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Of course the main factor in the tragic Winnenden shootout was video games.

The Chronicle spells it out for us: "Teen in bloody spree a fan of video games." It's all the games. It always is. It wasn't that he was socially maladjusted, had a history of mental illness, had dropped out of counseling for depression, or that he had access to a pistol that his father kept lying about in the bedroom. The pivotal factor, and the only one worth repeatedly pointing out, is the video games.

Before evil capitalistic game companies started cranking out violent video games with no regard for society at large, young people never committed violent crimes. If this young man hadn't had access to video games that helped him plan and act out his violent urges, this never would have happened.

I'm naturally not a fan in general of violent games, but I do remember enjoying the fatalities in Mortal Kombat a lot when I was in high school. Giant pixelated gobs of blood flying across the screen? Woo hoo! Unfortunately the game made me arm myself with a large semi-circle of sharpened metal and filled me with violent urges to attack my classmates and random passers by at a Volkswagon dealership, so I had to stop going to the comic store and watching it.

I hope that we ban video games altogether so that violent crime can finally come to an end.