Originally Posted by Platapus

"The only common denominator in all these tragic massacres that have plagued our country has been exposure to violent video games."

This is what tells me this is faulty reasoning. I am sure there are many common denominators between these people. If one is going to try to make the transition between correlation and causality, one has to account for all the common denominators.

“What sense does it make to forbid selling to a 13-year-old boy a magazine with an image of a nude woman, while protecting a sale to that 13-year-old of an interactive video game in which he actively, but virtually, binds and gags the woman, then tortures and kills her?”"

What video game is this? I might want to conduct some "independent research".