It is not just one thing, it is a multifactorial or combination of things. Broken families are also Involved and I’m not suggesting every kid that plays the violence promoting games is going to be similarly affected. Guns were actually more accessible when I was a kid in the 60s. During hunting season, they were often brought to HS. I had my own rifle and revolver from the time I was 14. No one ever talked about shooting anyone.
[[It is not just one thing, it is a multifactorial or combination of things. Broken families are also Involved and I’m not suggesting every kid that plays the violence promoting games is going to be similarly affected. Guns were actually more accessible when I was a kid in the 60s. During hunting season, they were often brought to HS. I had my own rifle and revolver from the time I was 14. No one ever talked about shooting anyone.]]
Growing up my girl friends older brothers went hunting after school . Their guns were in their trucks when they went to school . I learned to shoot young too and no one shot each.
Maybe with a bb gun by accident every once in a while but kids did not do this to each other. We even watched violent cartoons and read comic books . You are right most people had two parents (very important)
We don’t know about this kids background . He was adopted and he is 19. He was born at time when cocaine use was really heavy in South Florida (I lived there then and I can tell you almost everyone did drugs and I didn’t that was one of the reasons I played so much with computers and video games ) Lot of factors can contribute to stuff but drugs is huge part of why there are so many screwed up kids today.
I took care of a few kids whose parents were drug addicts when they were born and I can tell you that were nothing like my own children . Their thinking is really screwed up . One of these kids was one of my nephews and he is ok now but it took a lot to straighten that kid out and I had to set a lot of limits .
I did play Quake and I did let my kids play games but I did not let them play FPS (we had a blast playing Mario Kart and stuff like that )