Dr Jin Love
Queen Shining Heaven
Oh, yes, it's video games that cause problems, not the mentally disturbed people playing them
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Or the parents who let their 11 year old play a M rated game. emotion_facepalm
Seriously, people kill people. There are also ratings for a reason, if it's games that influence someone to actually go out and cause harm to people, They are not right in the head and any sort of violence will influence them. Movies, the news, the internet, Heck just going to school could trigger it.
Even if parents buy M-rated video games for their young pre-teen/teenager, they should drill it into their child's skull that video games are fantasy, and in reality, actions have consequences, whether it be serious injury, imprisonment, or death.
That message was pounded into my brain when I was young and watching any kind of cartoon, movie, or playing a video game. My mom made sure that I knew that even though I, and others, can infinitely come back to life in a video game, that is not the case in real life.