Fox News has posted a news article trying to link violent video games to the few shooting rampages around the country. Again, as per usual, the article is rife with speculation and implied links, but because the links cannot be verified by any single study, the attacks are just more of the same.
What Fox News, and other video game detractors, fail to recognize is study after study show video games reduce violence in children, giving them an outlet for their aggression. Sure, those involved with the shootings have played violent games, but they do so to reduce their violent aggressions. That is where the linkage occurs. For the ones who go off the deep end, though, those video games DON'T work, and that's the issue. These folks are mentally disturbed and the playing of video games only delays what is inevitable.
I disagree, though, with some of those attacking Fox News and others trying to do the exact same thing with gun ownership as Fox is doing with video games. Stop it. The problem is with these folks mentally. Playing video games or owning guns are symptoms, not the cause, of mental illness and poor family environments, perceived or real. Both sides are looking for scapegoats, when the cause points directly back to broken and disfunctional families or mental illnesses such as depression.