While it is just one opinion, American Sociological Association’s Context magazine (quite a mouthful) ran an article by sociologist Karen Sternheimer who is not convinced that video games are the root of all evil in this country. What she did was use crazy things like facts to compare how violent video game sales are rising while juvenile homicide arrests are down and how there has never been a conclusive study that proved any link between video games and violent behavior. It wasn’t as exciting as the displays the finger-waving politicians put on, but in this case she actually made a lot of sense.

PDF of the article ASANET.ORG

Putting blame on video games is in reality nothing more than a political stunt for most politicians. They aren’t as outraged as they want to believe. They’re just putting on a show to get themselves some press. They need an issue to be behind and this is an easy one for them because who in Washington is going to step up and applaud games that depict murder, rape and torture? No one.