boys have no conscience.
“As long as we continue to only praise God and look at God on a Sunday morning and kick him out of the town square at our schools the other six days of the week, what do we expect?”
Hard to disagree with that.
“As long as we continue to only praise God and look at God on a Sunday morning and kick him out of the town square at our schools the other six days of the week, what do we expect?”
Hard to disagree with that.
We used to institutionalize people with mental problems and religion played a much larger role in people's lives than it does today. There was no prevailing, "if it feels good, do it," attitude. And guns weren't demonized they way they are today. I think these are among the things we have to roll back first.
ML/NJ
boy, some people really do get hysterical when their ps4 is insulted. weird.