[Tirian]

Yes, they do need to be restricted - and have for a long time now.

For a sobering look at the issue of video games, see Army psychologist David Grossman's book "On Killing" ... the conditioning process present in many of these games makes the point-and-shoot reflex automatic.

Excerpt from review (bold mine): Grossman argues that the breakdown of American society, combined with the pervasive violence in the media and interactive video games, is conditioning our children to kill in a manner similar to the army's conditioning of soldiers: "We are reaching that stage of desensitization at which the infliction of pain and suffering has become a source of entertainment: vicarious pleasure rather than revulsion. We are learning to kill, and we are learning to like it."

Link at Amazon fyi:
link

http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Psychological-Cost-Learning-Society/dp/0316330116

[Quix]

Thanks thanks.

No trouble convincing me.

Interesting how so many forces are converging toward violence and chaos.

[discostu]

Problem with that of course is that Monday morning we got grim and sad proof that the modern video game generation can’t fight. There wasn’t a whole lot of fighting back at VTech, if video games really conditioned kids for violent responses then there should have at least been some thrown chairs or something.

[mysterio]

Yes, they do need to be restricted - and have for a long time now.

No, they don't. Government needs to be restricted.

If you don't want violent video games, don't buy them.