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Do video games influence #13239868 08/08/19 03:05 AM
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Do video games influence some of the mass murderers ?

Re: Do video games influence [Re: slim 285] #13239870 08/08/19 03:07 AM
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Re: Do video games influence [Re: slim 285] #13239879 08/08/19 03:11 AM
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I can't help but think they do. "fulfill your call of duty fantasy".


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Re: Do video games influence [Re: slim 285] #13239890 08/08/19 03:16 AM
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They teach tactics that no young child would ever be able to learn. I think they play a part

Re: Do video games influence [Re: slim 285] #13239898 08/08/19 03:24 AM
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It's not video games, otherwise you'd see similar mass shootings in other countries. It's not a lack of God, otherwise you'd see similar mass shootings in other countries that are much less religious. It's ideology, encouragement, and easy access to guns.

Re: Do video games influence [Re: slim 285] #13239900 08/08/19 03:27 AM
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Ask yourself this. If video games were rounded up and destroyed, do you think this stuff would stop? I don’t. Do you think they would be cut in half? I don’t.

I don’t think they’re much of anything other than entertainment for some.

Re: Do video games influence [Re: slim 285] #13239904 08/08/19 03:32 AM
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It’s not video games. Also, video games have a rating system similar to movies. If young kids are playing violent video games, they shouldn’t be, just like young kids shouldn’t be watching shoot ‘em up movies.

But no, violent video games aren’t causing or influencing mass shootings.


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Re: Do video games influence [Re: Tallgrass05] #13239905 08/08/19 03:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Tallgrass05
It's not video games, otherwise you'd see similar mass shootings in other countries.

Where did this kid get the experience to go shoot up a Walmart and escape the scene with so many dead? He had no military experience.


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Re: Do video games influence [Re: slim 285] #13239907 08/08/19 03:33 AM
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Re: Do video games influence [Re: slim 285] #13239916 08/08/19 03:51 AM
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Are video games the cause of mass shootings? No. Do they influence mass shootings? Probably to a small extent in some cases. There are way, way bigger issues than the kid played Call of Duty.


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Re: Do video games influence [Re: slim 285] #13239939 08/08/19 04:38 AM
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It starts with the family. A lot of kids don't have dads around anymore. The divorce rate is high and even in the church it is at 49%....

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It starts with the family. A lot of kids don't have dads around anymore. The divorce rate is high and even in the church it is at 49%....


I agree wholeheartedly with this statement! We live in a throw away and replace society. From TV’s to marriages.


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Re: Do video games influence [Re: Urban Fisher] #13239945 08/08/19 04:45 AM
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Yes damnit they do influence childrens’ brains. Cause them to shoot? Nobody can say for sure.

Left to his or her own devices, a kid will spend from 12 to 18 hours a day in front of a console. This places his still maturing brain in an alternate universe. A universe where mistakes are never realized. A universe where responsibilities are never assigned. A universe where lines are blurred between reality and fantasy. A universe where a brain that is still learning its way through life is overloaded with fantastical realities that simply overwhelms it.

The kid never stops thinking about the game. The game becomes quite real, occupying his physical reality, allowing him no room for any competing reality. Occupying his sleep, invading his dreams. It totally consumes his life.

IT IS A TERRIBLE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL ADDICTION!

If you have not seen this, you will not believe it. Your brain simply will not accept it because it is not real. Your brain was raised on reality and responsibility. Your brain knows the difference between a video game and the game of life.

That is why we as adults just can not endure playing the games. They simply bore us to death.

My son went through this. I was the only one that saw it and fought it. Everybody else rewarded his addiction by gifting him more equipment and software. ‘It makes him happy.’ I took it away, destroyed it, and made him watch me. That was real. I made sure he knew that. I alienated myself from my family on both sides to save my son from the addiction. My son hated and despised me for banning him from his preferred reality. He ended up leaving home to feed his addiction but reality finally won. A job, a car, a paycheck, a meal. Those things began to show up on his radar. He made it by the skin of his teeth.

He is in his mid thirties now and we are good. Many times when we are alone, he will want to talk about it. I think it still occupies a small corner of his brain. He tells me how bad the addiction was. He thanks me for destroying his equipment. He tells me of his thirty something friends that are still lost in the game. He just does not understand it now. His brain finally grew up and rejected the alternate reality. The game still calls him. He still tries to play occasionally but he has lost the connection and just does not ‘get it’ anymore.

I guess the endorphin rush is no longer triggered by the game and the physical addiction is gone. That part I do not understand. But something is different now.

We have been here before TFF. You all will flame me. I am old. I am slow and stupid. I am out of the main stream. I cling to my tinfoil hat. Go ahead. I know where reality is. I know what I saw. I know what my son went through as we went through it together and alone.

I hope you never have to go there. But if you must, go there armed for bear. Go there knowing that you are doing the right thing.


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