Violent video games and violence in real life.

[Dr. Solomon Graves]

Hey guys,

Sorry i've been away for a while, I've gone back to work and was finishing up some papers for the end of my school term. But i come to the Mess Hall with a very sensitive topic over here in the States. Following the Connecticut shooting, our gun laws, patients with mental issues, and violent video games are all taking the brunt of the damage. After reading a article on Kotaku, I started thinking. What are your guys views on violent games? I feel as if when the unknown is presented to you, you need something to blame. It just so happens violent video games are an easy target.

Here is the article that made me start to think.
http://kotaku.com/5970039/after-sandy-h ... t=55455036

Edit* Wrong URL lol

[DJ-Daz]

20 little kids, are gone. All because some very disturbed individual was doing his own, real life perversion of what we do online every day.

And there's the difference, online and offline.
3 letters. But it's a world apart.

This is my rantings here:
viewtopic.php?f=75&t=5944#p36393

The Sun are already portraying Adam Lanza as a loner who plays violent video games. Lanza has been described as a "goth" a "loner" and a "genius" as cops try to work out a motive for the bloodbath.
https://www.thesun.co.uk (now redacted completely)

So the Sun's agenda is violence in video games, but what about films and TV? There's always violence and anger in Eastenders, Corrie, and even Emmerdale, so you don't have to look very far to find it.

But as I've been told by several therapists the damage is done when we go to school by the bullying (physical and psychological). I think I turned to games as a release and to gain some sort control. Had I had access to guns would it have turned out any different? I honestly don't know. But I seriously doubt being a video game player made me more violent.

But back then the best detail we could expect would be these:


Now Adam Lanza would have started playing at say 5 years old, thats 15 years ago, so what could he have seen?
Carmageddon would have been one, Doom, Doom 2, G-Police, The House of The Dead and many more, and yes I've listed some of the more violent games. But they're hardly immersive and likely to kick off a child into psychosis.

Recent studies have actually found that a lot of people live with the psychosis gene and it does nothing to their personality, but you need both the gene and either severe bullying or/and bad parenting to cause a trigger and even then you need to develop certain traits that caring parents and family will probably pick up on, and by all accounts his family cared for him. So why would he go off the deep end and do something like this? I guess we'll never know since he took his own life, by the way, psycho's don't kill themselves, they feel invulnerable and above everyone else.

So more than likely it was done in anger, but at whom and at what? Again we'll probably never know. But I seriously doubt it was video games.

I do think however that adults should monitor what their children play and BBFC and PEGI ratings are there for a reason. Any adult who allows children younger than 18 to play Call of Duty should be held accountable and prosecuted publicly, maybe the Sun should print those stories instead!



I can also see this incident and this one to tighten or even seize guns in America. I think this could lead to civil war if they're not careful. Imagine those who dont like guns asking those with guns to hand them over. It'll be a war that won't last long.

Guns don't kill people, people kill people. But guns make it easier, faster and give a larger body count. Taking guns away won't stop senseless killing like this, but it will make it harder.

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Then Charlie mentioned that on the same day (I think) some nutter went mad in China and tried to kill kids of the same age with a KNIFE.
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012 ... s-in-china

I have well documented mental problems of my own, and if I can tell the difference between right and wrong then so can everyone else, everyone that is apart from Psycho and Socio-paths. While these two groups usually know the difference, their impulses aren't kept in check like everyone else.

Video games don't kill people, people kill people.


Violence and bullying is the key though. Combine that with the afore mentioned psycho gene... and the result is never going to be good.

[Dr. Solomon Graves]

Oh wow i didn't even see that post.