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If you look over the last 15 years Violent video games have become more and more popular and much more realistic then the old days of DOOM other first person shooter games. I have to say seems like today lot of younger people are playing these games with brains that are not fully developed to understand the repercussion of what they are doing. These games are now lot like actual training for military and police use to simulate combat building their skills in killing. If you take a younger person who is depressed plays these video games all day they create a world in their mind where mass shooting seems normal the kid shot up Sandy Hook.
If you look over the last 15 years Violent video games have become more and more popular and much more realistic then the old days of DOOM other first person shooter games. I have to say seems like today lot of younger people are playing these games with brains that are not fully developed to understand the repercussion of what they are doing. These games are now lot like actual training for military shooting people building their skills in killing.
Did you read the article? It doesn't support your claim that the rise of fiolent video games coincides with mass shootings.
International comparisons of per capita spending on violent games and gun-related murders show a negative correlation between the two. And meta-analyses of video game violence studies have found no real link between imaginary on-screen violence and actual aggressive behavior.
This says that the spending on vilent games and gun-related murders there is a negative correlation between the two. Do you know what that means? Negative correlation is a relationship between two variables in which one variable increases as the other decreases
In this case that means as that as per capita spending on violent games rise -- gun-related murders decrease...or that as gun-related murders increases, spending on violent games decrease.
Over the past 15 years the stock market has gone up. This coincides with mass shootings also. What's your point? A rising stock market causes mass shootings?
Sorry but this is bunk. One could also say that the rise of smartphones, or the rise of the internet, or whatever also coincides with school shootings. Look, there are two things every school shooting or mass shooting has in common: They each have a person(s) who shot a gun(s). Everything else people try to blame it on is fluff.
I didn't really read it but figured get some discussion going.
You post a link, then show support towards what you believed the link said, then get shown the error of your ways, then post that you really didn’t read the link.
IT isn't possible at all. We are less violent than 20-40 years ago as a society in fact about 2/3rds or half as violent depending on were you live it might be even lower.
-Violence in video games have only shot-up
- Music has shifted to be dominated by Rap music
- Movies have gotten more violent although some 90s movies were really violent like Pulp Fiction so this is hard to say.
Mass shootings went up after the idea of the modern mass shooting was popularized by Columbine. The exact same thing happened with Terror attacks a few of them in the 90s and 80s and early 2000s basically wrote the book for Terrorism and now people like to pretend Muslims have been strapping vests and blowing people up for the past 100 years when it only really started in the last 20-30.
Basically if crazies of a certain demographic does something like lets say it becomes commonplace to hold up banks with note-cards, people will start doing that, not because society has become more violent but because a new idea enters the mind of crazies and they take their own spin on it.
I've got another good one! I've put on weight every year for the past 15 years. Therefore me putting on weight is responsible for the increase of mass shootings!
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