Feature story (video game violence)

Do you play violent video games? Do you reanact killing sprees from Grand Theft Auto? No? I didnt think so, there is no case that has ever occured that leads anyone to believe that violent video games have ever caused someone to commit violent acts. The only time that anyone blames violent acts on video games is when they need an escape goat (something to place blame on). Some people criticize video games saying that they make kids prone to violent actions. However, many major studies by groups such as The Harvard Medical School Center for Mental Health "concluded that there's no data to support the notion that violent video games cause the kids who play them to act out violence in real life, contrary to the vast majority of media outlets that would have the public thinking otherwise (http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-9942041-1.html)." Kids use violent video games to relieve stress, A harvard phsycologist "steven Johnson"(one of the "fifty people who matter most on the internet") Concluded that violent video games have a positive effect on your brain. Kutner and Olson (Journalists) have documented their findings in Grand Theft Childhood: The Surprising Truth About Violent Video Games, Where they researched and stated in a nut shell that people who dont play violent video games are more violent then people who dont. "The U.S Secret Service intensely studied each of the 37 non-gang and non-drug-related school shootings and stabbings that were considered “targeted attacks” that took place nationally from 1974 through 2000. (Note how few premeditated school shootings there actually were during that 27-year time period, compared with the public perception of those shootings as relatively common events!) The incidents studied included the most notorious school shootings, such as Columbine, Santee and Paducah, in which the young perpetrators had been linked in the press to violent video games. The Secret Service found that that there was no accurate profile. Only 1 in 8 school shooters showed any interest in violent video games; only 1 in 4 liked violent movies."(Kutner and Olson)
With those facts, It is safe to say that media places blame on video games in order to explain crazy actions commited by mentally ill people. If video games caused people to act out what the see in them, wouldnt there be a guy in a "master chief" Halo suit going on killing sprees trying to see how many head shots he can get? Or some guy running around New York blowing everything up with grenades and shooting random people with machine guns like in Grand Theft Auto? Abviously not considering nothing remotely simular has EVER happened.
There is no evidence to correlate video game violence and real life violence. Blaming video games for violent actions is like blaming war in the middle east on the video game "Medal of Honor." Video games are not made fun by the notion that you are killing people, but by the notion that you are winning the game, doing cool looking action moves, looking at intense awesome graphics, and much more.