video game produces violence...

[Beebs]

___I can understand frito's point. I have three under age nephews (under 18 yrs old) and it will be a cold day in Hell if their parents let them play anything more "violent" than Diddy Kong Racing or Mario Sunshine. I am, however, forced to side with the popular opinion on this topic: SINCE kids at a young age are "spunges" to outside stimuli, it is the parents' duty to ensure that their young children are taught that those type of games/activities are inappropiate at that age.
___Of course we cannot supervise them 24/7 during the early teen years, but we sure as heck can when they park their arses in front of a computer/TV in our house. I know every situation is different; some families are "single-parented" and it could mean the single parent has little time to interact with their children. Some parents simply do not have the time to act as a "watchdog" for whatever reasons. I am not justifying neglecting your kids, but when people say, "it's the parent's fault" and "all parents should watch everything their kids do" they may be assuming a utopian world where all families have this inherrent foundation for these solutions.
___Parents will fail and the result will sometimes be that their kids will show up at school with guns. Thankfully, this does not happen often. I do agree with most of you that the violence these children/teenagers decide to use is an indication of a deeper-routed problem, be it emotional, spiritual, mental, etc.
___I know this is easier said than done, but if you're not sure what your kids are doing at the younger ages, make the farking time to find out lest you find yourself so angry, shocked and bitter that you transfer the blame to a video game company that, as one of a million different media outlets for aggression, simply allowed your kid find a subsitute for dealing with their problems in a way condusive to a life void of real-life senseless violence.