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It's also important to differentiate the benefits of the internet with that of games.
Also, teen violence has actually gone down since the advent of video games. Like I have previously posted, violence has not increased, just the coverage of it. The common factors between teen shootings are 1)all males, and 2) depression. Just because someone has a kneejerk reaction and decides after a violent act to search the childs room and find a video game does not prove a correlation or causation.
Also, just to add a little something more, video games often serve as a social experience.
If you opened a newspaper back in the American Revolutionary War, it almost never would have been "Little Kid in Charleston Gets Kidnapped", or "Nut Shoots up Marketplace With Blunderbuss."
The most important question is always going to be - Did anyone ever teach you to think for yourself?