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Highly publicized mass killings are usually done by young men.
And when reporters and investigators start nosing around, they often find that the young man in question played video games.
But that's because almost all young men play video games.
In fact, video games are a little bit like guns: there are so many of them out there already that it might make more sense to talk about how to live with them than about getting rid of certain kinds of them.
In 2010, 145 million Americans played some kind of video game, but that probably includes stuff like Angry Birds. 63 million were willing to pay for them. In 2009, there were nine video games sold for every ten Americans.
But they're not all the same, and they're not all violent. And the impulse to play them may be something we want to harness.
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