I really hate all of the people that think video games train kids to kill. In the colombine school shootings, they said that the kids played video games, which is why they committed the crime. I'm not saying that they are wrong or right, but if you look at the statistics, as video game sales increase at a substancial rate, the number of violent crimes are starting to decrease. I want to put a story on my school's website about people's reactions to this. I would be interisted for some feedback about this from all of you out there. I figured that we have a pretty disperse group of folk on this website, I would love to hear everybody's reaction to these video games.

Personally, from looking at the statisistics (computer gaming monthy has a story on this), I'm standing by my opinion that video games are not completely corrupting our minds, and turing us into zombies. I am also saying that some people do not have the mentality to realise that these are games, and do what they see in the games. From research, I've figured that the amount of these people are about one in every 5 million.

I agree, one such demon is Jack Thompson, he's an immature and rather horrid attorney from Florida.
THIS letter was not mine, but I wrot something similliar to it (with different points, but it mad sense, and was logical)
But if you read on you will see how immature he is, at one point he says please check into the nearest mental facility because the writer makes an un-deniable strong point, as he did to me when I mentioned that any child who would kill because they had done so in a video game in short likely had sever issues anyways.

When you buy a video game for someone, you have to trust that they are SMART enough to play the game and not commit crimes 0_o
That's what game ratings are for. But so many people look over them and just go "yeah whutever, it's just a video game...". They're like... 10 year olds buying rated "M" games because their parents allowed them to. There are so many thugs around my school, and people who like violence and I bet they got it off video games. It's ok if they be themselves, but killing people and hurting people is not very mature, even doing crime. There sould be a video game that teaches people justice in a way it's not stupid T_T. That's my little rant...

that is false, Japan is the biggest game industiral country, but yet, their crime rate or death rate that relates to volences are much lower than ours (United State). So it just doesn't make sense if games were to be blamed for. Additional to that, japan is also a major anime producer. anime are more violence than most american cartoon.

I think that's how parents blame on things for their lack of influence over their kids. The main cause of such violence is probably bad parenting. Parents t hat can't raise a kid correctly and tolerate their child's misdeed.

I always seek for a middle ground in situations like this, because if you begin to take sides, your views become twisted and disoriented.

I hate these puritans too. They are the hypocrites that always pretend to be more “moral” then others and by doing so pretend to be more superior. Frankly, I don’t think any of those reports of video games leading kids to kill are scientifically sound. It is also morally wrong to blame video games as a whole because a few of these guys make those excuses for their wrongdoings. Put it another way, if videos game is proven to be a vent for those who want to kill, do we necessarily have to promote those first person shooting games?

I think nowadays parents are too obsessed with protecting their kids. Kids should not live in a greenhouse, otherwise the reality will be too much for them when they grow up. FPS games are just a simple form of entertainment that we play in our pastime, to reprimand them on the ground that “they pollute the mind” is foolish.

Oh yeah, killing really is too far unless you're THAT dumb.
But it's not just video games....it's TV too. There are more violent TV programs then video games, even music videos. It's sickens me how people learn off TV how they're supposed to be like, and that we have such crude "role models" who are into sex and crime. Seriously...

Doesn't anyone else find it ironic that the same government that is putting all the blame on video games for all of the violence, etc, is the SAME government that not only sent but still have our troops over on the other side of the planet (killing people, if I'm not mistaken).

People who have problems with things like this always try and find a scapegoat to blame all their problems on. People are getting fat off of fast food, so they're suing the fast food restaraunts because "they didn't know the food was bad for them...kids are using guns.....let's blame video games. While we're at it, Bill Clinton got some from Monica in the White House....should the porn industry be shut down for that one?

EVERYONE has problems.....and EVERYONE is different.....and EVERYONE has different views on everything. I'm sure if we were to start a post up with this list of things, the replies of arguments would never end

1. Video Game Violence
2. Explicit lyrics in music
3. Abortion
4. War in Iraq

The media needs things to dwell on, and the government always seems to have ways to spark things up. We might as well sit back and watch everyone argue till their blue in the face

Now if you excuse me, I'm gonna go play some Serious Sam.....

*edit

Sorry, didn't mean to have the quote from a prior comment in there......