Where Politics And Video Games Collide

While we always have pointed to the fact that violent criem - and youth vioelnce in particular - has been dpwn since the early 90's, that it's been reported recently by the FBI that violent crime has risen again in recent years suggests we may no longer have that argument to fall back on. :(

That having been said, howver, I think there are more complex factors at work than video games.

Every time [officers] take down a gang house, there’s always one thing that will always be there,” Grossman says. “It’s a video game. The video games are their newspaper, their television, their all-consuming narrative. And their video games are all cop-killer, criminal simulators.”

As has been pointed out other times now, video games ar ubiquitous now. You can't find anyone growing up today who at one time or another hasn't played a video game. Consoles are as commonplace in a person's home now as a TV or a microwave oven, so it shouldn't be any surprise to see one in some gang banger's hideout. It's a fallacious argument an Grossman knows it.