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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PrairieGhost" data-source="post: 209063" data-attributes="member: 704">Not all people turn into school shooters, but not all people are normal and some react badly.  Even those don't act out their aggression, but many are more aggressive for a day or so after gaming for hours.  How do they know?  They do brain scans while people are gaming.  The frontal lobs where reason resides are not that stimulated, but the middle portion of the brain where reaction occurs is stimulated.  Science has identified what portions of the brain process different functions.  The middle portion is not rational, but the same as an animal brain.  During WWII it's estimated only 27% of soldiers fired their weapon at someone.  WWII was higher, I can't remember the number.  However, currently they use the same type of videos our kids play to train soldiers.  They have identified that only 2% of people have the capacity to kill.  There is a mechanism built into our brain to keep us from destroying each other.  The person who wrote the book I was reading is a retired Lt Col. army.  He says military psychologists have shown them of all the training they do that flipping the switch on that resistance to use a weapon against someone is the most important.  Current soldiers use their weapon in an area of conflict 95% of the time.  Back to the brain scans.  Following gamers for years they find that those who start at a very young age stimulating the middle portion of the brain have a less developed forward cortex.  Often preschool children have not yet developed social skills and get sent home from school 3.8 times more often than any other grade.  They interviewed 38 thousand parents before their children went to pre school.  They asked simple questions to put parents at ease.  For example they asked what's your childs favorite TV show.  They could find no correlation with these young people.  Nearly by accident years later as they are again searching to find why some of thee kids were violent with their little peers they found a correlation they were not looking for.  Those kids were watching violence in their cartoons.  If a parent isn't present with a kid to tell them right from wrong they learn from what they watch.  Brains in small children learn much faster than you and I.  They are like sponges and everything is taken in as a learning experience.  I don't have that much respect for the old psychologists that had no real data they could put their fingers on to say this is why little Johnny has problems.  Today with brain scans outside stimuli can be tracked right to the portion of the brain that processes different stimuli.  An adult can watch the same program as a child and different areas of the brain react.  What has little to no effect on an 18 year old does affect a six year old.  When you take one of those 2% who would have no problem shooting at a person and sit him at the gaming screen for six to ten hours a day for ten years problems occur.  Only slightly in many, but of more affect in a few.  It's a numbers game, but those extreme few are going to get liberals taking away the rights of many. The first mass school shooting occurred in 1975 and are increasing.  Does anyone have a better answer?Edit: I would expect everyone one here to think to themselves it hasn't bothered me, or it hasn't bothered my kids.  We would have to have maybe 10,000 people on this site and that one would have to be honest to say "ya I would like to shoot someone".  Don't think everyone is as normal as you are.  Take that one and set him in front of Grand Theft Auto for ten hours a day for a number of years and you will have a person who can't wait to see a real head explode.  We would see that in most cases as a slight uptick in the murder rate.  Maybe not in Chicago.</blockquote>

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