POINT OF VIEW

Video Games: the Latest Scapegoat for Violence

By CHRISTOPHER J. FERGUSON

In the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings, it was distressing to see the paroxysms of neurotic finger-pointing and "expert witnessing" that inevitably followed. Beyond noting simply that a bad (evil, some would say) man chose one day to make the lives of other individuals as hellish as he felt his own to be, I don't...

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