Violence has always been in an issue with our daily lives, our society, and our youths. Violence tends to be an influential thing from many different factors. Maybe family issues that could cause break downs. Psychological problems can factor a lot as well. Sometimes a form of media or entertainment is blamed, when there are more important reasons to deal with. Video games are always blamed for violence in our youths, or soon to be violent. When in reality, while society, Government, parents, should stop pointing fingers and grasp the idea that easy accusations are not the way to go.

Parents have all the reasons to be upset over a violent video game. They don’t want their kids to be playing and enacting violence, even though it’s not real. Or a larger base, where parents want to protect more than just their own kids, instead all youth. It’s ok to be a good parent and worry about what their kid plays, it’s always been up to the parent what their children play. But that should not affect the rights of video game developers and what they create and the credit they get.

Some people, like officials in Government, parents creating specific groups that keep violent video games away from theirs and others children, go too far. Video games are art, they are protected by the first amendment, so developers have all the rights to make what they want to not have their work blocked from everyone. Which comes the main issue; The Government, and many groups run by parents, go way too far in trying to completely ban them, stating roughly that video games would ruin our society, make our children violent. One issue that came up, in California, had tried to ban minors and people to purchase for minors, violent, or otherwise mature games, making it completely illegal. After running this law through the Supreme Court, it was overturned because it violated the First amendment.

Parents are given the ball thanks to ESRB, which rates a video game in how old the person should play it, what reasons it was given the rating, basically everything in the game that might be unsuitable for a younger audience. That is all that should be needed to keep violent video games from our youths. All these groups and The Government over reacting and blaming something just because it has violence involved, does not mean it is to blame. Violence has always been in our society, and no matter what we do, it always will be.