"I point the finger at... gaming...that increasingly rewards

Excerpts from Washington Post article: The Newtown discussion necessarily sweeps in the

** news media, which give the killers a notoriety they couldn’t have achieved legitimately. 
**Hollywood, which markets spectacular make-believe violence. 
**The computer gaming industry, which profits from ultra-realistic shooting games that are bloodier than ever.

I point the finger unreservedly at the entertainment industry, which has spawned and cultivated gaming that by design is

**increasingly real,
**geared to action as the shooter’s point of view,
**increasingly dehumanizes victims, and
**increasingly rewards players by how many they kill,

said Michael Welner, a forensic psychiatrist and chairman of the Forensic Panel, who works on more than 20 homicide cases a year.

[ IMO, gun control is only part, perhaps the least part, of the action that we need to take. The way Mothers Against Drunk Driving changed societal attitudes at the household level toward drunk driving, so acceptance at the family level of outrageous levels of violence is required to meet this problem.

Those who are old enough will recall that MADD was a ground-level movement that occurred only after population growth and density increased rates of deaths from drunk drivers to levels that appalled us all. Before that, we smiled and shook our heads at friends who insisted on driving themselves home, but we let them go--and invited them back next time. The MADD movement made us all come to view it all as highly unrespectable. And we STOPPED TOLERATING AND ENABLING it.

As a society, we need to come to see routinely using high levels of violence to entertain ourselves and our children as extremely unacceptable behavior. We need to be shocked when we learn neighbors have violent games in their houses and let their children watch ultra violent movies on TV, to the point that we won't allow our children to visit such an environment. Only with such a change of attitudes within ourselves will we reverse this trend away from a civilized society.]