Well, it's very true that psychological studies
did show an increase in violent tendicies after playing violent video games. This was years ago (April 2000) by the
American Psychological Association. In fact,
here's an article they published on their site.
"Violent video games provide a forum for learning and practicing aggressive solutions to conflict situations," said Dr. Anderson. "In the short run, playing a violent video game appears to affect aggression by priming aggressive thoughts. Longer-term effects are likely to be longer lasting as well, as the player learns and practices new aggression-related scripts that can become more and more accessible for use when real-life conflict situations arise."
So, through study and experience, it's very hard to dismiss that violent games might produce violent urges.
Does this mean we should take drastic measures? No, that would be absurd. If we were to tax/ban/regulate the sell of violent videogames, we'd have to follow suit with other aspects of day to day life that might cause violent tendicies such as:
- Violent movies
- Car alarms
- Extra loud commercials (I hate those so much)
- Traffic (or driving in general optimumly)
- Rap
- People I don't like
- Bears
- Yearly taxes
- Telemarketing (it kills)
- Global Warming
- Scientology
and finally
- Our own president!
And how American would that be?