Discussion Question blog post #2

Discuss whether video games are the main  cause for gun violence?
Alot of people may think that video games are a direct cause for gun violence, but their is still no evidence to prove this. Yes many high school shooters have played an extensive amount of video games, and they may have been inspired by the games, but those people were already crazy and detached from logic and reason to begin with. Brendan from the book "Give a boy a gun" by Todd Strasser, is an excellent example of such a person. Brendan is a cast out in his school who is constantly harassed by the jocks for being different, he has been disturbingly obsessed with killing the jocks since he moved to the town in 7th grade, it wasn't until 10th grade that he discovered the video game doom, which he played obsessively. "Brendan was seriously into [first-person shooter video games]. If you want to know the truth, so were alot of other kids who didn't do what he did." (79). Brendan went on to shoot up the school dance with his friend Gary, but this was not caused by the games, it was, just like at columbine, caused by him being harassed by the jocks at his own school everyday for years. To answer the question, no, video games do not directly cause gun violence by themselves, they require a demented mind and years of mistreatment by others.