Letter to the editor: Video games & violence

It seems every day somewhere in this country there is some sort of incident in a school, be it a shooting, a threat or a weapon of some sort found on a student. Then we hear from experts and highly educated people that they cannot figure out the why.

My parents, myself and my children watched cartoons like Bugs Bunny on Saturday mornings. Then along came a group of people who said these cartoons were teaching children violence because one character would hit another character over the head with a mallet, causing a large lump to rise on his head. Wow!

Many of today’s parents see no problem allowing their children to use their iPhones, tablets and computers to play violent video “games” in which the winners are awarded points for how many people they can kill. Some of these same games are used by our military for training prior to deployment.

Maybe someone needs to wake up and put a stop to this violent training of our children. It’s possible they are getting ideas from these so-called “games” to go for the real thing.

Robert Ober

Etna