I've always believed that whatever our influence is, we are the masters of our own action

There are a lot of cases where people who are surrounded by bad neighbourhoods, and even bad friends, would often grow into good people in society  The same applies with violent video games, may it be console games like GTA (which has often been the target of the authorities as the prime suspect of teen crime influence) to MMOs (though I can't really recall the exact MMO that they pointed out as the reason why a kid stabbed someone) 

 I say that it's not the game that makes today's youth act violentlyIt's the lack of proper guidance and support from the parents themselves that pushes youth to do such atrocious actsIf a kid was properly guided by those who are near them (e.gparents) then I would confidently say that regardless of whatever game they put their hands on, they wouldn't come out as a psychopathic shooter or thief

  A classmate of mine in college did his thesis regarding the tendency of gamers to act violently when exposed to violent video gamesHis found out that violent games, does increase the tendency for the youth to act violently but they don't do it because video games push them to do it, other factors such as friends and whatnot are the ones they put their blame on  I personally think that blaming violent games as the reason why today's youth act violently is downright irresponsibleI say that it's the lack of proper guidance from the parents and those who influence the youth that pushes kids to act what they see.