Video Games kill......?

It will always be fashionable for those who refuse to accept that we are an inherintly violent species to blame something else for our actions. We as a society refuse to take the blame ourselves. Instead we blame video games. When in fact violence directly inspired or enhanced by game playing plays no larger part than violence inspired by any other source, whether it's football fandom or religion. In fact, if we want something to blame our violent nature on, one need look no furthur than religion and all the actions carried out in its name day to day. Watch reports of suicide bombings and terrorists and jihadist. Religious extremes to be sure, but watch them and then tell me one murder by a mentally fucked up nineteen year old, who played GTA, but was already violently inclined is any worse than the violence filling the streets of Baghdad. Today the weak blame video games, whether statistics back them or not. Twenty years ago it was MTV. Before that rock music. Before that soemthing else. And tomorrow it will be something else. People have always been violent and always will be. To say games don't influence is wrong. But to say their influence is so big we must ban them is even worse. Why should one spoil it for the many? Why should the mental illness of one gamer cause the responsible ones to lose their source of entertainment? These murders were committed by people who were heading in this direction before they ever picked up a controller. To say it's the controller's fault is insulting to humanity. To think we have this higher intellect, this ability to think and yet we don't. We go for the easy answer, the quick fix and call it a day. That's slapping a band aid over a severed limb. The root of the problem goes far deeper than the fun of murdering pixilated prostitutes, it goes to something within us and that scares people.