(contains cursing although blocked out)
violent videogames influence children to kill and hurt. I think this is pure 100% s***. If a parent really doesn't have the ability to actually teach a kid the fine line between reality and fantasy, why do they have kids? I was raised on violent games and some other stuff and I turned out to have 75% higher grades than jsut about everyone at my school, behave allot better, and not have the attitue "I can beat you up with my bare hands". Plus, I think it can boost's someones self confidence along with their ability to handle emergency situations. Also, if they are letting their kid buy these games with 13+ or higher on the box's label, why do they get it if they don't want their kids exposed to that kind of violence? It just shows how stupid they are to not look over the game just a little bit and instead just b**** to the companies and others that they saw their kids playing a game too violent then they would let them. I've played Doom since I was like 7 or 8 and knew that it was not ok to go around shooting people and stuff, and I see a bunch of these kids thinking they can beat anyone and everyone they see by themself. It's really stupid in my opinion. If they don't like their kid's playing these violent games, don't let them and atleast teach them not to and the fact that "just because in this game you can use a chaingun to rip someone up in to little tiny pieces that you are allowed to do that in real life".