The Change Mariner

Violent video games are training children to kill?

HeraldNet
If a parent wanted their children to develop attitudes like Gary Ridgway, the confessed killer of at least 48 women, these games might provide a good training ground.
... First, people were thoroughly chilled by confessed serial killer Ridgway's admissions and descriptions a week ago.
Even the sanitized details within the King County prosecutor's summary are so bad that the cover page warns that the report "... contains graphic and disturbing descriptions," which may not be suitable for every reader.

... Second, these games are not movies. Nor are they spectator games. Rather, they are simulations.
...The youngsters who hold the joysticks and sit at the keyboards hold the guns and axes. Young players practice cutting heads off. They rehearse shooting police officers and urinating on them.

... Third, the Mothers Against Violence group sent underage youngsters into familiar stores, and 15 out of 17 of the stores sold adult games to children under 12.

... One danger for children lies in any tendency of parents to think "not my child."

Before drawing that conclusion they should consider four facts.

Video games are expected to reach $20 billion in sales this year. That is a sizable piece of the growing economy everybody is hoping for, and it works directly against what most parents want for their children.

Every year, enough video games are sold to put two of them in every American household.

More than nine of every 10 American children play video games.

Research shows that playing violent video games increases children's violent thoughts and aggressive behaviors.

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