If little kids stopped buying games ike GTA and COD the publishers wouldn't sell more than half of what they make. The guys at Gamestop aren't going to stop the parents even though they stop the kids. 

I really don't think it was the fault of video games, but more the fault of a kid growing up in a very unhealthy environment. And the fact that his mom was telling his babysitter not to turn his back on the kid ten years ago is really telling in my opinion. They need to find a way to track these psycho / sociopathic kids at an early age without violating their Constitutional rights.

Thanks man!

What an awful video. It's why I enjoy living in the UK with the BBC, and other sources of news like The Mirror and The i. Very little bias from the modern press, only really papers like The Sun or The Daily Star which are like that...

...but enough of that. Your point is correct. The only reason there would be any sort of shooting is if the person initially was messed up. Videogames have nothing to do with it; people just wish to find a scapegoat. TV shows are far more graphic, infact, but since you aren't actively DOING these things then it's OK? Did these crimes only occur 10 years ago, and beforehand there was no crime? Because if so, then fair play, there's a correlation. But that means nothing, in this case because it's not true. Videogames are not responsible for this crime, if any.

Isn't funny that many of the people(not all) who blame games are also people who refuse to blame guns

Well videogames do promote violence, at least some of them and of course TV shows, music promotes too. However i think it's up to you if you let that influence gets to you.

My father its in a similar position as your mom, he thinks everyone who plays lots of games (me) will someday kill somebody and even though I demostrated him its up to the person who plays the game, he do not understand and never will.

Like in previous posts, games might have a small impact (like movies but on another level) but they don't turn a sane person into a mass murderer.
It's a bit easier to go on a killing spree with all those guns lying around though. I can imagine the rage and excitement you get from blowing someones head off in a videogame and taking that rage outside when you are 'not sane anymore'.

wasn't it the batman movie for the cinema one,weed usually gets blamed somewhere for good measure

i don't really understand the issue,let's ban alcohol if we are going to start somewhere i'd say that has the ugliest effect on society but some of us can enjoy a nice glass of wine or a couple of beers,these people have terrible social upbringing and some of them are just plain crazy,what exactly can we do when someone decides to step over the edge,not a lot,i certainly don't want to have mainstream society living in a world built around stopping a few crazy people,that would be insanity

I always find it strange that when something positive happens related to gaming everyone goes on about America being by far the most popular gaming country. Twist it around and when something negative happens gaming is "as popular as" in America as everywhere else.

You raised a very good point. Why almost always America? The country that loves shooting games more than anyone else - and have friendly firearms laws.

Music, films, the guy next door can all influence violence on a weak mind. Video games can simulate that violence. On the weak mind anything can be used as a catalyst. Don't compare what goes on in your brain with others. Just because video games hasn't influence you to violence doesn't mean it can't for others. Even if that is one person in five thousand.

@Chunli

C'mon. You can't compare a modern teenage kid living in the US with Hitler types. Those leaders were either borned in excessively violent times or witness severe violence during their lifes making violence the only life they knew.

What cold blooded wars. beheadings, etc has that kid witnessed?

don't know about usa but in germany, crime rates are decreasing. that's what the “bundeskriminalamt“ is saying and they know it better as some people writing an article.

here in germany we have the same problem with video game discussions if something like the massacre in usa happens, probably even worse here. “he had violent games at home“ ohh really? i would say it would be almost a wonder if a 17 years old or so wouldn't have those games at home, if for a console or at least pirated for pc.

i don't even want to deny that people who do something like this have maybe a big interest in those games but that should be the same with movies and music but that doesn't mean that they bought that stuff as nice guy and transformed in a killer.