badgenome said:
Yes, really. It can't be ruled out at this point as a contributing factor. I mean, I think this guy is a douche for saying that society (i.e., gubmint) should do all it can to stop such a travesty from ever happening again even after admitting that millions of people play such games without issue. These incidents are rare enough that we don't need to lose all sense of perspective and have the national freakout every goddamn time, and at a certain point the prescribed cure becomes worse than the disease. But at the same time it's certainly possible that a person with a clinical mental illness could be more likely to commit real acts of violence after playing violent games. |
Agreed he is a douche if only for that reason. And of course we shouldnt flip out about them because they are more rare, but only at this size. It depneds on the definition of mass shootings. How many people need to be shot for it to be a mass shooting? Because there are alot of shootings in this country.
When out of an entire group of people that play violent video games, and one of them kills a bunch of people and the difference is that person has a mental illness, the video games arent the issue. The mental illness is the issue, because it the the anomoly of the entire situation.
