
Assassination Generation
Video Games, Aggression, and the Psychology of Killing
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Dave Grossman
The author of the 400,000-copy best seller On Killing reveals how violent video games have ushered in a new era of mass homicide - and what we must do about it.
Paducah, Kentucky, 1997: a 14-year-old boy shoots eight students in a prayer circle at his school. Littleton, Colorado, 1999: two high school seniors kill a teacher, 12 other students, and then themselves. Utoya, Norway, 2011: a political extremist shoots and kills 69 participants in a youth summer camp. Newtown, Connecticut, 2012: a troubled 20-year-old man kills 20 children and six adults at the elementary school he once attended.
What links these and other horrific acts of mass murder? A young person's obsession with video games that teach to kill.
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, who in his perennial best seller On Killing revealed that most of us are not "natural born killers" - and who has spent decades training soldiers, police, and others who keep us secure to overcome the intrinsic human resistance to harming others and to use firearms responsibly when necessary - turns a laser focus on the threat posed to our society by violent video games.
Drawing on crime statistics, cutting-edge social research, and scientific studies of the teenage brain, Col. Grossman shows how video games that depict antisocial, misanthropic, casually savage behavior can warp the mind - with potentially deadly results. His audiobook will become the focus of a new national conversation about video games and the epidemic of mass murders that they have unleashed.
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Outstanding insight.
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As usual, outstanding
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Excellent book
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I am inspired to share this book with my daughters school principal and teachers, psychologists and resource teachers. I have to assume that they are unfamiliar with this body of knowledge; or they would have aggressively promoted the information to help parents make better choices. I pray that my girls educators become familiar with the risks associated with media and content and are inspired them selves to work toward implementing the media fast.
Both scary and inspiring
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I would, and have already, recommended this book to anyone who has young children, or deals with them on a daily basis (teachers, caregivers, etc.). I don’t have any children of my own, but I am an uncle to my brothers 2, soon to be 3, children and I can see how media (especially cellphones and tablets) take up so much of their young lives. At family gatherings, while all the older family members sit together and visit, all the young children can be found inside watching TV or playing video games. Something has to change, and I think this book gives the necessary insight on things to be aware of and ways to change.
Very Enlightening
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Amazing read.
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Scary but true and with a possible bright future
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the most important book on gun violence. Ever.
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Must Listen!
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Important book for all to listen
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