Violent Video Games

In 2013, violence is everywhere.. from fictional movies to the real nightly news, unless you live under a rock theres no avoiding it. So whats different about violent video games? How do they desensitize us anymore than what we already encounter. Well for one, children and teens actually engage in these games, some may play them for hours a day. (where are there parents? my mom would have shut that down) The games encourage robbing, stealing, beating and killing. I assume most kids know that its not real and maintain the difference between right and wrong and just use the games as entertainment. But could they not find a more wholesome form of entertainment. Even so what about that 1 in 5000 kid who has no role models, no influences, no hope besides these violent video games and he takes them seriously. Should he/she be the reason for a ban on these games even though he/she is the minority. Probably not because then we would have to ban everything and put our kids in a bubble. The moral of the story is, violent video games are disturbing, but more importantly is how disturbing it would be for a person to have no other interaction/ supervision enough to be influenced by these games. Parents need to think about what they are buying for their children or how they are spending their time and make sure people have something productive going on in their life. Violent video games is just the scapegoat to the societal meltdown of the American Family and our responsibilities to raise children properly.