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Ugh. Video games are NOT the problem, here. If people honestly believed vid games are the problem, then we might as well start pointing fingers at everything else! Media in general. SOCIETY. The fact that some people are just so imbalanced that they decide it's ok to shoot people. What about the fact that man created guns? Weapons for that matter? We going to start saying they MADE people stab each other, shoot each other, maim each other? Are we going to start blaming the Bible, too? There's a lot of ideas and violence in THAT particular book! This is ridiculous.

Unless there's some sort of virus inherent in video games impregnating the higher-learning functions of humans with the NEED to kill, this argument is BS.

The problem isn't with the 'material' present, it's how each individual PERSON, and each unique CIRCUMSTANCE, all co-mingle and deal with LIFE. Some people can't deal and do something stupid. Sometimes that 'something stupid' is killing 32 people, and then yourself.

If video games was REALLY the problem, then shouldn't there be A WAR happening between MILLIONS of people? Oh wait, there is. Are going to blame THAT on video games too? "George Bush has been playing Counterstrike too often and decided to send the US Army to Iraq." "Studies show Saddam Hussein was playing GTA too much." "al'Queda trains by playing Tom Clancy games."

This is insane. I blame parents who can't deal with the fact they didn't pay enough attention. I blame friends who put the blame on something else when they feel guilty for not being there. I blame Jack Thompson who so desperately needs something to do that he's started a war against video games.

Heh, you can't go a week nowadays without hearing about games being blamed for something in America. I'm so glad we get none of that here.

i didn't say it was the sole reason, or the reason why it's there all the time.. i just said i sometimes think it helps, not always just sometimes.. i think the same for movies too.. i just went to see disturbia, and i thought to myself and then shared with my friends.. now that's gonna give someone some ideas on how to kill.. but i don't think it's the sole reason for people behaving the way.. i think they already have issues, i think they sometimes see things tv, games, news, it doesn't matter and it just gives them some ideas sometimes.. or makes them want attention..

Schools...banning...books. That has to be one of the most stupid things I have ever heard.

*echoes the thoughts of the English majority if they heard about that*

Only in America.

I got an early birthday present, Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral town for the GBA. I loves it so much. *goes to play her new game*

moo.

moo.