I don't know guys... this is an issue that started early on in videogaming. I think violence and gaming are tied inextricably together. I mean, look at Tron and Battlezone and Duckhunt. Even Mario jumped on the heads of cute little things and set animals on fire. Fuck, once Yoshi came on the scene he even started eating the little bastards.
Videogames are based in the realm of escapism. Sometimes people need the ability to go out and whack a couple of mob bosses and run over innocent people in a game that tries to simulate real life so that people don't actually do it in real life. Again, the issue comes from the point where a person (especially a kid) cannot draw the line between this fantasy world and the real one. However, where this is the case the game is not to blame as the person clearly has issues that result from something entirely different from Grand Theft Auto... like a hormonal imbalance, or developmental disorder.
Take away my violent videogames and I'm climbing up with Coppertop.
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