I've noticed in a few different forums reporting on this that there are a percentage of gamers who think they're witty in pointing out that, while you can't completely blame games for violence you can't completely remove blame from them either. And that sounds very smart and round-minded and all, but what I think they are neglecting to include in that process of thought is that many things may lead to some violence (dating, baseball, heavy metal music to name a few) but those things aren't BLAMED for it. Why? Because as dumb as people are, they realize that there are things out there that can put a small amount of violence in a small amount of people a small amount of the time and to try and ban them all is stupid. I mean, things can, depending on many variables, affect your state of being in varying ways.

The reason why the people who did this study are going to the extreme and saying that there is very little (almost none, as equal to any of the other activities mentioned above) violence truly associated with this hobby is that it has been singled out as a scapegoat (unlike baseball and sex and bruce lee) and is in serious threat of crippling censorship. They are talking LONG TERM DAMAGE here, not getting mad at the halos and punching your pillow.

So to the two-siders out there playing devils advocate: We get it. Games may put a little violence in some one occasionally if the mood is right. You're brilliant. But the same can be said of many things - I personally can't stand leprechauns. They make me physically angry. And every time I try to cook an egg, and I fuck up and pop the yellow in the middle I beat my wife (just kidding, I dont have a wife and if I did, I wouldn't beat her, but I do get mad when I fuck up my eggs).