Are violent video games training our children to kill?

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Cops say he lived in -- house filled with guns and ahead.

Games video games violent ones apparently that Kirk perhaps could have led Adam Lanza.

To play.

So are today's games training our children to kill lieutenant colonel Dave Grossman is a former psychology professor from West Point and the author of the book.

-- -- -- -- -- The morning entered.

The book is on killing -- cited his work on killing -- on the website is or get bulletproof mind are Carl power and end.

I predicted this guys we knew this is common.

The kids -- Davis Jones -- middle school column but on the high school Virginia Tech in the colleges this generation give us so movie massacred -- and and and and master and a first grade classroom and sandy hook.

I hope when -- we gonna connect the dots on all of this such as this is a very sick world -- -- children played the sickest games are marxists or just movies.

And and commit the circus acts we've ever seen in history you know we got to get tired -- a world where every kid in America practices.

-- government -- from the kids come to kill.

Yet we we gotta get tired live in the world you know where are -- struck the -- Colonel were looking of one of the -- gets in this is one of the most realistic -- that this is one of the things that that you know people.

We'll say hey look it's just the video game.

But unfortunately.

When you start early enough he desensitize.

You and eventually you're just pulling the trigger it's no longer game.

But it you know it in some cases and you have -- -- it a lot of gamers have gone on to do some really.

Violent stuff.

Every one of our school killers has never been a juvenile mass murder in the schools in human history.

And now we've got -- -- -- across Germany there were two massacres in Germany that the column by an all hall Finland's had three we saw -- Canada.

In Belgium a sickle governor daycare center with a butcher knife.

And a half twelve little babies in the crib in China they're coming in what knives into the kindergarten classes and -- and the kids.

These crimes have never happened in human history.

We feed the sickest movies and the -- -- -- -- -- -- I'm our nation's number one trigger law -- been more contact hours more man hours more time on the road trade and military and law enforcement.

Than anybody else in America we -- How -- use simulators to create the conditions to enable people to -- combat.

Beat the opera condition to classical conditioning the social learning models the desensitization.

The programming.

That we put in simulators for cops -- military.

Is being done with these video games at these right colonel this we gotta get -- we can't get passionate fans along the schools -- refused to protect our kids.

We got to protect your kids -- protect our money internally -- greater weight you made a great point you stated the case it it's obvious that.

Attention needs be pay to -- how we fix it.

What number one the parents are going to be informed.

And here we have laws protecting kids from guns and pornography and our -- Alcohol sex automobile firearms on all these others are laws that help the parents as a minimum parents have to be informed on M rated video game -- the same as an X rated movie.

-- means NC seventeen no child under seven did you play this game if your child was playing an M rated games to promote.

-- -- -- -- -- reason to -- or not not -- cure will be a killer you know but all the killers played these games and you may be the first victim is what is on your absolutely and and we don't know the connection with this kid and video games but it's definitely something they're looking at.

-- a lieutenant.

It colonel Dave Grossman the author of the book on killing -- -- thank you very much.

You -- for mine -- -- take a look at it we're gonna make a difference will do thank you colonel -- us.

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