Violent video games the rage
in Japan but mass killings rare
Mike Gordon, in his letter entitled “With the Gilroy tragedy, we again must ask why” (July 31) proposes that the Gilroy Garlic Festival tragedy was due to the violence that our youth are exposed to while playing video games.
I’m a believer of cause and effect and in this particular case the cause doesn’t fit the effect. I have traveled to Japan for decades and anyone who has spent time there will attest that violent video games are the rage among the youth. The extreme violence is not only in their video games, but also in their comic books, which have a cultish readership.
Notwithstanding, Japan doesn’t have any mass shootings, period.
This knowledge indicates that there’s no direct cause and effect between the videos and the shooting, but there certainly is between the AK-47-style assault weapon and the shooting
Anthony Vesci
San Jose
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