Hmmm... lets see... if video games caused young white men to become violent, we would be living in an anarchy in the insert futuristic dystopian movie here sense. Honestly, these shootings are easily blamed on simple idiocy. Some idiot gets it into his head that some people deserve to die, and trains for awhile to do so. Not because of video games, not because he was beaten as a child, and not because he can't control his own actions because the voices in his head told him to do it. Simple idiocy does it. I'm not talking about illiteracy, or lack of knowledge, I'm talking about lack of common sense and decency! For example, I will reveal a bit of myself. I am an amoral, apatheistic computer nerd who would sooner believe in the creations of a 20th century American author than any established deity (which, if you know what apatheism is, then you know my stance) or religion. But I don't go out and kill people! This is because as a somewhat functional member of society, I realize that it's a bad idea to go out and shoot people simply because I disagree with them! These idiots who do so lack a little thing I call common sense! If they had it, if they had even the slightest inkling of it, they'd realize, hmmm... you know... this is a bad idea! It's like someone cut off their basic survival instinct: If one wishes to survive, one follows some basic rules of society. And one of those basic rules is you don't go out and fill lots of teenagers full of lead and blow up government buildings. People are so bloody dumb these days! Violent video games only make it easier for these idiots to train and make excuses to their families, and to the other morons who want to ban the games because of this, I facilitate this argument:
Lets look back at history, folks. Let me take you back to 1920s to 1930s America. During this time, a little thing called prohibition was tried. This gave rise to a few small inconveniences such as organized crime, bootlegging, and speakeasies. In the end, they decided it was a better idea to just let people imbibe a bit of liquor, rather than tell them to go stuff it and try water instead. Banning video games would probably give rise to a very similar situation, except this time, the population is a LOT bigger, and a lot more easily PO'd. Look at hackers like LulzSec... and no one told them they couldn't play video games! They just did it because they wanted to! You know that old saying? "Idle hands are the devil's workshop"? Well, lets draw on some demonology here: video games are like a low level demon who has the habit of making women take off their clothes, but banishing this demon would make room for Baal, Lord of the Flies, along with Legion, Beelzebub, and possibly Lucifer, if he feels like it, to come barreling through on Harleys causing the rest of the world all kinds of nasty problems like plagues, war, and anarchy! No one needs all that... no one at all. So, in conclusion, don't blame video games, don't even blame society... Blame the shooter. Blame him for being bored with his life and not having the sense to find a harmless outlet. He's an idiot. I have no pity for fools.