If a 20-year-old watches a movie or plays a video game...

[theKed]

14. The muscle memory you get from a videogame

has no bearing on application to real-world combat - at least insofar as home video games are concerned. Unless there's a lot of thumb-controlled assault rifles on the market I haven't become aware of. It is "training" in the same way building model race-cars is training for the Indy 500.

The military grade simulators "train" simply because you're using a comparable weapon using comparable body motions under comparable conditions. The actual backdrop on the screens isn't all that relevant. If your gun was shooting virtual rainbows that hug virtual unicorns you'd still gain the same range of muscle memory as shooting a virtual AR-15 at virtual Al Qaida.

Using statistical outliers - such as the mentally unbalanced - that are drawn to aggressive video games as the basis for a book-disc-burning witch hunt, we should also consider all the other things they might like to do and think about banning them, too, no?