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Dr. Phil
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007Dr. Phil jumps on the exploiting VA Tech for personal grievances bandwagon. He apparently said of the VA Tech massacre on Larry King Live:
You cannot tell me — common sense tells you that if these kids are playing video games, where they’re on a mass killing spree in a video game, it’s glamorized on the big screen, it’s become part of the fiber of our society. You take that and mix it with a psychopath, a sociopath or someone suffering from mental illness and add in a dose of rage, the suggestibility is too high.
He’s right, you know. Video games + psycho/socioppath _+ dose of rage = potential mass murderer. Here are some other recipes for potential mass murders:
School shootings haven’t increased since the onset of violent video games. They’re as exceedingly rare as ever. In fact, juvenile violent crime has dropped over the last 15 years (though there was very slight blip upward last year), the period over which we’ve seen the rise of violent video games.
More thoughts about crazy, violent people
Radley Balko reminds the timid public that in order to keep the peace with violent, murderous psycho/sociopaths, we need to walk around on egg shells: He’s right, you know. Video games + psycho/socioppath _+ dose of rage = potential mass…