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Okay, it seems video games come under fire every time there is a shooting or violent crime. News stations, such as Fox, blame these increasingly popular pass times as the reason for violent behavior in certain groups of people. They have pointed out that a lot of the criminals that commit these crimes played video games. They even try to say that video games were behind such acts as the Columbine shooting or the shooting in DC.
America has always been a violent country.
The first documented serial killer (excluding so-called Indian fighters) was H.H. Holmes whose reign of terror lasted from 1861 to 1896.
The worst mass killing took place in 1927 when Andrew Kehoe killed 38 elementary school children.
The first terrorist bombing known as the Haymarket Massacre took place in 1886 when persons unknown detonated a bomb during a labor rally. No one knows the full extent of the casualties except for the seven police officers killed.
Of course the first political assassination was in 1865 when John Wilkes Booth murdered Pres. Abraham Lincoln.
The worst race riot took place in 1921 in Tulsa Oklahoma when a mob of white Oklahomans attack the black community.
I don't have the time or the space to recount the number of massacres committed against Native people or the lynching committed by angry mobs who gathered from miles around to participate in the torture and mutilation and murder of thousands of men and women. Nor do I have the time or inclination to list all the acts of criminal violence committed in this country long before TV, movies or the internet were even thought of.
Okay, it seems video games come under fire every time there is a shooting or violent crime. News stations, such as Fox, blame these increasingly popular pass times as the reason for violent behavior in certain groups of people. They have pointed out that a lot of the criminals that commit these crimes played video games. They even try to say that video games were behind such acts as the Columbine shooting or the shooting in DC.
I want to know what you think. Do you think video games are to blame?
Do you believe that violence in games increase aggression in people and make them want to go commit violent acts? Would removing violence from video games decrease violence by a noticeable amount?
I think technology is to blame. It has distanced us from our humanity. We have become desensitized to the reactions of others to our actions. Our world is us and what impacts us. This is a perfect storm for video games to insert violence against those who stand in my way. How much like the avatars in the game are other people when you connect or disconnect with them only through social media? We have whole generations that don't know how to interact with other humans. When they try, is it any surprise they can't control their anger?
We, seriously, need to unplug our kids and holler out the door, as my mother did, "Be home when the street lights come on"
I think video games and violent movies are part of the problem but not the entire problem. I think the stage was set for video games and violent movies to deliver a message deeper than we intended.
Its interesting that some folks want to blame video games, but not TV, movies, music or other cultural influences. The bottom line is that we should blame the people who actually commit the crimes.
Its interesting that some folks want to blame video games, but not TV, movies, music or other cultural influences. The bottom line is that we should blame the people who actually commit the crimes.
People use those things as scapegoats. They don't want to address the actual Individual or .. ahem... the choice of weapons in these mass shootings.
Okay, it seems video games come under fire every time there is a shooting or violent crime. News stations, such as Fox, blame these increasingly popular pass times as the reason for violent behavior in certain groups of people. They have pointed out that a lot of the criminals that commit these crimes played video games. They even try to say that video games were behind such acts as the Columbine shooting or the shooting in DC.
I want to know what you think. Do you think video games are to blame?
Do you believe that violence in games increase aggression in people and make them want to go commit violent acts? Would removing violence from video games decrease violence by a noticeable amount?
I don't know how many of you remember this, but about 20 years ago there were outbreaks throughout the country of young people murdering and doing heinous crimes. The one thing most of the crimes had in common was the game Dungeons and Dragons. The media made a big outcry about how violence in the media was going to turn our children into monsters. Well, though the media seems to have developed amnesia today, the fact is their prophesies have come true. Violent content has gotten markedly worse, so graphic that it has totally desensitized generations to the violence. While I don't think that violence in the media is 100% responsible for the crimes of the youth today, I do believe that it has become a legitimate alternative for dealing with adversity. That is a huge problem.
Okay, it seems video games come under fire every time there is a shooting or violent crime. News stations, such as Fox, blame these increasingly popular pass times as the reason for violent behavior in certain groups of people. They have pointed out that a lot of the criminals that commit these crimes played video games. They even try to say that video games were behind such acts as the Columbine shooting or the shooting in DC.
I want to know what you think. Do you think video games are to blame?
Do you believe that violence in games increase aggression in people and make them want to go commit violent acts? Would removing violence from video games decrease violence by a noticeable amount?
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