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Ten years ago my son’s friend brought a popular new video game to my house. It was a James Bond action game. After setting things up, I sat down and watched them play the game for ten minutes in complete shock. The experience literally made me sick to my stomach.
My son and his friend eagerly moved James Bond from location to location shooting “villains” in the head at point blank with assault rifles. The boys would quickly reload then send James Bond out to shoot more people. It was unbelievable. I remember getting chills thinking that millions of young boys were starting to play these games for hours at a time. Shooting people, shooting people, shooting people.
I am not the least surprised that most of the mass murderers in this country have a history of violent video game addiction. (See the list below.) It seemed inevitable to me ten years ago.
These games are created by some of the most talented computer programmers in the world. The video game industry is actually larger and more profitable than the film industry. There are literally billions of dollars at stake and celebrities are now getting a piece of the action, getting paid millions of dollars for providing voices for the heroes and villains of the action games.
The video game industry is creating monsters and mainstream media has nothing to say about the impact these games have on our young people. The question is: Why so quiet? Could it be because most major media companies own movie studios? Why is establishment media so quiet on this issue? The simple answer: money.
What a perfect image on Capital Hill yesterday. Congressional hypocrites sitting on their fannies doing nothing while protecting with all their might the rights of Hollywood to poison are young people with the pornography of violence. It’s disgraceful.
From MovieGuide.org:
With video games becoming more and more realistic, we need to be extremely cautious as to what our youth and young people are being exposed to on a daily basis. Fantasy violence can leave a troubled mind craving more and more until they act out in reality. There is a violent cultural script that too many children are influenced to live out. To dig further, here is a list of some of the most violent horrible killings in the past few years; all of these killers had an obsession with violent video games.
The problem is Hollywood will cling to their guns more tightly than the NRA. Too much money at stake.
Watch this great video to understand Hollywood’s great hypocrisy when it comes to guns.
From MovieGuide.org:
Here’s a list of the mass murders linked with video games:source Movie Guide.org
1. Adam Lanza, Sandy Hook Elementary, was a frequent player of violent first-person shooter video games. It was said his existence largely involved playing violent computer video games in a bedroom.
2. James Holmes, went on a rampage in a movie theater showing The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado in July 2012, He was a frequent player of violent video games including World of Warcraft, an infamously addictive role-playing game.
3 Jared Lee Loughner, Tucson, who shot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed six others in Tucson in January 2011, was both mentally ill and a video gamer.
4. Eric Harris, based on his journal, a panel of psychologists, psychiatrists and FBI agents point to Harris’ contempt for others and his total lack of empathy and conscience as evidence of his psychopathic tendencies. He also enjoyed violent video games.
5. Elliot Rodger, killed seven young men and women, including himself. He was hooked on violent video games from a young age from his own admission, hiding himself in World of Warcraft, where he felt comfortable and secure.
6. Nehemiah Griego, killed five, including his mother, father and his three younger siblings. He loved playing violent video games and even enjoyed talking about them to crime investigators.
7. Jacob Tyler Roberts, played violent video games (his rampage enacted a violent scene in Grand Theft Auto)
8. Anders Behring Breivik shot 68 people dead at a youth camp of the Norwegian Labor party, another nine in a bombing of government buildings According to the judgment rendered against him, he liked playing violent games. He actually used the video game Call of Duty to train for his shooting massacre.
9. Michael Carneal shot girls as they prayed in a prayer group. Carneal never moved his feet during his shootings, and never fired far to the left or right, but instead fired only once at each target that appeared, just as a player of video games maximizes his game score by shooting only once at each victim, in order to hit as many targets as possible.
10. Jose Reyes, a 12-year-old boy who opened fire with a semiautomatic handgun at Sparks Middle School last October, killing a teacher and wounding two students before turning the gun on himself, had watched violent video games for months.
11. Dylann Storm Roof, spent much of his time playing violent video games.
12. Jeff Weise, a 16-year-old, shot dead nine people at and near his high school in Red Lake, Minnesota, had an obsession with violent animation.
13. Chris Harper-Mercer, shot dead nine people and another seven injured in a community college in southern Oregon.
14. Evan Ramsey, snuck a shot gun into his high school and shot a student and the principal and wounded two others. He claims that a video game Doom distorted his version of reality: “I did not understand that if I pull out a gun and shoot you … you’re not getting back up. You shoot a guy in Doom, and he gets back up. You have got to shoot the things in Doom eight or nine times before it dies.”
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