Notice how I write if you are a normal person with a stable life and ordinary psyche etc you are ussually fine. However as many recent happenings show, there are also many cases of violence directly connected to movies/games/music videos etc. Just take the guy dressed up as joker in the batman movies who killed children in Belgium….. as an example. Was he affected by the joker in Batman? you can say no…. but you cannot deny how he made up exactly like that.
To say that people are not affected by movies/games/music is just plain out stupid???
You are forgetting one, mildly important fact. The fact is, judges in the US tend to let things slide for "mental illness". Every time someone commits a crime, and gets caught, they blame video games because they know it's practically a guaranteed "not guilty by reason of insanity", and thus they spend 6 months in a mental health facility being coddled until they're declared "fit for society", and released.
A woman in TN shot her husband in the back while he was asleep in bed. She got caught, and pleaded insanity. 6 months later, she was back on the street, rolling in the heather with a new vict… I mean boyfriend, and about the only thing that happened is she lost custody of her kids, and just had visitation. Last I remember, she was even suing to regain custody.
This is why people claim "GTA/Call of Duty/WoW made me do it!" They know they can get away with damn near anything if they convince people they're insane, and by claiming that these games affect them, that's pretty much insanity right there.
Me personally, I've played "violent" video games since I was 3. I played Bard's Tale 1 with my grandfather, and sat in on DnD sessions (1E!). I've seen movies in which men lost limbs due to both sword, monstrous thing, and artillery fire. And I've got books describing men being cooked inside burning tanks in gory detail (specifically in the Italian campaign during WWII). And my musical tastes run from Don McLean to Luciano Pavarotti to Ozzy Osbourne to Johnny Cash to Todd Agnew.
I've owned a rifle since I was 7, and have fired guns since I was 4. I have a Korean-war era battle rifle and am planning on buying a Mosin Nagant 1891/30 after the first of the year. I am also a student of the German Longsword and English Quarterstaff.
Yet the only time I've ever killed anything was a squirrel while hunting, which disgusted me immensely. I haven't hunted since, though I keep my marksmanship up. The only time I've carried a gun in anger was when a violent pit bull was going around the neighborhood attacking things smaller than it. I was more worried it'd decide that one of the 5 small children in the neighboring houses would make a fine easy mark. So I kept my rifle ready.
In the end, it attacked my brother, and he shot it 3 times in the head with .38 hollowpoints, the same kind the police use. Semi-wad cutters, hard hitting stuff. It staggered off about a hundred yards before finally dying. Had we been like Spain or some other country where the right to self defense was removed, he'd been mauled, maybe killed. In the United States, he was able to carry a century old revolver, and it saved his life.
