An expert on the influence of violent video games believes such alleged “entertainment” may have played a role in last Friday’s massacre of children and adults at a Connecticut school.
Adam Lanza killed 20 kindergartners at Sandy Hook Elementary School and six adults last week in Newtown, then turned his gun on himself. He was thought to have been a fan of warfare video games.
Al Menconi, a Southern California-based family advocate who lectures on the influence of media, believes there is significant relationship between violent gaming and aggressive behavior.
Menconi
“When did you ever think that the most popular game is killing people?” he asks. “You can’t point at video gaming and say video gaming made my child pull that trigger — no, you can’t … and I’m not saying that.
“But I can say this, and research has backed me up: it has desensitized a whole generation of young people.”
Menconi points to research that reveals a direct physiological occurrence during a first-person shooter game and the gamer.
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The issue of desensitizing through the vicarious experience of gore-fest video games needs to be included in the discussions which will be ongoing after this tragic event. To lay the onus solely on the issue of gun control is a mistake of the worst order. Mental health needs examination as well due to the revelation of the mother being called to the schools on repeat occasions to deal with Adam Lanza’s meltdowns, and that she did not engage professional care to treat his condition.
Has anyone noticed that the shooter at the movie house and the one last week are bug eyed, like really doped out? And why is it young men committing these types of murders and not young women? More to this than being told…..
They look bug eyed probably because they are medicated with psyciatric medicine. There’s an article in WND today titled “Pshych Meds Linked To 90% of School Shootings.” A psychiatrist suspects that Adam Lanza’s violent behavior was caused by prescribed psychiatric medications but “it’s best to wait to find out whether his behavior does fit the template of a treatment-induced problem.” “Dr. Peter Breggin, a Harvard-trained psychiatrist, told WND it’s likely that problems for Lanza began with “getting tangled up” with psychiatric medicine. Breggin insisted there has been overwhelming scientific evidence for decades correlating psychiatrically prescribed drugs with violence. . . . . in 2003, Breggin concluded that SSRI drugs could be a factor in suicide, violence and other forms of extreme abnormal behavior, as evidenced in case reports, controlled clinical trials, and epidemiological studies in children and adults. Since the 1970s, Breggin has testified in approximately 100 trials, including one in which Judge Robert Heinrichs ruled the adverse effects of taking Prozac drove a 16-year-old in Winnipeg, Canada, to commit an unprovoked murder. Breggin insists that instead of psychiatric treatment, children of this kind need “more reaching out, more socialization, more caring, more involvement.” A British psychiatrist by the name of Dr. David Healy said, “Violence and other potentially criminal behavior caused by prescription drugs are medicine’s best kept secret.” Here’s a number of high-profile cases reported:
“*Kip Kinkel was withdrawing from Prozac and had been prescribed Ritalin when he murdered his mother and sepfather then shot 22 classmates, killing two, in 1998.
*Christopher Pittman was withdrawing from Luvox and from Paxil when he killed his paternal grandparents in 2001.
*Eic Harris was taking Luvox when he and fellow student Dylan Klebold killed 12 students and a teacher and wounded 24 others before turning their guns on themselves at Columbine High School in Colorado.
*At Virginia Tech in 2007, where 32 were murdered, authorities found ‘prescription medications related to the treatment of psychological problems had been found among Mr. Cho’s effects,’ according to the New York Times.”
So, all this talk about gun control is BS. Banning guns to the law-abiders is not the answer.
Gun Control is not the anwer but its the band aid and the easiest to go after, at least until we as people have had enough and it turns into a civil war
Gun Control is not the anwer but its the band aid and the easiest to go after, at least until we as people have had enough and it turns into a civil war
The Hollywood types are so eager to blame guns and responsible gun owners, they are a lot of the problem for these types of gun tragedies by their violent movies. This needs to be examined in the hearings also.