we've already talked about this and my thoughts about it. violent video games have barely any effect on the person if any at all. I play Call of Duty and Halo constantly, Prototype and Oblivion as well, and you don't see me running up buildings and then slicing people with my dagger hands! X(

the issue is that parents are lax in what they allow children to buy, play and do. Look at 11 year old girls wearing short shorts. 35 percent of the time I can see their underwear, and all I have to do is glance at their shorts. what the hell!? and the mothers are standing there without a care. then there's the whole issue of me being in Gamestop and seeing a mother buy her 12 year old (I assume) son buy 2 mature rated games (GTA San Andreas and I don't remember the other) because his friends had them.

I know fourteen girls who have kids and they aren't out of high school yet. I know 2 middle schoolers with 2 year olds. The parents are the ones who hold the responsibility over the violent video games. If the parents buy them the video games without questioning its content, if the parents are the ones who don't pay attention to their kids, if the parents DON'T EVEN KNOW the kid has a DAMN GUN, then there's something wrong.

society doesn't help much in the way of it not doing much to help. Sure there's this and that, but when it comes down to it, 80% of what you see on tv involves some sort of violence (yes, even aladdin was violent) and it is just a part of our society today. I bet you 65% of the movies you watch will have a gun in them. and 45% will have at least one person die. Society has practically accept the whole problem of violence and said, "Well, ok because there's so much violence, there's nothing we can do about it, we may as well accept it and make it a part of our society since people seem to enjoy it. If we do that, then maybe people won't notice it anymore! More money! YAY!" and then society simply bats an eye at someone dying.

just 2 years ago I heard on the news "Today there was 4 deaths from a shooting. Diane I think that brings the death count up to 145 this year so far. Last year we had 468. I wonder if we'll break that record?"

come on people, what the hell are you?! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU!!! Tell me that I may know? No society should have an accepted standard for this kind of thing. Before long we're all going to be like that and that thought scares me not just a little.

My image search for "Dagger Hands" was disapointing.

> Listos wrote:

> we've already talked about this and my thoughts about it. violent video games have barely any effect on the person if any at all. I play Call of Duty and Halo constantly, Prototype and Oblivion as well, and you don't see me running up buildings and then slicing people with my dagger hands! X(

the issue is that parents are lax in what they allow children to buy, play and do. Look at 11 year old girls wearing short shorts. 35 percent of the time I can see their underwear, and all I have to do is glance at their shorts. what the hell!? and the mothers are standing there without a care. then there's the whole issue of me being in Gamestop and seeing a mother buy her 12 year old (I assume) son buy 2 mature rated games (GTA San Andreas and I don't remember the other) because his friends had them.

I know fourteen girls who have kids and they aren't out of high school yet. I know 2 middle schoolers with 2 year olds. The parents are the ones who hold the responsibility over the violent video games. If the parents buy them the video games without questioning its content, if the parents are the ones who don't pay attention to their kids, if the parents DON'T EVEN KNOW the kid has a DAMN GUN, then there's something wrong.

society doesn't help much in the way of it not doing much to help. Sure there's this and that, but when it comes down to it, 80% of what you see on tv involves some sort of violence (yes, even aladdin was violent) and it is just a part of our society today. I bet you 65% of the movies you watch will have a gun in them. and 45% will have at least one person die. Society has practically accept the whole problem of violence and said, "Well, ok because there's so much violence, there's nothing we can do about it, we may as well accept it and make it a part of our society since people seem to enjoy it. If we do that, then maybe people won't notice it anymore! More money! YAY!" and then society simply bats an eye at someone dying.

just 2 years ago I heard on the news "Today there was 4 deaths from a shooting. Diane I think that brings the death count up to 145 this year so far. Last year we had 468. I wonder if we'll break that record?"

come on people, what the hell are you?! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU!!! Tell me that I may know? No society should have an accepted standard for this kind of thing. Before long we're all going to be like that and that thought scares me not just a little.

[], societies havent accepted violence and murder, all societies are trying to reduce violent crimes; just because our governments arent being oppressive and putting us in prison states inorder to reduce the number of violent crimes, it doesnt mean our society has become indifferent to murder and violence.

No, want my 50 cents?

You're probably half right, WFS. But I'm quite sure all problems with young adults, teenagers and even children have just one similarity: boredom.

Kids are bored these days... and there's often no parents around to watch over them, 'cause mom and dad both work. But the kid doesn't have to get a job, his parents compensate with money for the fact they're never home.
Then there's two possibilities: one, he's popular and has friends, two, he has none.
When he has friends I'm quite sure he's pretty much happy about his life. So he can spend his whole day phoning his friends and "hanging out". Which in our country often results in two things: they're fun kids and do fun stuff or they get bored some more and start using drugs... which often results in acting violent, 'cause most people can't handle drugs. Taping everything with the camera on your phone may be involved. Youtube is fun.

Then there's the other kind: the lone kid. Not always his fault, he may just be different... oh wait, that is his fault. Ah well.
There's two versions of these as well: the ones that hate theirselfs, but finally accept being a geek and the ones who will never accept they're a geek. The first ones will eventually get some friends, mostly geeks too. The last ones have the largest possibility of snapping. These just don't understand why people tease and probably just bully them. Which just frustrates them, because they can not accept this fact. Well, I'm quite sure that 99% of these people just joins some sort of martial arts class or starts visiting the gym and eventually becomes a "cool kid".
But, there's always that tiny group among them ready to snap. These are often the ones with practically NO friends and a fascination with violence. He's not violent because he plays videogames or watches action movies on tv. No, he just likes violence. And he's bored... far too bored for anyone his age. So he start thinking... and thinking... until he finally reaches his final solution. He's gonna kill them all.

Sooo... ban boredom?

Put the young to work building cheap luxury goods for export to America!

Child labour ftw.

You're what in statistics they call an oddity

The reason people go out and kill isn't violent video games, it's humanity's mind-numbing stupidity. Try and ban that!

There's always been stupidity

"There's always been stupidity"

Because no one ever tried to ban it X(