Talk show host Elisabeth Hasselbeck, speaking on Fox & Friends following the horrific shooting in Washington, D.C. yesterday, suggested that people who play video games should be monitored.
āWhat about frequency testing?ā she asked. (Video above.) āHow often has this game been played? Iām not one to get in there and monitor everything, but if this indeed is a strong link, right, to mass killings then why arenāt we looking at frequency of purchases per person? And also, how often theyāre playing and how manyāmaybe they time out after a certain hour.ā
By now itās a familiar story: when tragedy happens, the fingers get to pointing. But to suggest that thereās a link between mass murder and video games, and that peoplesā video game habits should be monitored? When all we have here is correlation? When actual researchers are divided on the subject of whether video games lead to aggression? And when thereās no scientific research linking games to violence at all?
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Itās sometimes hard to believe these people really exist.
For a more reasonable perspective, hereās an ex-FBI profiler speaking on CNBC:
