it's pretty obvious when the news media tries use this as a form of character study, they use it as a barometer as to why a particular homicidal maniac differs from the norm. But more often than not, it only causes there to be misconceptions. And whenever it is brought up, the ignorance on the part of those reporting is made astoundingly clear. But that's what happens when there's so little information about what would lead a person to commit such a heinous act. It leads people, ones that should know better, to make baseless suppositions from inconsequential details of the persons life. Did he have a preference for one fast food chain over the other, did he like My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, and ultraviolent films? why is it when it's known that perpetrators of these types of shootings liked video games, that it's seen as a negative? It could be because, unlike Taken (a movie about a single man shooting his way through France), video games have not yet reached the level of social consciousness and acceptance that films and books have. The amount of utter bullsh!t that is generated when ever people try to rationalize the victims motive with the activity of playing a video game as one of the causal factors that lead to them shooting up a school is beyond measure. Video games do not cause people to go insane, they do not make people turn into gun crazy child murdering psychopaths. They were already fücked in the head, and them playing playing video games is no more of a leading cause for their actions if they happened to be *catholic as well.
as an aside: finding out that someone plays video games offers no better an insight to the motivations of the killer than if it were made known that he liked cheeseburgers without cheese.
*It's funny that when those news stories about the pedophilic priests brake out, christianity is never viewed as the leading cause for their despicable acts.
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