[LearsFool]

My point was that when a child ‘imagines’ he is playing soldier at war, he imagines the bombs, the smoke, the fire, the blood...all of it.

Children are not harmed by things they freely imagine. (Though they might be harmed by things that spring into their imaginations due to exposure to the wrong stuff.)

This is why, among books, movies, and video games, books are the most harmless. They require imagining, but it's completely at the reader's discretion. (Playing army with toy guns ranks about equal with books.) The same cannot be said for movies nor video games.

Since generations of boys have played at war games without traumatizing themselves into fits of murder, I fail to see/nor is there a shred of proof to be had that video games, a less mentally impressional form of input than one’s own imagination, will be a problem.

That's nothing but a straw man. If you're only concerned about preventing children from being traumatized into fits of murder, your concern for children is small indeed.

[Norm Lenhart]

Strawman? A fact proven time and again for thousands of years is a strawman? No scientific proof is a strawman? Your agenda appears to be unmasked. Or like libs you are going on emotion rather than available evidence.