Assassination Generation, Katie Miserany
Assassination Generation, Katie Miserany
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Assassination Generation
Video Games, Aggression, and the Psychology of Killing

Author: Katie Miserany, Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman, Kristine Paulsen

Narrator: Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman

Unabridged: 7 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/15/2016

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

The author of the 400,000-copy bestseller On Killing reveals how violent video games have ushered in a new era of mass homicide -- and what we must do about it.

Paducah, 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.

What links these and other horrific acts of mass murder? A young person's obsession with video games that teach to kill.

Lt. 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.

Drawing 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Liz on November 25, 2018

“Assassination Generation” is the most important book I’ve read this year. Filled with powerful information and backed with data, this is a book every parent should read. We don’t let our children smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol or own firearms, yet we allow them access to violent media including TV,......more

Goodreads review by Mary on March 12, 2017

Every. Parent. Needs. To. Read. This. Book. In our media-, electronics-, death-obsessed culture, we have got to get a handle on things before it gets even worse, and the first step is restricting children's access to violent video games (in addition to access to violent movies and TV... followed by......more

Goodreads review by Fredrick on November 22, 2016

With the rise of mass killings since 1975 it is easy to blame guns [which the author suggests is not the real reason] instead citing studies that youth are being desensitized to violence and death by video games and other sources that teach and applaud violence. I recommend this study to parents, ed......more