Are games becoming too violent?

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To make my views short and sweet, let me put it this way..

• If people take responsibility for their children, then their children will not gain access to games, or any other items they do not wish them to have.
• If people take responsibility for their actions, then they will learn that acting out violence in real life is not only wrong, but will result in harsh punishment.
• If people take the time to teach their children responsibility, then they to will pass this life lesson on to their children, as it will serve them well throughout their lives, not just in avoiding the "temptation" to kill someone because they played a violent video game.

If people just simply take responsibility, then this entire discussion becomes moot.  Because they then realize the problem here is not the video games or guns or knives.  It is people who were never shown how to take responsibility for themselves, and they eventually decide that its everyone else's fault and they lash out.  Thats the one common theme to these so called "video game inspired rampages", its always some kid who is mad at the world because life didn't turn out how he wanted. They even take the time to shuffle the blame for their murder-suicide onto a video game in some suicide letter before they kill themselves! One of their last actions in life is to try and dodge that responsibility one last time.

But they can turn their lives around rather than comit these crimes. As most people know, as long as you are still alive and you can find the will to make a change for the better there is always hope for a better future.  You just have to take the responsibility for the way your life has turned out, because there is only one person who has been with you your whole life, and thats you.