I think it's funny that the same parents who support the media that hosts shows like "spongebob", "pokemon", "johnny test", which could all be easily taken out of context, are the ones who are against violent video games, which are marked "M for 17+ year olds".

I grew up watching pokemon, yet i don't go outside, imprison helpless animals, and force them to fight for me. That though would have never come into my head when i was 8/9/10/11/12 years old.

hell, even now, as the black metal/death metal loving, GTA/ FPS player i've become, i know that if a song like "hammer smashed face" by cannibal corpse comes on and says "I'll see you die at my feet, eternally I smash your face, Facial bones collapse as I crack your skull in half, Crushing, cranial, contents, Draining the snot, I rip out the eyes" I know better than to go "hur dur, better go bludgeon someone to death"

they say violent video games are bad and shit, without looking at WHO the antagonist is.

Black ops (1) is centered around the cold war, are they going to say "the u.s. was teaching terrible morals for fighting off the communist aggression?".
But yet, if you simulate the same effect via video game, it turns into some huge ordeal.

The people who do these kinds of things aren't write in the head, even by my standards, but it's not entirely their fault either.

I know it's cliche, but parents need to do their fucking part in raising their fuck ups.
Many others, including myself, get by in society without having a structured family, but if the parents need to TEACH their kids the difference between reality and fiction, and about the value of life.

Sometimes it's unavoidable, yes, but a lot of the times people kill others because they have pent up feelings they don't understand or are mentally ill/ emotionally unstable and haven't been taught how to handle it so they freak out and lose controll.

That's my 2 cents at least.