*Scapegoating video games and other violent media is nonsense*

[jeff47]

57. Again, your claim requires all killings to go up, not just mass killings.

Your claim is that video game violence triggers real-world violence in certain people. But video game violence is up, real-world violence is down. If it was a trigger, that could not be true.

What if it turned out that violent video games actually reduced real-world violence? What if people releasing their violent impulses in a virtual world reduced their propensity for real-world violence?

That story is as logically consistent as your claim, and benefits from actually fitting with the statistics. However, I will not claim it is true absent decent studies.

Our society would be better off with LESS glorified violence, not MORE.

One of your problems understanding this situation appears to be the belief that games actually glorify their violence. They aren't like movies. Games state, over and over again, that war is hell. That it causes nothing but pain. It's on TV and in movies where violence solves problems nicely and cleanly. We'd be much better off with people playing violent video games than watching violent movies and TV if your theory was true.