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In reply to the discussion: Video games are evil [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)children. Doesn't mean they become killers or anything. But none of the studies found no link.
But this is what I mean. It should be looked at, studied, and considered. A discussion should be had and not dismissed outright.
I'm talking about violent video games, not movies.
Some countries have banned the bloodier video games. Australia did, along with assault weapons, and fixed their mass killings problem.
There are apparently just some of the more violent ones that seem to warrant the link....Mortal Kombat and some others.
Doesn't mean they should be banned. But to fix a problem, I think everything should be at least looked at. If the goal is to fix the problem and not just get rid of assault weapons (which is a worthy goal in and of itself). But to fix this particular problem requires looking at both causation and method, and at all angles.