*Scapegoating video games and other violent media is nonsense*

[Honeycombe8]

32. Who is anti-video? Let's have some names. Did they send you e-mails? Or on TV?

I don't see any in this thread who are anti-video games. I love video games, myself.

Now, violent video games for children, hours on end....that's something else. No one is speaking of banning them. But parents who let their kids, even teens, spend their time that way aren't going to be happy with the results. And the rest of society may not be happy with their teen, either.

Violent video games are rated, and kids below a certain age aren't supposed to be playing them.

It does desensitize kids to violence, and objectifies "victims." An adult is better able to handle that, I think. A kid's brain is still forming; they are very impressionable. It may do no harm. Or it may. That's all I'm saying. It should be looked at. There's no reason not to.

To take a position, not based on studies or science, that it does no harm, is not really wanting to get at the core of the problem. If you only want to do ONE thing, because that fits in with what you want to do.

Well, I want gun control, too. And I want other things considered, as well: ammo is maybe more important than the guns; mental illness; violence in video games and movies that kids are allowed to see; bullying.