^ @Chock
I think the fine line on this matter comes down to "Can you separate reality from fiction/fantasy?"
If you can't, well you have problems and it's not the games that are causing it, it's just your mental system.
Most of the time though (in cases like kids shooting friends and blaming it on games) it comes down to looking for a scapegoat so you can move on without much fuss towards you at all. Like that teen who stole a car and shot an officer.
Blamed it on Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, but he was plenty old enough to know damn well that it was wrong to do such things all the way around. If he continues to claim he doesn't, then *obviously* he's mentally unstable and should be put away.
EDIT:
Don't forget that it's also the burden of the parents to make sure that their kids aren't exposed to violence and such too early. Wait till they get older, then let them on their way. Everyone has got to grow up and start taking charge of your life sometime. We have a rating system that is also to be followed. If parents don't pay attention to it and their child goes on a rampage "due to video games", the punish the parents and send the kid off to a ward for rehab, don't punish the game companies.
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