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If someone mentioned Video Games or Violent Video Games and children playing them what would your reaction be?

To keep it simple and to not waste much of you time because of it being around the holidays you could just say wether your reaction would be "Positive", "Negative", or "No Reaction"/"No Opinion" but If you wanted to give me a nice long explanition or just some detail thats fine to I would be happy with either. Just in case your curious im doing a presuasive report on Video games and Violent Video Games and their effects/potential effects (if any)on children/minors (Not Sure What my Stance is yet) so your praticipation would be appriciated as I will most likely use the results in my report.

Public Comments

I wouldn't care if the parents knew they were playing them, its no one else's business.
For violent video games on the whole, I probably wouldn't let my kids, if I ever have any, play them until they're around their early teens. I babysit these three kids, and they're great, I really love em, but they play some pretty violent video games and it's kinda creepy to hear little kids talk crazy about killing. It really is.
Negative ( I also feel that parents should monitor the games...are they too violent, etc?
positive
No reaction. I have kids and we play video games together, sometimes they are violent. My kids are well grounded though, they know the difference between real and make believe and they also know there are consequences for bad behavior. I don't think video games make kids violent. Music doesn't make kids violent. I mean a whole generation of kids grows up listening, playing, watching the same stuff and they don't all end up murdering rapists, so...
I am 17, but have been playing "violent" video games since I was about 14. My mother hates them, but she never seems to acknowledge the fact that I have never been in a fight, even when someone hits me. That has started to change, but only to a self-defence point, and because I had problems with self-esteem. There is no direct correlation between violent video games and violence in real life. If you're smart enough to know the difference, they are harmless. I think children younger than at least 14 shouldn't have access to them, but when I think of the politicians who are using this as political tool to ban them, it is infuriating. Even if you look at Columbine and the other school shootings, there are so many factors that contributed to wackiness that you can't just single out the fact that they played Doom! They were abused or neglected, and teased at school. I was teased too, but I dealt with it better. Do you know how many guys out there play Doom? And just how many of them have shot anyone? It depends on your definition of "minors", but banning them completely until you're eighteen is really stupid.