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Originally Posted by peter12
Clearly, PepsiFree is on to something. To say that external factors - such as media - have NO effect is obviously wrong.
Online forums like Reddit have been used as platforms to influence hate-inspired killings, why not violent video games?
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People have been running around like redknecks and dressing up in nazi paraphernalia long before violent video games. I really don't see what video games have to do with this incident. It looks like two loner kids who never had proper adult supervision. They developed into violent young adults.
I grew up in the era where young children didn't quite have violent video games. There were always kids who were pushing destructive activities like arson, BB guns, fire crackers too far.
If violent video games were such a problem, you would expect some correlation between violence and the ever increasing access to realistic and violent video games. Instead, you see the opposite. Stories like the one at issue, are always tragic, but far less common than they were 30 years ago.