The Evidence Is In…

…Nikolas Cruz was a violent first person shooter video game fanatic, spending eight to fifteen hours a day pretending to kill people.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article200754714.html

He joins my list of mass killers who spent most, if not all their spare time using pretend weapons to kill pretend people, before finally going over the edge and using real weapons to kill real people. This is the most common characteristic of mass random killers.

https://medium.com/@Penseur/predicting-mass-shooters-with-software-f8f274a82460

It’s time to force video game publishers to give us back end access to monitor their players so we can recognize this and stop them before the killing turns real.