Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "'Inside Edition' Blames Videogames For Shooting Using Misattributed Quote" video.

Of course it is not video games, especially not in the Crumbley case. But Grand Theft Auto, as opposed to guitar or keyboards, is part of the culture, and it's alienating. The time you spend on video games you don't spend on garage bands.
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What does Rittenhouse have to do with this? Yikes.
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How many songs have you played on guitar?
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Think of all the young black men who are not shot during a police encounter. So glad to hear there's no problem, then. Without comparing players to nonplayers, no generalization is possible, much less a claim that video games cause violence. But you don't know whether they do create a small risk, by comparison to not playing them, either.
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The entire world does not play video games.
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@hunger4wonder Not only that, but there are still people who know "its" is possessive and "it's" is a contraction of "it is" (or "it has"). Crazy.
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But Oppenheimer used it, after the first atom bombs were detonated.
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@carolr4871 I had honestly thought everyone had heard it. I'm sorry.
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Has anyone ever done a controlled study, comparing kids who play video games with a group that doesn't play video games at all? Where would you find them? And would they be so odd by comparison to everyone else as to make the results impossible to generalize from? Saying video games do or don't desensitize people to violence makes no sense. When you point to all the kids who play video games and never commit violence, it is comparable to pointing to all the young black men who are not shot to death during a police encounter. It tells you nothing either way.
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Only he went to shoot up his school? Where ya been? No, we'd have to compare a huge number of players and non-players, to see if there is any statistically significant correlation. I doubt we could find groups large enough to conclude anything.
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@Yoshimatsu414 "Only he went to go shoot up a school" isn't scientific evidence of no correlation. School shootings are relatively rare. You would need to find very large groups of young people who do and do not play video games and then follow them. I'm not saying video games are correlated with violence in any way. I'm saying your observation is not the methodology for determining whether any correlation exists, and in any case you have to start with a null hypothesis and see if there is evidence to contradict it.
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@Yoshimatsu414 Anyway, we have lots of school shootings. A school by me just went on lockdown the other day when guns were discovered. No one was hurt.
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So the Japanese don't have time now for reading, math, and piano or violin? Hmm . . .
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@corujariousa My comment took issue with the claimed fact. I simply don't believe Japanese kids are playing tons of video games. They get more intense supervision, particularly from their mothers, and pressure to excel in school and music than American kids do. The two are not consistent, given that everyone's day is 24 hours.
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