Even Violent Video Games Are a Healthy Outlet for Teens
Seventy-nine years ago, Germans gathered in Berlin's Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Platz one May evening. They piled the books of Karl Marx, Bertolt Brecht and August Bebel (for whom the plaza would later be renamed), and burned them in the name of eliminating "un-German" ideas.
On Jan. 12, 2013, a group called SouthingtonSOS, a Connecticut neighborhood collective near Newtown, is planning to accept and destroy copies of violent video games turned in by locals.
Seemingly, this is Southington's way of helping Newtown recover from the tragedy of the Sandy Hook shootings and prevent similar attacks elsewhere. However, there's only questionable evidence that shooter Adam Lanza was a devoted violent-game player. And statistically, young men like Lanza play fewer video games than their peers.
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