How much effect does the violent and gruesome video games that young kids play factor in to these shooting en mass type killings?
I honestly don’t think this has anything to do with the video games/violence on TV or in the media, or our world, etc... Literally MILLIONS of people play “violent” video games, and if the games themselves caused people to go off the deep end these incidents would be WAY more common than they are. The problem goes back still to people with emotional/mental disturbances. If this were not so, then we would’ve only seen these types of things in modern society (i.e. the last 20 years or so) and not before... If it were only video games and our world then how could one explain Al Capone???
I know people want to understand why these things happen in order to prevent it from happening in the future. However, blaming these individual’s actions on things such as video games, or even the medication they’re taking seems to me to be a way to explain away the fact that there are people in this world who commit these atrocities — even if they are NOT exposed to these things, nor are on medications.
if we want to bring religion into it, one could say that there are those who have evil in their hearts and/or are tricked into thinking that their actions can cause some sort of change... And, people with emotional and/or mental disturbances are more receptive to Satan’s trickery.
Just my thoughts. You of course are free to disagree.
I’ve not heard of or searched for a study that attempts to answer that question. It’s possible there’s one out there. It would be easier to find one that studies the correlation between teen violence and videogames, music.
One musicl label is called “murder Inc.”. It’s that odd?
I forgot the link. This is a major label mind you...respected in the rap community so to speak. :-p
http://www.google.com/search?q=murder+inc&hl=en