It seems like kids who play lots of these first person shooter games can really do some damage when they get real guns and decide to cut loose. Should the US Military try to identify such people who are trained by these games and predisposed to go psycho on their peers. Maybe a commando unit of these in the mountains of Pakistan could take out Osama?:cool:

Militaries use privately developed "simulators" for just that kind of thing. Scenarios, SA practice and yes even terrain familarization.

As for being good with a gun, from a game? Only for situation thinking. Shooting and firearms ability must be practiced in real life.

It seems like kids who play lots of these first person shooter games can really do some damage when they get real guns and decide to cut loose.

What makes you say that? Because of the accusation that video games desensitize gamers to violence? There is a huge difference between moving joysticks and pressing buttons while staring at a TV screen and holding a firearm steady and firing with precision.

Should the US Military try to identify such people who are trained by these games and predisposed to go psycho on their peers.

If in fact they could identify such people, why wouldn't they do so already? What is to stop these psychotic gamers from going psycho on their peers, even in a military situation? A lot of first-person shooters give the impression that the player is in fact "an army of one".

Maybe a commando unit of these in the mountains of Pakistan could take out Osama?

Yeah, right. Let's see these gamers survive a month in the mountains of Pakistan, away from their sheltered lives of escapism and luxuries. Chances are, most of them don't speak another language, half of them wouldn't know where Pakistan is, and few of them would ever be in a "commando unit". Hah. A pasty-faced commando unit chosen from people who sit on their ass and stare at screens. I love it. That's what video games are for. To allow such fantasies.

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