i've played alot of video games but it doesn't make me want to kill,play baseball or eat hundreds of pies. it sounds like kids who are bad people or had bad parents who didn't teach them that hurting animals was wrong.

Greengina-I disagree. If a kid spends 4 hours a day for 8 years shooting up people on the internet he may wish for a bigger rush and move on to thrill killing when he is older. Studies prove the games DESENSITIZE children form violence and may contribute to the instability you speak of.

This article isn't about video games and the effects thereof. It's about young people senselessly killing wild animals for fun. Killing animals in this/these way(s)is a sign of psychological instability. Problems like these are warning signs for more violent and destructive behaviors.
I am curious to know if these disturbing events are widely distributed across the state or if they are localized to a particular area or region of the state.
And, just let me say that if the world is going to hell in a bucket, I want to be holding the handle!

That Dremel, he's a real tool.

Can't argue with that.

video games may play a small part in it but lets face the truth that society, as a whole, would rather ignore. kids are not taught to respect or care about anything, be it live or material. and many adults dont either. if one can not see a use for it or there is to many of just get rid of it. in my grandparents own words.......the world is going to hell in a hand basket sure hate to see what the next generation does when they are in charge.

Oh, sysco! That is an odd sentence in the story. It gets even odder if you follow it along. Evidently a warden named Ted Dremel is telling us that someone with the name "he's Dremel" has been investigating the cases. This goes a step beyond speaking of oneself in the third person, perhaps as an alter ego or separate personality.

I don't think video games per se are the problem, although the two types mentioned by tjncj surely couldn't be at the top of the brainpower list.
It's been shown in numerous studies that video gaming has contributed positively to the unsurpassed skills of todays top combat pilots and military personnel.

A host of new studies suggest that video games build rather than diminish cognitive skills. Even a relatively simple tiling puzzle like Tetris has been shown to boost brainpower. Moreover, learning expert James Gee’s research reveals that typical teenage gamers are anything but addlebrained. “We had a hard time finding kids who were bad at school but good at games,”

Probably kids who spent their youths sitting in front of a game system playing shoot'em up games and Grand Theft Auto. No one wants to admit the negative influence on kids these games have but there is no denying their impact.

There's a name for those people - LOSERS.