Jerald Block, a psychiatrist from Portland, Oregon even said that these shooters carried out their massacre because their parents took away their video games. Block said that the two relied heavily on online computer games as a means to express their anger. Eric Kain disagrees with Block, however, in his article “The Truth About Video Games and Gun Violence.” He says “that’s clearly an oversimplification. The age and gender of many mass shooters, including Columbine 's, places them right in the target demographic for first-person-shooter video games. And people between ages 18 and 25 also tend to report the highest rates of mental-health issues. Harris and Klebold 's complex mental-health problems have been well documented” (Kain, Works Cited #3). Kain’s argument resonates well with many others. One would agree that people seem to jump to conclusions when faced with horrific tragedies like this. They look at the first convincing piece of evidence without digging deep to really find out what happened. These two boys clearly had serious mental issues, but people were too fixated on the façade of violent video game obsession to find a viable reason why these two chose to do something like this. Mental illness is many times a huge factor when it comes to shootings like
Jerald Block, a psychiatrist from Portland, Oregon even said that these shooters carried out their massacre because their parents took away their video games. Block said that the two relied heavily on online computer games as a means to express their anger. Eric Kain disagrees with Block, however, in his article “The Truth About Video Games and Gun Violence.” He says “that’s clearly an oversimplification. The age and gender of many mass shooters, including Columbine 's, places them right in the target demographic for first-person-shooter video games. And people between ages 18 and 25 also tend to report the highest rates of mental-health issues. Harris and Klebold 's complex mental-health problems have been well documented” (Kain, Works Cited #3). Kain’s argument resonates well with many others. One would agree that people seem to jump to conclusions when faced with horrific tragedies like this. They look at the first convincing piece of evidence without digging deep to really find out what happened. These two boys clearly had serious mental issues, but people were too fixated on the façade of violent video game obsession to find a viable reason why these two chose to do something like this. Mental illness is many times a huge factor when it comes to shootings like