Welcome to the Patrick Coffin Show. We're going to talk about mass shootings. They always seem to be in the news.

Here's a line from page 21 of a book you must get. It's called the assassination generation. Video games, aggression, and the psychology of killing. Here's the sentence.

The context is massacres. Today, massacres and the threat of such crimes are ubiquitous reality.

5,000 years of human history, more than 1,000 years of gunpowder weapons, and 150 years of repeating firearms.

And not once did any juvenile commit such a crime until 1975.

What is the one factor behind all these massacres? We're going to get into this today on the Patrick Coffin Show with the author of that book, Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman of Killology.com. Don't go away.

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Up next, Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman on the book, Assassination Generation, and what is going on behind these horrific shootings.

But first, this fake celebrity endorsement.

As promised, so happy to welcome back one of my heroes in life, Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman. He's a retired U.S. Army officer.

He's a scholar, an author, a recognized expert in the field of human aggression, the roots of violence, his website's callology, his books include on killing, on combat, stop teaching our kids to kill.

In the book, we're going to do a deep dive on today. As I mentioned, I'll just flash it for the camera, Assassination Generation.

Lieutenant Colonel, I love your stuff. I always learn so much when you and I spend time together. Thanks for carving out some time today to talk to us.

My pleasure, Patrick. And you know, that line you just quoted right there is actually a line that I presented to Vice President Pence.

I's invited to the White House as part of President Trump's roundtable on violent video games.

Let me tell you what happened there, and then we'll talk about Vice President Pence.

The video game industry is sitting there in their $10,000 suits. They told President Trump, you know, we, we, we, we support enforcing the rating system.

We have a rating system. It's sick. You know, worst games are rated M mature, every kid's mature. I want to be mature. They desire to be mature.

They take this game to give it the most desirable title. Yeah, but they're wrapped right there in the roundtable off the Oval Office.

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