User blog comment:AraedonMelias/A serious question for you all. . ./@comment-7395018-20130919200002

Think about it... Videos games obviously make us violent (sarcasm intended).

The media portrays violent videos games as "monkey see, monkey do".

The media also misleads many people into thinking violent videos games are the stem of violence in general.

For example, a few weeks ago an 8 year old shot his grandmother to death. The whole article summarized is "GTA IV caused the child to go crazy and kill his grandmother". They barely touched on why the gun was within reach of an EIGHT year old. Any eight year old wouldn't know if the gun was loaded or not. Why was it loaded in the first place? Sure keep the magazine in, but don't have a round in the chamber.

Some people with certain mental illnesses may be misled by games, but they should not have access to weapons in the first place.

PS. Just like Blu said, violence has been around for ages. Unless the cavemen had some sort of video game on their iRock, it's doubtful that games start violence.

I could continue on for hours on this topic. The media is making this a complete (sorry for the profanity) bullshit debate.