{"product_id":"assassination-generation-video-games-aggression-and-the-psychology-of-killing-9780316265935b","title":"Assassination Generation: Video Games, Aggression, and the Psychology of Killing","description":"The author of the landmark work \u003ci\u003eOn Killing\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how violent video games have ushered in a new era of mass homicide - and what we must do about it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaducah, Kentucky, 1997: a 14-year-old boy shoots eight students in a prayer circle at his school. Littleton, Colorado, 1999: two high school seniors kill a teacher, twelve other students, and then themselves. Utoya, Norway, 2011: a political extremist shoots and kills sixty-nine participants in a youth summer camp. Newtown, Connecticut, 2012: a troubled 20-year-old man kills 20 children and six adults at the elementary school he once attended.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat links these and other horrific acts of mass murder? A young person's obsession with video games that teach to kill.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLt. Col. Dave Grossman, who in his perennial bestseller On Killing revealed that most of us are not \"natural born killers\" - and who has spent decades training soldiers, police, and others who keep us secure to overcome the intrinsic human resistance to harming others and to use firearms responsibly when necessary - turns a laser focus on the threat posed to our society by violent video games.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on crime statistics, cutting-edge social research, and scientific studies of the teenage brain, Col. Grossman shows how video games that depict antisocial, misanthropic, casually savage behavior can warp the mind - with potentially deadly results. His book will become the focus of a new national conversation about video games and the epidemic of mass murders that they have unleashed.","brand":"Little Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42985561391184,"sku":"9780316265935B","price":10.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/assassination-generation-video-games-aggression-and-the-psychology-of-killing-9780316265935b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}