Dr. Phil Blames Video Games for Virginia Tech Shooting
Along with Jack Thompson is another person that is pinning the blame of the Virginia Tech shooting to video games. Phillip Calvin “Dr. Phil” McGraw, Ph.D. said the following speaking on Larry King Live on CNN.
“The problem is we are programming these people as a society. You cannot tell me – common sense tells you – that if these people are playing video games where they’re on a mass killing spree in a video game, it’s glamorized on the big screen, it’s become part of the fiber of our society. You take that and mix it with a psychopath, a sociopath, or someone suffering from mental illness, add in a dose of rage, the suggestibility is just too high. And we’re going to have to start dealing with that. We’re going to have to start addressing those issues and recognizing that the mass murderers of tomorrow are the children of today that are being programmed with this massive violence overdose.”
The identity of the shooter was just recently revealed, but there was no information regarding his intention. Officials said that he was looking for his girlfriend, but he had no real relationship with any of the victims. Wouldn’t it be better if for now we can try to heal the pain and sorrow that has afflicted a nation, and let the investigators try to figure out the root of the problem instead of assuming that Cho Seung-hui was an avid gamer that simulated his whole killing spree as a first person shooter?
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