Colonel Dave Grossman is right on here when it comes to the correlation between violent video games and gun violence.

[Dallas Williams]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMsEuR7dhj4

[Dallas Williams]

What do our mass shooters all seem to have in common? Most all of them, including the latest Aaron Alexis played violent shoot to kill video games. When are people gonna finally see the connection here that in allowing our children to play shit like this that we’re allowing them to be trained and conditioned to be killers and not to protect or defend but to kill in cold blooded malice. But instead people want to focus on banning guns when as Grossman states the countries and places with the tightest gun control are the ones with the highest rates of violence, including our own USA lately. If we want to ban anything why not ban the garbage that is teaching our youth how to kill and desensitizing them to violence, death, and the prospect of killing another human being(not to mention in the process causing kids and even some adults to become more sedentary, fat, unhealthy, and emotionally disconnected from those around them) and not the guns which by themselves can do no harm and in the hands of responsible individuals can stop attackers and save lives. We need to teach and encourage our kids to do something constructive and worthwhile with their time like exercising, playing sports, helping a neighbor or family out with chores, or spending more time reading and studying to do better in school and become more productive and fulfilled members of society. Seriously I used to be a big gamer in my teens before I began college and work and studying took up so much of my free time and only then did I realize how much time wasting and brain frying and ass sitting I was spending my youth on. For real take the damn video games and trash and burn them or if you really can’t stand to destroy them and want to make a few bucks in the process to Gamestop or somewhere and trade the fuckers in and start living life or allowing your kids to live theirs.

[Damian (Instructor)]

Specifically all mass killers have:

1. Access to weapons
2. A grievance
3. Withdrawn from society and immersing themselves in violent media and video games
4. Been bullied (some where around 75%)
5. Expressed their fantasy of killing in pictures, journals and other media
6. Planned
7. Prepared
8. Followed through

Violent video games are to mass murders like smoking is to people with heart disease. You need to combine genetic/ physical and mental make up with your environment in order to create someone/ thing who is willing to do something like this.

We’ve always had access to guns. Hell you could mail order them up until the 80’s. Centuries of firearms from the old west to the civil war and not one mass killing like we seen today.

[Anonymous]

I really respect Colonel Grossman and have read a number of things he’s written, but I don’t agree with him when it comes to video games. Millions of adults and children who shouldn’t be allowed because of their age play these games. They don’t turn wonderful children into psychopaths. A warped mind will use them to plan their next assault, but most kids see them as a game and they go back to their normal lives. Same with kids who have toy guns, played Dungeons and Dragons, and listened to Rap and Heavy Metal music. These are simple excuses for much deeper problems like issues with the family, bullying, and lack of mental health care. There is no quick fix and some of the worst crimes committed this past century have been committed by individuals who didn’t have electricity let alone TV.

[Damian (Instructor)]

To clarify, and we cover this in his seminar. The video games are like what smoking is to heart disease. Given the right genetic and environmental factors, violent video games are one common all these mass murderers have.

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