I know I know, but I was being sarcastic. There aren't any proven side effects to "violent" videogames, (well, besides Columbine, but there were other aspects to that situation) right?
You have answered the million dollar question correctly, but I don't have any money so go away. The reason why people started to beleive that video games cause people to act violent and shoot up a classroom is because of people like Jack Thompson and his posse of soccer hags with sand in their vagina's. I would love to get into a debate with that idiot Jack Thompson, since his beleifs are invalid. First of all the people who coinidentally played video games when they went of their rocker and killed someone where already suffering from mental anguish. No point in babbling on, it is not like Jack is reading this.
I do remember reading somewhere that a twelve year old challenged Jack by sending him an email. A VERY well written email, about 500 words, giving amazing detail against Jack's views. Jack responded the way a mentally challenged person would do, a barley legible sentence. So the kid responded again, similarly with a long email, and it went back and forth. Anyway, it was clear that the kid won, since all Jack said was "go to a mental hospital" and other playground jokes. Does anybody have a link to this by the way?