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| Washington navy yard gunman 'obsessed with violent video games' |
| 2013-09-18 |
| [TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] The Washington Navy Yard gunman Aaron Alexis played violent video games including Call of Duty for up to 16 hours at a time and friends believe it could have pushed him towards becoming a mass murderer. Nah. Couldn't be. They're just blasting zombies. Aren't they? From TFA: The darker side to Alexis's character saw him playing violent "zombie" video games in his room, sometimes from 12.30pm until 4.30am. I do that every Friday! But not Call of Duty. Arma 2. And I usually start at 2230 hrs. And end at 0230. I guess that make me a piker. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Its not a gu problem. Nor is it a violence problem at least not primarily. Its a mental health system problem, and a system that provides large areas of disarmed citizens for the violent mentally ill. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2013-09-18 22:02 |
| #2 Considering the MASSIVE number of folks who play violent vido games compared to the number that actually commit any crime what-so-ever shows a very lopsided statistic so as to be meaningless. Videogames did not make the guy a nut. They probably provided an outlet for his anger for awhile but clearly a video game is not prepared to be a health care professional. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2013-09-18 14:26 |
| #1 Yeah, so? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2013-09-18 12:32 |