Where Politics And Video Games Collide

@hayabusa75 :

In fact, Grossman specialized himself in the act of killing, and the psychological cost of killing, in war as well as in society. He also studied the story of violence, weaponry and combat, but his main speciality remains "killology", the "psychology of killing". After more than a decade of research he wrote the book "On Killing" in 1995/1996, alledgely recommended for reading in West Point.

He had the theory that media violence conditioned children to kill the same way the army did for soldiers, but without army's discipline. However, even though he already targeted video games at that time, he was quite moderate. I think he was only aware of Lightgun games, and he didn't like them at all. But he made it clear he wasn't against all video games (you read exactly what he said about it in "On Killing" at this address : http://www.gamepoliticsforums.com/showpost.php?p=6692&postcount=9

But school shootings changed that. First, he is inhabitant of Jonesboro, he was there during the Jonesboro massacre, and he was training psychologists so that they could help victims, survivor and their families. So he saw a lot of horrible things. Second, he was an "expert witness" in Paducah, when he discovered that Michael Carneal, the Paducah killer, had been playing "Doom" among other things. So he became aware of first-person shooters. And finally, there was Columbine, and after, his second book, the over-cited "Stop Teaching Our Kids To Kill", where his positions became radical.

Since then, he's quoted as an "expert in media violence", or an "expert in the effects of media violence". And he wrote a third essay, "On Combat", that deals more with fighting in general. But two chapters are related to media and video game violence, and they're even more radical than before. You can read them at this address :
http://www.killology.com/on_combat_ch2.htm
http://www.killology.com/on_combat_ch7.htm