Video Game Violence A Scapegoat

We had to do this for English, so here goes. Don't think too much of my views on politicians (though most people would agree with me I'm sure) 

Video games blamed for violence

We've seen it time and time again. Murder-clad men stalking through the bloody ruins of humanity, armed with guns and hate. The screams of those torn from their nearest and dearest, the cold limbs and lost hopes draped in sickeningly white sheets. Yet within seconds, sorrow turns to accusation and hate. Politicians, seeking to heap the blame upon an unworthy scapegoat, find the closest target. Video Games. There are no trials looking into fractured psyches and cleft households, of supremacist propaganda and long-repressed grudges. In the jaundiced, tunnel-vision view of the high and mighty, the white collar cats who are in all truth are the most hypocritical and two-faced of them all, there can only be one culprit, and that is video games.

The Virginia Tech shooters were tied to video games within hours of their crime, even though no proper news had been announced.

The Columbine shooting was hammered by the media and politicians, who blamed the shooters' gaming habits.

Anders Brevik, the infamous mass murderer of 2011, played World of Warcraft, and after his atrocities that game was blamed, for he apparently trained on the game.

The Colorado Batman cinema shooter, was also allegedly influenced by video gamers.

These kind of generalisations are as bad as racism. How can the actions of a few men, each of whom were either mentally unstable, extremists or bore huge grudges, be used to condemn the millions who play games across the globe? It is the same as hating all Muslims following the Twin Towers, or the Japanese after Pearl Harbour, or Russians and Chinese during the Cold War. In a crime, only the perpetrator can be blamed. He alone makes the choice to kill, to take life in such a cowardly and weak manner, and if politicians can hijack these stories than they are as weak and cowardly as those they condemn. If games can be hit with the hypocritical hammer, than perhaps society is to blame as well, for raising such a biased, hateful and ignorant generation.