What do you think usually causes a school shooting?

I've watched Bowling for Columbine and a Lifetime movie about school shootings. Along with the Degrassi episode on it. I'm just curious to what others think. Can video games honestly lead to a school shooting?|||There are different kinds of school shootings. Most school shootings involve one person shooting one other person, when the two have already been conflict over something. That may be caused by gang culture or other life problems.


Mass shootings like Columbine or Virginia tech are a different phenomenon. But again, there are two main categories; when the killer is sane, and when he is insane. By sane, I mean that the person understands the nature of his actions and knows that they are wrong. The Columbine killers are in this category. They reveled in the joy of killing. By insane, I mean the killer either doesn't understand the nature of his actions, or doesn't understand that they are wrong. I think the Virginia Tech killer was in this category. He believed that the whole world was conspiring to make him miserable, and that this bloodshed would have some kind of redemptive quality, like the death of Christ. That is crazy.


Now as to video games. I don't believe they cause normal people to want to hurt anybody. However, an unbalanced person immersed in the intensity of virtual battle may be affected that way. On the other hand, he may get some catharsis out of the game and not feel the need to act it out in reality.


The main danger with certain video games is that they are designed to help soldiers to increase their kill ratio in battle. People have an instinctive revulsion for killing other people, even when they have a good reason. Therefore in the past, many soldiers haven't even fired their guns in battle, or have shot over or to the side of the enemy. These games are designed to condition you to shoot effectively in a battle situation. This is fine for battle, and normal people know when they are in a battle and when they are not. However, somebody that simply wants to kill a lot of people, or who believes he is at war when he is not, may use these games to prepare for the massacre.|||an interesting artistic approach to the same kind of events in finland: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw2-mpKqgzw

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|||Most people say being bullied is what causes school shootings. The Columbine killers were not really bullied, but they did get made fun of for being different. I think that video games play a part in it too. Also the stereotypes of highschool and how it makes it hard for one to fit in. Hating the in-justice of the school. But anyone can pick up a gun and kill people, but some are actually crazy enough and mentally disturbed to do it.|||Mental illness.





They all had disturbed personalities and problems in life. In school shootings, they had a grudge against everyone even if they didn't know them.





Video games are just scapegoats for the media to easily blame. It is impossible to prevent mentally ill people from cracking and killing people. Mentally ill people are completely unpredictable and hard to figure out.|||Honestly I do not know how a video game could lead to any violence, the same with cartoons.


BULLYING at school can be very traumatic(I know it happened to me). Promised myself before I became a parent, that it would never happen to my children.


Have a boy starting High School this year and my daughter is in 6th grade.


Ever since they could walk have taught them how to box for self-defense, all the kids know my children can look after themselves, and they have never experienced any bullying whatsoever.


My son and also my daughter have never thrown a punch in anger and hopefully they never will.|||The same reason only 1 person out of 100,000 kill someone. Because they are the 1 out of 100,000.





People who care or worry about these things should just end it all right now. Save yourself the trouble of living in the horrible crime filled scary world.|||i think that it might be the way the person was raised or whats going on in their lifes at the time they do something like a shooting...they might be depressed or a tragic event might of taken place in their lives.|||Bad genes and poor parents.



Video games are as they are because that is what the public wants and buys. It is a reflection of the public, not an influence on them. It is the effect, not the cause.|||The army uses video games to desensitise soldiers and train them to kill people, so it works for them.|||Yes the manufactures should be sued|||parents avoiding the responsibility of admitting their kid is nuts and needs help.|||drugs