Assassination Generation: Video Games, Aggression, and the Psychology of Killing Grossman Dave
The author of the 400,000-copy bestseller On Killing reveals how violent video games have ushered in a new era of mass homicide -- and what we must do about it.Paducah, Kentucky, 1997: a 14-year-old…
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The author of the 400,000-copy bestseller On Killing reveals how violent video games have ushered in a new era of mass homicide -- and what we must do about it.Paducah, Kentucky, 1997: a 14-year-old boy shoots eight students in a prayer circle at his school.Littleton, Colorado, 1999: two high school seniors kill a teacher, twelve other students, and then themselves.Utoya, Norway, 2011: a political extremist shoots and kills sixty-nine participants in a youth summer camp.Newtown, Connecticut, 2012: a troubled 20-year-old man kills 20 children and six adults at the elementary school he once attended.What links these and other horrific acts of mass murder? A young person's obsession with video games that teach to kill.Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, who in his perennial bestseller On Killing revealed that most of us are not "natural born