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Games are games and nothing more. Most normal people understand that. People who don't have problems beyond playing games that they should have dealt with a long time ago.
I don't think we need to worry about these things being banned anytime soon. Nobody has the statistics to prove any of this as truth. People just want something to blame other than bad parenting or something.
First of all, if a parent doesn't want to raise their children on video games, sex and violence, that's their choice. And to ensure that, they should simply not buy their kids any games, not own a television, not bring their kids to the movies, not buy them most books, not bring them outside, and not own a computer. Simple, right?
The truth of the matter is that "bad" influences are all around children all the time. It's all about how they interpret these things and how their parents raise them to think of these things that matters. Furthermore, trying to pretend that sex and violence don't exist and sheltering your kid from any contact or knowledge of it can only hurt your kid in the long run. He won't know how to deal with it once he is faced with it and he'll be made fun of in school for being so naive.
Perhaps games do desensitize people to violence or pain or death...but the same can be said for becoming a doctor or a lawyar or even living in the wrong neighborhood. When you're around *anything* enough, the impact stops being so great. But that doesn't mean that you're going to go out and kill people. All it means is that every time someone dies, you're not cringing and crying all night long.
Meanwhile, tons of these people from middle-America who want to ban video games with violence enroll their children in the military when they're old enough. They can't play video games but killing real people is just fine! Part of military training is desensitizing people to death so that they don't get squeimish when actually faced with battle.
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