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Answer: sometimes there's a minor correlation, sometimes not. Depends on the person. There's more important things to worry about when dealing with the dark side of human nature.

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I'm not really sure I can say anything more or better than TB said.

You really can't single out video games in a discussion like this. It should include all media that has violence. So basically it should include all media. If a person can be influenced by video games, then they can be influenced by other forms. If influence would be true, then there shouldn't be a question about banning just one thing, but everything. That includes wrestling and boxing as well.

But there isn't influence either. For someone to commit a crime like a planned shooting, there has to be something wrong with the person from the beginning.

It should be the parents who are to blame. They are responsible for the well upbringing of their offspring and their integration into society. A parent should know their child and whether it is appropriate for them to be exposed to any kind of violence. You shouldn't let them play something too early, but there's no point in keeping them confined until they meet the age. You can't just say that maturity comes on the day of your 18th birthday. Just look at my avatar, you'd think I'm probably 12. (double it).
As with xamon, my parents didn't quite know what I was playing. I don't think I played very inappropriate stuff for my ages. Maybe except porn.

But really this is all just preaching to the choir. People just don't know games all that much and are looking for something to blame. In time things will change.

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I don't really think there is a correlation. And AFAIK there's no scientific evidence that such correlation exists.
And I find it very dumb how media pictures it. On my local TV channel they said something like "school shooter used to play COD an by the way, Anders Breivik played it too!". Come on, COD is one of the most popular games, it's like saying they both liked chocolate flavored ice cream!

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Thanks I wrote an essay on that topic a few years ago for school. Here's the link: http://gyazo.com/1e45d8e998b49aa8e1d321af633d13b4

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games - violence - too complex a problem to discuss in just a few comments, but here's my two cents:

imho parents (should) have the most impact on a child's life. they are the ones responsible to spend enough time with their children, to try and explain to them these things, to help them process it. the main problem today is that they have no time for this, because after the long hours of work, they find it easier to just sit the kid before their own tv in their own room, so they can finally have some alone time. this is simply wrong. a parent has to make sacrifices in his/her own life, so that his/her children is properly raised.
I do not think that controlling the media is the good solution for this, it just makes it for the kid more exciting to reach these contents secretly without his/her parents knowing about it.

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I don't believe that video game violence leads to "real-life" violence. There are millions of people who play video games yet are not violent, and there are millions of people who are violent who do not play video games. The question that should really be asked is what impact violent video games have upon violent people? Is a violent person who plays violent video games more likely to lash out at others in real life, or do video games act as an outlet for aggression that would otherwise be spent torturing a live person? That is where we should focus attention.

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