I think the lack of coverage is mostly due to it being on a native reserve. As bad as we in Canada treat our natives, the US is much worse. Natives in America are hardly even on the radar. I honostly don't think the average American knows or cares very much about the natives of their land.
As far as the video game blame goes, its too hard to say. I have read many studies on this and written reports on it for Uni and there are so many differing opinions, you can't say anything for sure. I don't think anyone believes that a video game can turn your average kid into a killer, but studies do show that violent video game raise the level of aggresion in their players, and I know way too many kids who have listened to too many 2pac and 50 cent Cds and turned into little thugs.
Having said that, I'm a former hadcore Unreal Tournament player and a listener of gangster rap who has no intentions or desires to hurt anyone but I think the wrong person who is very impressionable can be affected by almost anything and use it as a trigger to go off and do something stupid.
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