{"product_id":"book-bu8o","title":"Assassination Generation","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe author of the 400,000-copy bestseller \u003ci\u003eOn Killing\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how violent video games have ushered in a new era of mass homicide - and what we must do about it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Paducah, Kentucky, 1997: a 14-year-old boy shoots eight students in a prayer circle at his school.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Littleton, Colorado, 1999: two high school seniors kill a teacher, twelve other students, and then themselves.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Utoya, Norway, 2011: a political extremist shoots and kills sixty-nine participants in a youth summer camp. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Newtown, Connecticut, 2012: a troubled 20-year-old man kills 20 children and six adults at the elementary school he once attended. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What links these and other horrific acts of mass murder? A young person's obsession with video games that teach to kill. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, who in his perennial bestseller \u003ci\u003eOn Killing\u003c\/i\u003e revealed 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\u003e Drawing 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 book will become the focus of a new national conversation about video games and the epidemic of mass murders that they have unleashed.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49349547655472,"sku":"BDbu8o","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD [40]","offer_id":49349547721008,"sku":"40bu8o","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/bu8o-Square-cover.jpg?v=1776223883","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-bu8o","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}