{"product_id":"2940170379460","title":"Assassination Generation: Video Games, Aggression, and the Psychology of Killing","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe author of the 400,000-copy bestseller \u003ci\u003eOn Killing \u003c\/i\u003ereveals how violent video games have ushered in a new era of mass homicide--and what we must do about it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/div\u003ePaducah, Kentucky, 1997\u003c\/i\u003e: a 14-year-old boy shoots eight students in a prayer circle at his school. \u003ci\u003eLittleton, Colorado, 1999\u003c\/i\u003e: two high school seniors kill a teacher, twelve other students, and then themselves. \u003ci\u003eUtoya, Norway, 2011\u003c\/i\u003e: a political extremist shoots and kills sixty-nine participants in a youth summer camp. \u003ci\u003eNewtown, Connecticut, 2012\u003c\/i\u003e: a troubled 20-year-old man kills 20 children and six adults at the elementary school he once attended.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat links these and other horrific acts of mass murder? A young person's obsession with video games that teach to kill.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLt. Col. Dave Grossman, who in his perennial bestseller \u003ci\u003eOn Killing\u003c\/i\u003erevealed that most of us are not \"natural born killers\" - and who has spent decades training soldiers, police, and others who keep us secure to overcome the intrinsic human resistance to harming others and to use firearms responsibly when necessary - turns a laser focus on the threat posed to our society by violent video games.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on crime statistics, cutting-edge social research, and scientific studies of the teenage brain, Col. Grossman shows how video games that depict antisocial, misanthropic, casually savage behavior can warp the mind - with potentially deadly results. His audiobook will become the focus of a new national conversation about video games and the epidemic of mass murders that they have unleashed.","brand":"Hachette Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47102346100976,"sku":"2940170379460","price":25.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170379460_p0.jpg?v=1763708842","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170379460","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}