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> I was trying to show you that it obviously wasn't video games or movies or whatever that caused the increased violence rates, since they existed before columbine.

And I was pointing out a typo...

> However, consider this: there where violent games, music and movies before columbine, but news reports regarding columbine only took place after.

News reports regarding Columbine only took place...

> "I am not going to read that so I must be right!"

Oh, blow me. You can't honestly just send me with a page full of links and say "There's your proof!"

Here: www.google.com - Guess I was...

I only checked the 1999 link, since that's when Columbine was - I saw a bunch of links to other studies, which I'm not going to read through to help prove your point.

I did skim the 2000 PDF,...

Kermi's a psych major - why do you think I didn't want to argue with him about this :p

I'm not sorting through everything in that link to do your research for you.

Ah, there we go. That's what I get for trying this at work :p

I'm not going to debate you on something psychological kerm (because I'll get smoked), but do you agree that video games probably...

> Longer-term effects are likely to be longer lasting as well, as the player learns and practices new aggression-related scripts that can become more and more accessible for use when real-life...

To be fair, MSFS is actually pretty realistic, so it's plausible that they really did get some benefit out of it.

It's a pretty huge stretch to say that anyone would gain a real benefit out of an...

Well he probably deserved it.

> why do you think there was a sudden spike in school violence after columbine?

There was? Please feel free to name some of these violent schools.

And besides, it's the media's job to report...

I bet you they played DOOM, which is that ultra-realistic murder simulator on the cutting edge of technology.

Seriously, games have gotten so much bloodier since then - why do they always pick on...