One of my favorite quotes I like to say about myself is that "music is the only thing that keeps me sane anymore". I bring it up because I think video games can be applied as well. Certain hobbies calm certain people, and without those they may actually be MORE violent.

Violence may not be a good thing to introduce to younger people, but that's why video games have an ESRB rating. Most people counter this, by saying "they're gonna find a way to play the game anyway." Not if people do their jobs. Games rated M cannot be sold to anyone under 17. The vendor, by law, cannot break this. The kids parents, as well, should pay attention to what their kids are playing, and refuse to buy the many thing or let them play anything that they deem too violent. You can make the same arguement about ANYTHING, that people who aren't supposed to do it are going to anyway. I work with several people who are underage to smoke cigarettes, yet they all do. And the ways I've heard them say how they get them, makes me think it's more of an underground thing than weed is.

Bottom line, games are rated what they are rated for a reason, and it's up to the people who sell the games and the parents of gamers to restrict what they play.

.......Or, let them play whatever. Maybe the violence in video games doesn't affect kids as much as people say. Especially ones who are a bit older, 12+. probably less violent than what they see on TV anyway.