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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
And it's parents' job, not the governments, to regulate their children's gaming.
and there in lies the problem. most parents (make sure you read that i said most, not all) dont bother to research the games they buy their kids. they even ignore the rating level put on the game, but then when their kid 'mimics' the game (not that im saying video games cause violence, if someone goes on a killing spree after playing gta they were obviously in need of help before hand and i dont think not playing gta would have prevented it) or the parents find out about the 'inappropriateness' (its only inappropriate for the ages its not intended for, so it should be a non issue if parents paid attention) of the game then they scream to high heaven and go off and blame the video game company or the movies or whatever else is the current 'in scapegoat' so they can avoid the truth that maybe they are just bad parents and should pay more attention to what their children do or just not have children because they cant handle them and use video games and such as a 'babysitter'
basically i agree with chaltab's statement about the anti-video game crowd ignoring the facts.
-Darth Simon