The Columbine Effect

Video games and violence are closely tied together, but it’s terrifying just how closely the Columbine was tied to an obsession with gaming.

Researcher and psychiatrist Jerald Block who has been analyzing the killers and the columbine case for years came to the conclusion that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold went on their shooting rampage after being forbidden from playing violent, role playing games.

Of course, this is not the only factor that led to such a horrible tragedy, but it is something that could have been avoided.

They relied entirely on an imaginary world, they weren’t aware that bad decisions had dire consciences.

It was too late for the young adults by the time their parents finally took action, and Block proposes the following question: “How do you pull them out, without triggering homicidal or suicidal behavior?”