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From =: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/12/14/nine-facts-about-guns-and-mass-shootings-in-the-united-states/ The rise of violent video games started about mid 1990s with Doom and all that and has ramped up since then. Does it look like that had any effect whatsoever on that curve? Violent video games may be the tipping point that leads insane people to do insane things, but they're insane so nothing is going to work in regards to them other than improved mental health infrastructure. America has always been a violent nation. That's just who we have been, and will most likely continue to be. Finding the events you mentioned perfectly acceptable would be the case if video games had or had never existed in the first place. Actually, gun violence has increased in the US over the years, and I'm also not sure why you're bringing guns into this when this is about video games, and how violent, savage behaviour is becoming more accepted each day. Also, the Virginia Tech shooter played violent video games, so there's proof that violence in video games factor in to real life violence. I don't think you fully understood my post; I didn't say violent video games are solely to blame for people perceiving savage violence as normal, but they do play a part in the grand scheme of things, which is what I think the CNN reporter was trying to get at; she's criticising the fact that video games have basically shown people that violence is good and acceptable, which shouldn't be the case in a normal and functioning society. This is all further enforced by the fact that most Americans were celebrating Gadaffi getting dragged through the streets of Libya. Such barbaric behaviour shouldn't be condoned but violent video games are playing a factor in this, and telling people that violence is acceptable. Also, I find it amusing that you justify extreme violence simply because "America has always been a violent nation". That kind of thinking is what leads to genocides, massacres and events that could otherwise be avoided.
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